Mr & Mrs Mahi Box Office Day 5: Rajkummar-Janhvi Kapoor Film Registers Dip Due To Election Results

Mr & Mrs Mahi hit the big screens on May 31. The movie features Rajkummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor in the lead roles for the second time since their horror comedy movie Roohi. The film opened to a decent number at the box office and continues to attract audiences to housefull theatres. 

Mr & Mrs Mahi crosses ₹20 crores in five days 

Mr & Mrs Mahi opened to a decent ₹6.75 crore in India as per Sacnilk. On the subsequent weekend, the sports drama movie raked in a total of ₹10.1 crore. On the first Monday of release, the movie minted ₹2.15 crore in domestic collections. The results of the 2024 Lok Sabha General elections were declared on the following day. 

On the day of the Lok Sabha election, the film recorded a relatively low occupancy in theatres amd registered a dip in business. The Rajkummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor starrer minted ₹1.85 crore. This has taken the film’s total business to a decent ₹20.85 crore. The movie became Janvi Kapoor’s second-highest opener movie ever. With the collections, the film is soon expected to surpass the collection of Roohi (₹23.25 crore) to become her second highest-grossing film ever after Dhadak (₹74.19 crores).

How Aamir Khan's Lagaan inspired Mr & Mrs Mahi

Director Sharan revealed how he was inspired to make his movie, with cricket at the centre of the storyline. Sharan shared that people watch cricket at home throughout the year and the idea to make a movie on the sport was to tell a story. He also heaped praise on Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan.

"There’s so much cricket to watch in general, so I’m not going to a theatre to watch cricket, I go there to watch a story. We didn’t want to show the sport like how we see it on TV... We shot it like a scene, the idea was to show the drama of the scene. This was done brilliantly in Lagaan. In Lagaan, you were following the story, you were not sitting and watching the match. Our inspiration from Lagaan in terms of coverage, and the focus was on storytelling, that’s what we were trying to take,” the director told PTI.