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Everything the desk has filed on Daayra.
Viewers of Daayra are drawing parallels between its fictional police chiefs and real‑life officers, citing the 2019 Hyderabad encounter and the career of IPS Manzil Saini.
Daayra, billed as Meghna Gulzar's spiritual successor to Talvar, has opened to a lukewarm critical reception and weak box office numbers, according to Rediff, continuing a mixed patch after Chhapaak and Sam Bahadur.
Daayra's Day 6 collection of Rs 0.37 crore pushed its total past Rs 5 crore, but the weekday slide continues. Meanwhile Hanuman Ansh, 48 days in, sits just Rs 20.67 crore short of Rs 300 crore.
‘Vibe’, starring Kunal Kemmu and Preity Zinta, posted a modest rise on its fifth day, reaching a net of 9.5 crore in India, yet its hefty 35‑40 crore budget keeps it in the red.
Daayra's Tuesday collection matched Monday's Rs 50 lakh instead of climbing, leaving the Meghna Gulzar film's five-day domestic net at Rs 5.50 crore against a reported Rs 50-60 crore budget.
Hanuman Ansh added Rs 4.64 crore on Day 47 to near the Rs 300 crore mark, while Daayra inched to Rs 4.69 crore after a rough transition from weekend to weekdays.
Resident Evil topped India's weekend box office over Meghna Gulzar's Daayra and Kunal Kemmu's Vibe, while Haiwaan flopped hard and Hanuman Ansh crossed Mirzapur's total collections.
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran's Daayra collapsed on its first Monday, dropping 74.3 percent to Rs 45 lakh net, leaving its reported Rs 55 crore budget far out of reach so far.
Daayra's opening weekend numbers looked steady, but Monday collections crashed 66% to under Rs 50 lakh, per Bollywood Hungama. The film's four-day total stands at Rs 4.24 crore domestic.
Meghna Gulzar has responded to comparisons between her 2018 film Raazi and Dhurandhar, saying both are equally patriotic even though their storytelling styles are worlds apart.
Daayra collected roughly 5.6 crore net in its opening weekend, the lowest start for a Kareena‑led film in the past 15 years, trailing even the modest ‘The Buckingham Murders’.
Kunal Kemmu's Vibe closed its opening weekend somewhere between Rs 6.63 crore and Rs 7.35 crore depending on which tracker you trust, with word-of-mouth doing it no favours against rival release Daayra.
Meghna Gulzar's Daayra collected Rs 3.77 crore in its opening weekend, rising from a soft Friday before nearly flatlining on Sunday. The film's weekday run now decides how far it travels.
Daayra's first Sunday brought no relief, with the Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran crime thriller collecting the same ₹1.75 crore it made on Day 2, taking its three-day total to roughly ₹4.50 crore net.
Meghna Gulzar's Daayra grew 60% on its second day after a muted Friday opening, with trade estimates for the two-day total ranging between Rs 2.6 and 3.1 crore against a reported Rs 55 crore budget.
Daayra opened on September 18 with a modest ₹1.15 crore, but a BOGO ticket deal helped it pull in ₹2.18 crore on day two, pushing the two‑day total to ₹3.33 crore amid mixed critical feedback.
Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor and Prithviraj Sukumaran, saw its Saturday collections nearly double after a slow Friday. The Meghna Gulzar-directed thriller now eyes a ₹6-crore-plus opening weekend, with Drishyam 3 looming on October 2.
Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran as officers on opposite sides of a police encounter case, opened soft despite glowing reviews, with trade trackers giving conflicting day one numbers against a reported Rs 50-60 crore budget.
Daayra, Meghna Gulzar's new crime thriller starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Kareena Kapoor Khan, releases September 18 with a gripping first half that gives way to a second half critics call directionless and underpowered.
Daayra held its premiere screening on September 17, a day ahead of release, with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Prithviraj Sukumaran and director Meghna Gulzar among those who turned up for the red carpet.
Daayra and Vibe hit screens on September 18 with credits nobody expected. Karan Johar gets a special thanks for parting with a title, while Hrithik Roshan and Huma Qureshi get roped into an in-character joke.
Ahead of Daayra's release, Meghna Gulzar spoke about directing Irrfan Khan, Vicky Kaushal, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Tabu and Sushmita Sen, revealing which actors needed no instruction at all.
Filmfare's review of Meghna Gulzar's Daayra calls it gritty and compelling, with Prithviraj Sukumaran's vigilante cop overshadowing Kareena Kapoor Khan's by-the-book DCP in a drama that echoes the 2019 Telangana encounter case without directly adapting it.
Parvathy Thiruvothu is playing three cops across three languages at once, a constable in the hit Pradhama Drishtya Kuttakkar, a dubbed voice for Kareena Kapoor Khan in Daayra, and a DCP in Dhootha 2.
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran met the press and students in Delhi ahead of Daayra's September 18 release, with Kareena posting photos from the event in a pink floral saree.
Prithviraj Sukumaran, who stars in Meghna Gulzar's Daayra, opened up about the gap between Malayalam cinema's informal set culture and Bollywood's layered, agency-driven process ahead of the film's September 18 release.
Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran as opposing cops, has been passed by the censor board with almost no cuts. The crime thriller releases in theatres on September 18.
CBFC has passed Kunal Kemmu's Vibe with an A certificate, muting a single abusive word and adding a drug disclaimer while leaving all action and romantic scenes exactly as shot. The film releases September 18, the same day as Daayra.
Kareena Kapoor Khan's Daayra and Kunal Kemmu's Vibe both received 'A' certificates from the CBFC on September 11, days before their September 18 release, with Vibe's adult rating surprising many in the trade.
Kareena Kapoor Khan says she regularly takes phones away from sons Taimur and Jeh, calling herself the stricter parent on digital access while Saif Ali Khan pushes back on how strict she gets.