Grand opening for JTHJ and SOS

Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son Of Sardaar opened together on Diwali day and both have managed a grand opening. Trade pundit predicts that the movies’ box office collection will cross Rs.100 crore mark.

Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif starrer JTHJ was released on 2,500 screens and it has reportedly collected Rs15.23 crore all over India. The Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha and Sanjay Dutt starrer SOS collected Rs10.72 crore from 2,000 screens in the country.

Produced by Aditya Chopra, late filmmakers Yash Chopra’s last directorial JTHJ has reportedly been made at a budget of Rs50 crore, while director Ashwni Dhir’s SOS said to be costlier with Rs.80 crore expenses.

This is the biggest and best Diwali for Bollywood. The business of JTHJ and SOS will be the biggest ever,” Adarsh tweeted.

There has been a lot of pre-release buzz around both JTHJ and SOS. Plus they have the advantage of festive occasion and extended weekend to mint more money.

“In mass circuits, SOS is ahead and at multiplexes, JTHJ takes a lead. As per early trends, JTHJ is ahead of SOS in India. But, both are winners at the box-office.

Anant Verma, director and business head of DT Cinemas, said, “Both the films have opened well with almost equal occupancy at our cinemas. We gave equal capacity and almost same number of shows to both. We are looking at a decent occupancy till Sunday. Friday morning shows will dip a little, but overall till Sunday all cinemas will do well. Families, youngsters and couples are coming to watch SOS and JTHJ.”

Sanjay Ghai of Mukta Arts predicts the films to cross Rs100 crore collection mark. Today both JTHJ and SOS are going houseful,” he added