Photo via Bollywood Hungama - Box Office AnalysisThe film added just Rs 1.04 crore on its fifth day, a 15.56% bump over Monday's collapse, but it's still short of the Rs 9 crore mark.
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Vibe is having the kind of week that makes trade watchers reach for spreadsheets rather than superlatives.
The film opened on Friday with Rs 1.65 crore, a modest start that Still, built through the weekend. Saturday saw a 46.06% jump to Rs 2.41 crore, and Sunday added another 4.56% to close at Rs 2.52 crore. That gave Vibe an opening weekend of Rs 6.58 crore, respectable enough for a film without a marquee push behind it.
Then came Monday.
Collections fell off a cliff, down 64.29% to Rs 0.90 crore. That figure wasn't just a weekday dip, it landed 45.45% below the film's own opening-day number, according to Bollywood Hungama's tracking. For a film still finding its footing in week one, that's the kind of correction that tends to decide whether a run stretches into a second weekend or quietly folds.
Tuesday offered a small mercy. Vibe collected Rs 1.04 crore, up 15.56% over Monday, which isn't a lot in absolute terms but matters because it broke what could have been a second straight fall. The recovery pushed the film's total past the Rs 8.5 crore mark, landing at Rs 8.59 crore by the end of Day 5.
Do the math and Vibe is sitting Rs 0.41 crore short of Rs 9 crore. Not a milestone anyone throws a party for, but for a film navigating this particular week, it's the next number on the horizon.
What happens over Wednesday and Thursday will tell the real story. A film that drops 64% on its first Monday and only manages a 15.56% bounce back the next day hasn't exactly found stable ground, it's found a pause. Whether that pause turns into a proper weekday plateau or another slide depends on word of mouth doing some heavy lifting in the coming days.
There's no second-weekend cushion here yet either, no franchise pull, no awards buzz to fall back on. Vibe's fate over the next few days rests almost entirely on whether Tuesday's uptick was a genuine correction or a one-day blip before the numbers dip again. The film's team will be watching Wednesday's figures closely, because right now the difference between a decent opening week and a forgettable one comes down to fractions of a crore.
This article was written by the CutMirchi desk from the reporting above. Facts are attributed to their original publishers.
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