Businessman collections dropped

There is a huge decline in the collections (First Day – 9.03 crores, Second Day – 3.97 crores) of Mahesh Babu’s Businessman. Though the makers of the film claimed that all the tickets for the first four days have been sold out even before the release with the advance booking facility, that didn’t reflect in the collections and eventually raising many doubts.

One reason for the huge decline is because of another big release ‘Bodyguard’, which stars Venkatesh and Trisha, in the Sankranthi race. Few section of audience (Family) have decided to stay away from ‘Businessman’ due to the Adult content, despite the film having a Universal Star like Mahesh Babu in the lead. Instead, they are preferring ‘Bodyguard’, which is touted to be a clean family entertainer.

As of now, the chances of Businessman crossing Dookudu collections look bleak.

Businessman First Day Collections in AP (Share)

Nizam – Rs 3,04,18,000

Ceded – Rs 2,01,10,000

Guntur – Rs 1,03,08,000

Vizag – Rs 73,48,000

Krishna – Rs 55,21,000

Nellore – Rs 35,17,000

East Godavari – Rs 75,05,000

West Godavari – Rs 55,73,000

Total Collections in AP – 9.03 crores (Announced by the Producer)

Businessman Second Day Collections in AP (Share)

Nizam – Rs 1.49 crores
Ceded – Rs 75 lakhs
Guntur – Rs 42 lakhs
Vizag – Rs 35 lakhs
Krishna – Rs 18.5 lakhs
Nellore – Rs 18 lakhs
East Godavari – Rs 30 lakhs
West Godavari – Rs 25 lakhs

Total Collections in AP – 3.97 crores (As per Trade Reports)

Can Businessman Escape From Becoming A Flop?

These days, the movies of Top League heroes of Tollywood are either marked as Hits or Flops. The status ‘Average’ is missing somehow for the top heroes. If you take the example of ‘Badrinath’, it got some decent collections. But, if you ask anyone, you will get the response saying ‘Badrinath’ is a flop instead of calling it an average movie. Similarly, for ‘Oosaravelli’, the movie has been made on 26 crores budget and the producer sold the movie for 28 crores to RR movie makers, keeping 2 crores profit, and RR movie makers got around 30 Crores of shares and they got more profits with satellite business, but still this profitable venture is being known as a flop movie among the general public.

So, basically nowadays, a movie is not called as a Hit or Flop based solely on the shares it collects, but how much impression the movie is making on the general audience. ‘Businessman’ seems to get the same issue. The movie started with an average talk on its first day morning but the talk is moving towards a flop. But there are many chances for the movie to get good amount of collections in the first week due to festival season and due to not having much competition from other movies. So, we have to wait and see whether ‘Businessman’ falls in the same category of ‘Badrinath’ and ‘Oosaravelli’ or it can break the convention