Sarfira Box Office Collection Day 1: Akshay Kumar Starrer Registers A Low Opening Of ₹2.50 Crore

Akshay Kumar starrer Sarfira has been receiving positive reviews from the audience. The movie, which is a Hindi remake of 2020 hit Tamil movie Soorarai Pottru, is inspired by the true events from the life of G. R. Gopinath, founder of Indian low-cost airline Simplifly Deccan, as described in his memoir, Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey. The movie's first-day business was heavily suffered because of a clash with Kamal Haasan's highly anticipated movie, Indian 2.

Sarfira box office collection day 1

The movie had a "shockingly" low opening day. In fact, the numbers are lower than Akshay's previous movies Selfiee (₹2.55 crore) and Mission Raniganj (₹2.80 crore). On the first day at the domestic box office, Sarfira got only managed to earn ₹2.50 crore. Sarfira had an overall 13.08% Hindi Occupancy on Friday with the maximum reported in Chennai (22.50 per cent).

"The movie would need to a miraculous tunaround on Saturday and Sunday. The word of mouth is on the positive side, but it should convert into footfalls... It's a wait-and-watch situation right now," wrote trade analyst Taran Adarsh.

What else do we know about Sarfira?

In Sudha Kongara's directorial, the movie traces the journey of Veer Mhatre (played by Akshay Kumar), who aims to introduce low-cost aviation carriers so that a vast majority of Indians can fly without straining their pockets. Inspired by the life of G. R. Gopinath, the founder of the Indian low-cost airline Simplifly Deccan. Gopinath served in the Indian Army as a captain and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971-1972. He co-founded Deccan Aviation, a charter helicopter service, with two friends from the Indian Air Force in 1997. In 2003, he founded Air Deccan, a low-cost airline that later merged with Kingfisher Airlines in 2007.