Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia's forest drama has crossed Rs 61 crore in a fortnight but the Drishyam The Conclusion juggernaut has crushed its second-week momentum.
Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia's The Vvaan is running out of road. The film added just Rs 65 lakh on its second Thursday, per Pinkvilla's tracking, closing out a second week that brought in Rs 11.35 crore. That's a 75 per cent drop from week one. Fourteen days in, the cume stands at Rs 61.10 crore nett.
The villain here isn't a bad second weekend. It's Drishyam The Conclusion, which landed in the middle of The Vvaan's run and ate whatever screens and footfall were left on the table. Ajay Devgn's sequel has been pulling numbers in the hundreds of crores domestically, and smaller releases around it were always going to feel the squeeze. The Vvaan felt it hard.
Here's the thing though. Nobody walked into this film expecting fireworks. There was no real pre-release buzz, no trailer that broke the internet, nothing to suggest a blockbuster opening. Against that backdrop, Rs 61 crore in two weeks isn't a disaster. It's a film quietly doing its job without anyone watching too closely.
But quiet and decent isn't the same as a hit. Trade estimates now have The Vvaan finishing its theatrical run somewhere around Rs 65 crore, and at that number it won't earn a Clean Hit verdict. It'll likely settle into the space just below that line, a film that did fine business without crossing into the territory that gets it remembered as a success story a year from now.
Directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra, who made his name with Panchayat, The Vvaan: Force of the Forest follows an engineer named Rishi who returns to his ancestral village in Bihar to sort out a property dispute, only to get pulled into a fight to protect a sacred forest from a development project. Myth, land rights, family history, all stitched into one plot. The supporting cast is stacked: Anup Soni, Sunil Grover, Shweta Tiwari, Maniesh Paul.
For Sidharth Malhotra, who's had a mixed run at the box office lately, this lands in the okay-not-great bracket. Not a flop he has to explain away, not a win he gets to crow about either. For Tamannaah, who's been shuttling between Hindi and South projects, it's another credit in a year that's kept her consistently busy without a standout hit to anchor it.
The film is now in its last legs theatrically, per trade trackers, and the coming week should settle the final number. Whether exhibitors keep giving it screens past that or quietly let it fade is the only question left to answer.
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