Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan forces out Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 in Bengal

On September 7, Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan entered as Tsunami all over the country. As a result, other films had to take a backseat to make room for Atlee’s directorial. Among them are Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 and Dev’s Byomkesh O Durgo Rohoshyo. Both the films were released on August 11 – the Independence Day weekend. Gadar 2 scored pretty well in terms of box office numbers and reached the Rs 500 cr mark. However, it had to make room for Shah Rukh Khan’s storm. 

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Jawan opened in Bengal with approximately 1200 shows. There are a number of shows that started early in the morning. Almost every show on Thursday was houseful. Given this trend, there is a chance that there will be a rise in the number of shows on Friday, given the capacity of theatres. 

On the other hand, Gadar 2 had 122 shows across West Bengal until Wednesday. On Thursday, the Sunny Deol-Amisha Patel film bagged 22 shows. This massive fall in numbers was attributed to the high demand for Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan.  

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Satadeep Saha, who runs Ajanta Cinema, said, “Gadar 2 was doing well but we had to replace it with Jawan because of the demand. This is the first time we started the at with a 6.40 am show. We had 11 shows throughout the day. We don’t have any more capacity to screen anything else.”

Not just Gadar 2, Dev’s Byomkesh O Durgorohoshyo also saw a dip in the number of shows. Dev’s film was also released on August 11 and did moderately good business at the box office.