Monday Updates: Patiala House Steady At Lower Range

Patiala House had steady collections on Monday of around 2.75 crore nett as per early estimates. The drop is around 35% from Friday but the problem is that Friday was low and although Monday is steady the Monday collections are still pretty low. East Punjab and Delhi/UP were best with 25-30% drop from Friday while rest of country fell 40-45%.

If the rest of the weekdays remain steady then the film could get close to 25 crore nett first week otherwise it will finish at 23-24 crore nett. An Akshay Kumar film is expected to get much more than 25 crore nett in the weekend let alone the week.

Two years back films like Kambakkht Ishq and De Dana Dan were doing the Patiala House first week business in three days and considering the healthy market expansion over last two years these are low numbers for Patiala House.

Patiala House does not look like going anywhere theatrically but producers managed to make the film at a reasonable cost thanks to Akshay Kumar on profit sharing deal and rebate that UK government gives for films shot in the country which will mean small losses for some distributors as a worst case scenario while producers have good profits.

Source : BOI