'Bachchan Pandey' box office: Akshay Kumar's movie shows steady growth
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Akshay Kumar's every movie has been a ray of hope for all the theatre's owners in the post-pandemic world with his movies like 'Bell Bottom', 'Sooryvanshi', which had earned big numbers and managed to bring the audience back to the theatres. Now, his much-awaited movie 'Bachchhan Paandey' which was finally released on the festive weekend, has opened with good numbers, despite tough competition from Vivek Agnihotri's 'The Kashmir Files'. On the first day, the movie collected 13.25 crores INR. However, the movie failed to break the record of Akshay’s 'Sooryavanshi' Day 1 box office collection during the pandemic era.The movie which was expected to show good growth on the second day witnessed a slow uprise and settled as the second choice of the audience after Kashmir files.Directed by Farhad Samji, the action-comedy film `Bachchhan Paandey` is a remake of the Tamil film `Jigarthanda` that had released in 2014. `Bachchhan Paandey`, which is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and written by Nischay Kuttanda and Samji, also features Pankaj Tripathi, Prateik Babbar, Abhimanyu Singh, Snehal Daabbi, and Saharsh Kumar Shukla.The film`s story revolves around an aspiring director (Kriti) who wants to make a film on a deadly gangster (Akshay).