{"id":18595,"date":"2025-07-18T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:36:09","slug":"saiyaara-could-become-mohit-suris-biggest-day-1-grosser-displacing-sidharth-malhotra-and-shraddha-kapoors-ek-villain-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18595\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saiyaara\u2019 Could Become Mohit Suri\u2019s Biggest Day 1 Grosser; Displacing Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor’s Ek Villain | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018Saiyaara\u2019Mohit Suri’s romantic drama ‘Saiyaara’ releases today. The film may break box office records. Advance bookings are strong. It stars Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda. ‘Saiyaara’ might surpass ‘Ek Villain’s’ opening day numbers. The film has already grossed impressive amount in advance bookings. Trade insiders believe it is very possible. The trailer has emotion, passion, and music. Mohit Suri<\/a>\u2019s latest romantic drama \u2018Saiyaara\u2019 hits theatres today, and all signs point toward it scripting box office history \u2014 potentially becoming the biggest Day 1 opener of the director\u2019s career. Backed by a strong advance booking wave, the film \u2014 starring newcomers Ahaan Panday<\/a> and Aneet Padda<\/a> \u2014 is generating numbers that may surpass the first-day collections of Suri\u2019s previous benchmark, Ek Villain (2014), which opened at Rs 16.70 crore.According to data, Saiyaara has recorded an impressive Rs 9.39 crore gross in advance bookings alone, with over 3.8 lakh tickets sold across 7,850 shows nationwide. The film\u2019s average ticket price (ATP) stands at Rs 213. When block seats are added, the figure climbs to Rs 12.49 crore, signaling a strong runway for the film\u2019s theatrical launch.<\/p>\n

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Mohit Suri\u2019s Top Day 1 Grossers:<\/p>\n

Ek Villain \u2013 Rs 16.70 croreHalf Girlfriend \u2013 Rs 10.30 croreEk Villain Returns \u2013 Rs 7.05 croreMalang \u2013 Rs 6.71 croreMurder 2 \u2013 Rs 6.95 croreAashiqui 2 \u2013 Rs 6.10 croreHamari Adhuri Kahani \u2013 Rs 4.95 croreSaiyaara is already poised to easily outperform several of these titles by the time first-day final numbers come in. The question now is: can it go all the way to dethrone Ek Villain, which featured Sidharth Malhotra<\/a> and Shraddha Kapoor<\/a> and was a breakout commercial success?<\/p>\n

Poll<\/p>\n

Will ‘Saiyaara’ surpass the Day 1 collection of ‘Ek Villain’?<\/p>\n

Given the scale of advance bookings and the youthful buzz surrounding the film, trade insiders believe it\u2019s very possible. Unlike Ek Villain, which starred known faces, Saiyaara is headlined by debutants \u2014 which makes the strong initial interest even more remarkable. The trailer\u2019s blend of emotion, passion, and music \u2014 all hallmarks of Suri\u2019s filmmaking \u2014 seems to have struck a chord with Gen Z and millennial audiences.Moreover, with today being a Friday and urban centres showing higher-than-expected pre-sales, the film could easily race past Rs 17 crore by the end of the day if word of mouth holds strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohit Suri’s romantic drama ‘Saiyaara’ releases today. The film may break box office records. Advance bookings are strong.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[17177,16924,16923,17176,88,17178,16633,206,16634,17174,17175],"class_list":{"0":"post-18595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aashiqui-2","9":"tag-ahaan-panday","10":"tag-aneet-padda","11":"tag-ek-villain","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-independence-day","14":"tag-mohit-suri","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-saiyaara","17":"tag-shraddha-kapoor","18":"tag-sidharth-malhotra"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}