Kunal Kemmu's action-comedy is holding at a trickle rather than a flood, with Wednesday's numbers down 9% from Tuesday and occupancy stuck below 12%.
Six days in, and Vibe isn't crashing, but it isn't running away with anything either.
According to Sacnilk figures reported by Free Press Journal, Kunal Kemmu's action-comedy picked up ₹1 crore in India on Wednesday, September 23, its sixth day in theatres. That's a 9.1% dip from Tuesday's ₹1.10 crore. Not a cliff. Just gravity.
The film opened on September 18 and has now pulled in ₹10.45 crore net in India. Add taxes and the gross climbs to ₹12.48 crore. Overseas, Vibe has added ₹1.95 crore across its run, with ₹20 lakh of that coming on Day 6 alone. Put the domestic and overseas gross together and you get a worldwide total of ₹14.43 crore after six days.
The shape of the run tells its own story. Vibe opened modestly at ₹1.70 crore on Friday, then actually grew over the weekend, hitting ₹2.75 crore on Saturday and ₹3 crore on Sunday, still its best single day. That's the pattern distributors like to see. Word of mouth pulling people in rather than pushing them away.
Then Monday happened. Collections fell to ₹90 lakh, the usual weekday correction every film takes after a festive first weekend. Tuesday brought a small recovery to ₹1.10 crore, and Wednesday settled at that ₹1 crore mark with 2,431 shows running nationwide. Hindi 2D occupancy on Wednesday sat at 11.55%, which is thin by any standard but not unusual for a mid-week slot without a holiday to lean on.
So where does that leave Vibe? Comfortably in the mid-crore zone, neither a flop story nor a breakout. The film has drawn mixed-to-positive reviews since release, and that critical middle ground is showing up in the numbers, a steady trickle rather than a flood.
Written and directed by Kemmu, Vibe stars him alongside Preity Zinta, Sparsh Shrivastava and Vanshika Dhir. It's positioned as a spin-off of Kemmu's earlier directorial, with his character Hardik carrying over as a special appearance link between the two films. That connective tissue was clearly meant to pull in an existing audience, though the box office suggests it's a slow build rather than an instant crossover.
The real test now is whether Vibe can find a second wind over the coming weekend or simply plateau into a quiet exit. With no major new Hindi release muscling in immediately, the film has a clear runway. Whether it uses it is the only number worth watching from here.
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