Kartik Aaryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 trumps Akshay Kumar’s Samrat Prithviraj in Day 1 business at BO, KGF 2 still tops ticket

It seems that despite having massive promotions and a mega budget, Akshay Kumar starrer Samrat Prithviraj has not been able to beat Kartik Aaryan’s horror comedy Bhool Bulaiyaa 2 in Day 1 business at the box office.

Kartik Aaryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 has taken the box office numbers by storm. Earlier today film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter to share the highest Day 1 earners at the box office. Adarsh tweeted that Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 not only bested Samrat Prithviraj, but Bachchhan Paandey and Gangubai Kathiawadi at the box office as well.

According to Adarsh, while Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 earned Rs 14.11 crore on Day 1, Bachchan Paandey earned Rs 13.25 crore while Samrat Prithviraj and Alia Bhatt starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi raked in Rs 10.70 crore and Rs 10.50 crore respectively.

With Advance bookings for Samrat Prithviraj treaded slowly with only 37000 tickets sold, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 has taken over the trade box with over 1.05 lakh sale of tickets.

However, Adarsh further tweeted that the top Day 1 business at the box office has still been done by two dubbed movies – Prashanth Neel’s KGF: Chapter 2 and SS Rajamouli’s RRR. While the Yash hand Srinidhi Shetty starrer had earned Rs 53.95 crore on day 1, Ram Charan and Jr NTR’s film raked in Rs 20.07 crore.