{"id":641511,"date":"2026-05-01T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:25:10","slug":"ek-din-box-office-collection-day-1-junaid-khan-sai-pallavi-film-collects-less-than-%e2%82%b91-crore-fails-to-beat-loveyapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641511\/","title":{"rendered":"Ek Din box office collection day 1: Junaid Khan, Sai Pallavi film collects less than \u20b91 crore; fails to beat Loveyapa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ek Din box office collection day 1: Sunil Pandey’s romantic drama Ek Din was released in theatres on May 1. The film starring Junaid Khan<\/a> and Sai Pallavi<\/a> had a dull opening on Friday. The film\u2019s opening has failed to beat the openings of films such as Loveyapa (2025) and Love Story (2021).<\/p>\n

\"EkEk Din box office collection day 1: Sai Pallavi and Junaid Khan in a still from the film.Ek Din box office collection<\/p>\n

According to the trade website Sacnilk, Ek Din collected \u20b90.81 crore net in India on its opening day. The film had an overall 14% occupancy. The Junaid-Sai film had a lukewarm opening when compared to other romances. <\/p>\n

For context, Junaid\u2019s theatrical debut Loveyapa<\/a>, which did not fare well at the box office, had a \u20b91.15 crore opening. Sai\u2019s hit Telugu film Love Story collected \u20b99.05 crore on its opening day. And the film is nowhere close to Hindi cinema\u2019s best-performing romantic drama Saiyaara (2025), which had a \u20b921.50 crore opening.<\/p>\n

About Ek Din<\/p>\n

Ek Din is a romantic drama film directed by Sunil Pandey and produced by Mansoor Khan, Aamir Khan, and Aparna Purohit under Aamir Khan Productions. The film marks Sai\u2019s debut in Bollywood and is Junaid\u2019s second theatrical release. It is a remake of the 2016 Thai film One Day. Initially scheduled for release in November 2025, it was pushed to May.<\/p>\n

Hindustan Times\u2019 review <\/a>of the film reads: \u201cJunaid largely fits the part. He holds his own in the emotional stretches, but as the film inches towards the climax, the writing stops doing him a favour and he begins to falter. And then there\u2019s Sai Pallavi. She\u2019s so effortlessly compelling that she commands your attention every time she\u2019s on screen, and you feel her absence just as much when she isn\u2019t. Her eyes do the heavy lifting with ease.\u201d To sum it up: \u201cEk Din settles for something far more fleeting. It\u2019s occasionally affecting courtesy Sai Pallavi\u2019s presence, but it never quite hits the emotional crescendo it seems to be chasing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film was screened in Mumbai ahead of its release, and Aamir teared up<\/a> after watching it. He also praised Sai at an event, saying, \u201cSai has done such an amazing job, you are going to get blown away. For me, Sai is the best actress we have in our country today.\u201d He added, \u201cJunaid ne bhi thik thak kiya hai. Woh mera beta hai toh kuch bol nahi sakta (Even Junaid did a good job, but he is my son, so I can’t say much). In fact, all the cast members have done a great job, and I am very happy for them,\u201d about his son\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ek Din box office collection day 1: Sunil Pandey’s romantic drama Ek Din was released in theatres on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20236,49,48,239206,75,161737,337,161740],"class_list":["post-641511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aamir-khan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ek-din-box-office-collection","tag-entertainment","tag-junaid-khan","tag-movies","tag-sai-pallavi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}