Till about Monday, it seemed that Jhund was well on course to go past the Badhaai Do lifetime of 20.62 crores.

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After all, it had done some kind of fair business over the second weekend and hence a bit of a stability in couple of weeks

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Jhund is a box office underperformer and it would be interesting to see if its OTT response turns out to be better than Amitabh Bachchan’s last release, Gulabo Sitabo.

However, this was also the time when the mayhem called The Kashmir Files started. There was ‘toofaan’ all around

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As collections for the Vivek Agnihotri not just ended up hitting the double digit mark but continued to rise more and more right till Thursday.

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The film couldn’t connect much from there till Thursday and as a result the two week total stands at 17.25 crores.

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. What seemed like a cakewalk towards the 20 crores mark will now require some luck going in the film’s favour since there is so much more choice available for audiences

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Notably The Kashmir Files and then the new release Bachchhan Paandey. Moreover, between the two films, majority of screens have already been occupied.

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