Kunal Kemmu's Mumbai-to-Bangkok caper picked up pace on Day 2 after a shaky opening, with trade now watching if Sunday can push the weekend past ₹7 crore.
Vibe isn't setting the box office on fire, but it's crawling in the right direction. Kunal Kemmu's action-comedy added Rs 2.70 crore nett on Saturday, according to Pinkvilla, a solid jump from its Day 1 numbers and enough to push the two-day total to roughly Rs 4.50 crore nett.
There's a small wrinkle in that Day 1 figure. Pinkvilla's own opening-day report pegged Vibe's first-day collection at Rs 1.6 crore nett, calling it a low start that needed a weekend surge to salvage the run. The outlet's Saturday update, though, puts Day 1 at closer to Rs 1.80 crore nett. Either way, the story is the same. Vibe opened soft and needed Saturday to show some life.
It did. And now the trade is looking at Sunday to decide what kind of opening weekend this actually turns into. If the growth trend holds, Vibe could close its first three days around Rs 7.50 crore nett, per Pinkvilla's tracking. That's not a number that screams hit, but for a film that stumbled out of the gate, it's a weekend that doesn't collapse either.
What's Vibe actually about? Kemmu plays one half of a mismatched pair, Hardik and Bugs, whose friendship gets tested after a date at a planetarium goes sideways. From there it turns into something considerably weirder. The two get pulled into a covert operation run by a figure called Madam H, and the film follows them from Mumbai to Bangkok as their instincts, their timing, and their friendship keep landing them in trouble they didn't sign up for.
Kemmu isn't just fronting the film. He's directed it, written it, and co-produced it, which makes the box office numbers a little more personal than usual for him. The supporting cast reads like a genre mash-up in itself: Sparsh Shrivastava, Preity Zinta, Vanshika Dhir, Yashpal Sharma and Dinesh Lal Yadav round out the ensemble, spanning Bollywood mainstream, Bhojpuri cinema's biggest star, and a City Lights-era leading man.
The bigger question for Vibe isn't really Saturday. It's whether a low-opening buddy comedy can find legs once the weekend novelty wears off and it's up against whatever else is holding screens on a regular Monday. Films that open under Rs 2 crore on Day 1 rarely get long theatrical windows, no matter how the growth curve looks over two days.
Sunday's numbers will tell us more than Saturday's did. If Vibe closes the weekend near that Rs 7.50 crore mark, expect the conversation to shift quickly to word of mouth and whether it can survive weekday drop-offs before bigger releases start crowding it out.
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