After six days’ run at the Box Office, Shashanka Ghosh-directorial Veere Di Wedding has now entered the Rs 50-crore club. The Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania-starrer has made its own space at the box office.
Trade analyst and film critic Taran Adarsh shared a post and disclosed the total collections of the film so far. The post read as, “#VeereDiWedding crosses HALF-CENTURY… Biz likely to be affected today [Thu] due to #Kaala and #JurassicWorld… Fri 10.70 cr, Sat 12.25 cr, Sun 13.57 cr, Mon 6.04 cr, Tue 5.47 cr, Wed 4.87 cr. Total: ₹ 52.90 cr. India biz”.
The film also made its way to the top five openers of 2018 and currently ranks third on the list, headed by Padmaavat and Baaghi 2.
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Producer Ekta Kapoor on Wednesday (June 6) took to her Twitter handle and tweeted, “We were gonna break even at (Rs) 23 crores and we did 36 in the weekend! #VeereDiWedding weekday trends are shocking too since it’s an A film! It’s radical and has had its share of brickbats! But the love is far outnumbered!”
We were gonna break even at 23 cr n We did 36 in d weekend ! #VeereDiWedding weekday trends r shocking too since it’s an A film! It’s radical n has had its share of brickbats!but d love is far outnumbered!
— Ekta Kapoor (@ektaravikapoor) June 6, 2018
In another tweet, she wrote, “Next time, I hope when a project with an all-women cast is made, we are used as an example to get it greenlit! And the disparity in pay is always justified with ‘women can’t open a film’, this (Veere Di Wedding) with ‘Raazi’ shud shut that myth forever AMEN.”
Next time i hope when a project with an all women cast is made we r used As an example to get it green lit! N disparity in pay is always justified with ‘women can’t open a film’this with ‘raazi’ shud shut that myth forever AMEN
— Ekta Kapoor (@ektaravikapoor) June 6, 2018
The film revolves around four friends Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor Khan), Avin (Sonam Kapoor), Meera (Shikha Talsania) and Sakshi (Swara Bhasker).
Veere Di Wedding is produced by Rhea Kapoor and directed by Shashanka Ghosh which was released on 1 June 2018.