Akshay Kumar-starrer rescue thriller has taken a disappointing start at the box office, earning only Rs 12.15 crore in the opening weekend.
The rescue thriller Mission Raniganj, headlined by Akshay Kumar, was released in the theatres on October 6 to positive reviews from critics and moviegoers. However, these reviews have failed to attract audiences to theatres in the opening weekend and the film has seen a disappointing start at the box office.
As per early estimates from the entertainment tracking portal Sacnilk.com, Mission Raniganj earned Rs 4.85 crore on its third day of theatrical release, which is a meagrre 7% growth from its second day when it earned Rs 4.50 crore. Mission Raniganj had taken a shockingly low opening of just Rs 2.8 crore. Thus, the three-day net total for the film stands at Rs 12.15 crore.
Apart from Akshay, Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue, which was reportedly titled Capsule Gill and The Great Indian Rescue, before its release also stars Kumud Mishra, Pavan Malhotra, Jameel Khan, Ravi Kishan, Varun Badola, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Parineeti Chopra, Sudhir Pandey, and Shishir Sharma.
The rescue thriller is inspired by a real disaster that took place in Raniganj, West Bengal in 1989 and left six miners dead and 65 trapped in a flooded coal mine. The mining engineer and trained rescue official Jaswant Singh Gill, portrayed by Akshay Kumar, rescused those 65 miners and became a national hero.
It is the second collaboration between Akshay Kumar and director Tinu Suresh Desai after seven years. Desai had directed the Khiladi star in the 2016 crime thriller Rustom, which was also based on a real life story of Indian naval officer KM. Nanavati, who was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover, in what became the last jury trial in the Indian legal history.
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