'Ustaad Bhagat Singh' Box Office: The Pawan Kalyan Film Crosses ₹60 Crore; Sees A Dip

The Telugu action-comedy starring Pawan Kalyan, Ustaad Bhagat Singh, has completed its opening weekend without touching the ₹90 crore mark in its global box office collections. According to Sacnilk, the film recorded an India net collection of ₹8 crores—a few crores more than Aditya Dhar’s spy-thriller sequel Dhurandhar: The Revenge, which was released in a Telugu dub on the same day—on Sunday, 22 March.

The film’s current worldwide gross stands at ₹ 80 crore. According to Sacnilk, the film has raked in ₹60.8 crore in India net. Though Ustaad Bhagat Singh opened with ₹34.75 crores on Day 1, and performed better on its first Friday with ₹9 crore, there was a significant decline on the weekend with ₹9.05 crore on Saturday and ₹8 crore on Sunday in India.

The film, directed by Harish Shankar, also co-starred Raashii Khanna and Sreeleela. THR India's review of the film reads, "Ustaad Bhagat Singh (Pawan Kalyan), named after the Indian revolutionary, doesn’t get too much of a backstory. Orphaned since he can remember, he sustains through his found family – his headmaster (KS Ravikumar) and lunch lady (Gautami). His personality is led by a fierce sense of morality and a penchant for taking the law into his own hands. It only makes sense that he goes on to become a cop. But this is as early as where things get disjointed. Ustaad Bhagat Singh is largely shaped by the two halves of Ustaad’s life. A life that leads him to fall in love, and a life that locks his horns with that of the acting Chief Minister (Parthiban). The tissues that connect these two blocks are almost non-existent, making the film a jumble of harried elements such as ‘dance’, ‘fight’, ‘tears’, and ‘dance’ again, rather than a palatable, so-called full-meal entertainer the film is aiming for."