Rajkummar Rao’s courtroom drama Prahaar: The Ujjwal Nikam Story collected ₹3.15 crore on Saturday, as reported by News18. The figure takes its two-day India net total to ₹5.50 crore, following a ₹2.35 crore opening on Friday.
The opening-weekend picture
For a serious Hindi film, the significant number on day two is not the size of the jump but its direction. Prahaar moved up rather than slipping from its opening figure. In a marketplace where front-loading is common, that is a steadier signal than the headline alone suggests.
- Friday: ₹2.35 crore
- Saturday: ₹3.15 crore
- Two-day India net total: ₹5.50 crore
The film is being screened alongside Yami Gautam’s Nayyi Navelli, Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 and Vijay Deverakonda’s Ranabaali. That competition makes a day-two hold harder to dismiss.
What the film is carrying
Directed by Avinash Arun and produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films, Prahaar is a legal drama drawn from public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam’s career. It touches the 1993 Bombay bombings and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and it fills its cast with recognisable faces: Rajkummar Rao as Nikam, Wamiqa Gabbi as Jyoti Nikam, Lalit Prabhakar as Ajmal Kasab, and Jaideep Ahlawat, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sikandar Kher and Nassar in key supporting roles.
The courtroom has long been one of Hindi cinema’s favoured stages for moral argument. Here the stakes are drawn from real prosecutions rather than fictional ones, which raises both interest and expectation.
Why Monday matters
News18 Showsha’s review awarded three out of five stars and wrote that the film was “all over the place,” calling it a “muddled mishmash of storylines.” That criticism points to a real tension: a diffuse narrative can make the film harder for audiences to recommend, even when individual scenes land.
If collections hold on Monday, it will suggest that word of mouth is overcoming the structural weaknesses critics noted. If they fall, the first weekend will look front-loaded and the courtroom drama will depend heavily on its first audience rather than a second wave.
For Bollywood Chronicle readers, the ongoing question is whether a fact-based Hindi courtroom story can convert respect for its subject into weekday ticket sales.
Source: News18
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