Day one box office receipts for Sitaare Zameen Par: With his most recent film, Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan is making a comeback to the big screen. Although the film’s producers have made a concerted effort to promote it on social media, it appears that the outcome has fallen short of Aamir’s expectations. According to industry tracker Sacnilk, the movie grossed just Rs 11.5 crore on its first day of release, despite having over 9500 showings and little competition in theaters.

In order to promote Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir has been reminding viewers that they won’t have the opportunity to see the movie on a streaming service for a few weeks, thus this may be their only opportunity to do so in the near future. This was his method of promoting the theater industry because he thinks that the 8-week window that OTT platforms adhere to has severely hurt the movie industry’s business model since the pandemic.

Since the movie has gotten mixed reviews and even the opening day receipts aren’t as high as he might have wanted, it remains to be seen if his gamble will be successful. The “spiritual sequel” to 2007’s Taare Zameen Par has performed better than the most recent booking reports, which predicted the film would gross less than Rs 10 crore on its first day of release.

The morning and afternoon shows scored about 16% occupancy, but the evening and night shows did marginally better with 20.21% and 32.50% occupancy, respectively, resulting in an average occupancy rate of 21.34% for all Hindi shows. The average occupancy of the film was only about 12 persons in each theater, according to an advance booking report by Sacnilk that included the total number of presentations scheduled and tickets sold.

Similar numbers of shows were shown on the first day of Aamir’s last movie, 2022’s Laal Singh Chaddha, which made about Rs 11.7 crore but didn’t do well at the box office. The film earned Rs 61.36 crore over its run. Taare Zameen Par, which was similarly advertised, earned Rs 63 crore during its run over eighteen years ago.

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Interestingly, despite the fact that both Sittare Zameen Par and Laal Singh Chaddha are remakes, the latter has a somewhat smaller budget, and since Aamir is the only well-known actor on the poster, he is the only one performing all the labor. Aamir and the team will be hopeful that this weekend goes better for them than it did the previous few times after letting go of massive OTT deals and discussing the restoration of the authentic theater-watching experience.