Samrat Prithviraj field workplace assortment Day 2: Akshay Kumar movie going regular, earns Rs 23.2 crore

Akshay Kumar’s epic historic movie Samrat Prithviraj had a suitable second day in theatres because it jumped a good bit from its opening on Friday. While the movie had grossed Rs 10.70 crore on Friday, it collected Rs 12.50 crore on Saturday as per Box Office India. Its complete is Rs 23.2 crore now.

The movie, written and directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, is predicated on the life and occasions of Rajput emperor Prithviraj Chauhan. The story is predicated on Chand Bardai’s epic poem Prithviraj Raso.

Manushi Chhillar, Sanjay Dutt, Sonu Sood, Manav Vij, Ashutosh Rana and Sakshi Tanwar additionally star.

The movie opened as per expectations and is now going regular. It has a high-budget, nevertheless, and desires sturdy word-of-mouth to proceed accumulating respectable cash as its critiques are largely combined. It doesn’t assist that it opened in opposition to Kamal Haasan’s biggie Vikram and Adivi Sesh-starrer Major.

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Many have criticised Samrat Prithviraj for the massive hole (29 years) between the ages of two leads. Chillar defended the distinction by telling Indianexpress.com, “I would like to point out that our characters (Prithviraj and Sanyogita) also had an age difference. Irrespective of who is older than whom, it doesn’t matter if the woman or man is older, the cast should be appropriate. When you are an actor, you should look like the character, irrespective of the character being younger or older than your actual age.”

The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta gave the movie 2 stars and wrote, “What Chandraprakash Dwivedi has done is to soup up the legend so that it is in sync with the dominant national mood. Prithviraj is representative of a Bharat when it was pristine, pure, unpolluted. How did a director who has also made the astonishingly subversive ‘Mohalla Assi’ achieve this switcheroo? (Dwivedi has been on record to say that this is his passion project, and he has been trying to get it off the ground for a decade and more). Or is it just a question of being expedient?”