Dhurandhar: The Revenge sold 125K tickets at the two national chains in its first 24 hours of sales. Technically, it’s not the first 24 hours of sales for the film, because it has been on sale for previews for a week now, but it was the first 24 hours on sale for the opening day.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge ranks as the second-highest seller in these chains, just behind Jawan (150K). Notably, the film has sold 290K tickets for previews in these chains so far. Out of those 290K, surely at least 100K would have booked the film for its opening day in 24 hours, if not 200K or maybe even all of them. We would never know for sure, but what is sure that it would have blown off the record of Jawan.
Typically, ticket sales slow down after the first big day of advance. Dhurandhar: The Revenge will also slow down, but perhaps to a lesser degree than the others. The film has already been on sale for a week now, which would have burned off that super early ticket booking demand, which drives the first 24 hours sale, meaning the fall will be lower, given boost was lower.
Looking ahead, the first target for it is to beat the record held by Pathaan of 545K tickets for its opening day. It appears well-positioned to take that. Then it needs to be seen how high it can go. The overall India record is held by Avengers: Endgame, which sold over a million tickets at the national chains. Back then, it was four national chains, three counting PVR and INOX as one. Carnival Cinemas went defunct post-COVID, but many of those cinemas were taken over by the remaining two chains. That is probably going to be tough because the film will be burning off a lot of first day first show watchers’ demand with previews. Of course, inclusive of previews, it will be a lot easier, in fact, very likely as well.
The top highest first 24 hours ticket sellers at national chains for Bollywood are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Tickets |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jawan | 150,000 |
| 2 | Dhurandhar: The Revenge | 125,000 (+ 290,000 previews) |
| 3 | Pathaan | 122,000 |
| 4 | Sultan | 100,000 |
The Sultan numbers in the list above are estimates. These four are most likely the only Bollywood films to sell more than 100K tickets at the national chains. There might be some other film before 2022 missing from the list due to the lack of data. The national chains advance tracking became popular only in recent years.
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