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The Rohit Shetty film, Cirkus, has taken a shocking opening at the box office in India. It was a no show for the comic caper nationwide, with shows even getting cancelled at multiple locations – right from single screens to multiplexes – due to no audience. According to early estimates, Cirkus is looking at an opening day figure in the range of Rs. 6.35 to 7.35 crores. The opening is half of what the film should have ideally done on its opening day.

The numbers are low all across the board, and even the loyal Rohit Shetty audience base didn’t come to give the film a chance at the ticket window. Places like Mumbai and Gujarat too had shows running  with minimal audience on board. To add on to the woes of the film, the talk is also negative, which means, it’s more or less curtains down.

The Rohit Shetty film, Cirkus, has taken a shocking opening at the box office in India. It was a no show for the comic caper nationwide, with shows even getting cancelled at multiple locations – right from single screens to multiplexes – due to no audience. According to early estimates, Cirkus is looking at an opening day figure in the range of Rs. 6.35 to 7.35 crores. The opening is half of what the film should have ideally done on its opening day.

The numbers are low all across the board, and even the loyal Rohit Shetty audience base didn’t come to give the film a chance at the ticket window. Places like Mumbai and Gujarat too had shows running  with minimal audience on board. To add on to the woes of the film, the talk is also negative, which means, it’s more or less curtains down.

Here’s some good news for all RRR fans! SS Rajamouli’s movie has made it to the shortlists for the Oscars 2023. The film’s song Naatu Naatu has been shortlisted in the best song category. It is now among the 15 songs which have been selected out of 81 in total. Besides Naatu Naatu, other songs in the list include ‘Nothing Is Lost’ from Avatar: The way Of Water, ‘Lift Me Up’ from Blank Panther: Wakanda Forever and ‘Hold My Hand’ from Top Gun: Maverick among others.

RRR was not a part of India’s official entry for the Oscars but was separately submitted under the ‘For your consideration’ campaign for 14 categories. “We’re grateful to each & every one who loved our film and cheered us over the past few months. You made this journey possible. We applied to The Academy for Oscars consideration in general category. We wish our RRR family the best and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for making this possible. Here’s to continuing to win hearts and entertain audience worldwide," the makers said in a statement while submission.

India vs Bangladesh, 2nd Test Match, Day 1 Highlights:India ended Day 1 of the ongoing second and final Test at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, at 19/0 after bad light forced early stumps. KL Rahul and Shubman Gill are standing unbeaten at the crease as visitors trail by 208 runs. Earlier, four-wicket hauls from Umesh Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin helped India bundle out Bangladesh at 227. For Bangladesh, Mominul Haque played a brilliant knock of 84 runs before he was dismissed by Ashwin. For India, Jaydev Unadkat scalped two wickets. (SCORECARD)

India (Playing XI):KL Rahul(c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj

In just five days, Avatar: The Way of Water has crossed 150 crores at the box office. The film could well have done it on Monday itself but then missed it by just 4 crores. The shortfall was taken care of on Tuesday when a lot more was earned all over again, what with 16 crores* being accumulated. The fall from Monday to Tuesday is reasonable and this further establishes that the film will stay in to be in double digits right till the end of the week.

Of course, when Avatar: The Way of Water opens at 41 crores then a double-digit right into the second weekend is anyways expected. However that’s more with a Hindi film since when it comes to Hollywood, there have been a few instances before when the opening weekend is extraordinary but then the weekdays start slipping big time. Here too the fall has come because ideally, at least the film should have stayed in the 20s. However, even though that hasn’t happened, the collections are still quite good, hence ensuring a bountiful first week.