Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel’s film Gadar 2, directed by Anil Sharma, was a success at the box office. Movie has earned 500 rupees. The film was released in theaters on 11 August.
According to initial estimates given by Sacnilk.com, Gadar 2 earned Rs 2.5 crore on Monday. So far the film’s earnings have gone up to 503.67 crores. However, the pace of earning slowed down on Monday.
The highest single day collection of Gadar 2 was Rs 55 crore on Independence Day. While the movie had previously collected 284.63 crores in VK. Business of Rs 134.47 crore was done in the second week and Rs 63.35 crore in the third week.
The sequel to the 2001 superhit film Gadar Ek Prem Katha, Gadar 2 has performed well in theatres, especially on single screens, since its release on August 11. The film had an opening of 40 crores.
In Gadar 2, Tara Singh has to go across the border to Pakistan to save his son Jeeta, played by Utkarsh Sharma. Utkarsh also worked in Gadar.
Talking about the film, Anil Sharma had said in an interview with PTI, “Making a mass entertainer is not easy. This is difficult because you have to portray this larger-than-life hero in a way that makes everything he does seem realistic as well as entertaining.
Anil Sharma had said, while making a realistic film you can talk to the person and other people on whom the story is based, but adding a hero to a film is challenging.
Sunny Deol on the success of Gadar 2 said, when he made the second part, he did not know that it would be liked so much by the audience. He said that even though two entire generations have passed, fans are as excited as they were the first time.