Irrfan Khan in Blackmail (Image courtesy: YouTube)
Highlights
- Over the weekend, the film had earned above Rs 7 crore
- Kirti Kulhari and Arunoday Singh are also part of film
- Blackmail's performance will reportedly be 'hit' by Varun's October
New Delhi: Irrfan Khan's Blackmail, which released last Friday, has earned Rs 11.20 crore so far, reports
Box Office India. Over the weekend, the film had earned above Rs 7 crore and on Monday, it earned Rs 1.35 crore. "
Blackmail was on the expected lines as it dropped on Monday after a low weekend. The Monday collections were 1.35 crore nett approximately which is a 45 per cent drop from Friday," the
Box Office India report stated. On Monday, trade analyst Taran Adarsh compared the box office performance of
Blackmail to Irrfan Khan's 2017 release
Hindi Medium, which hit the screens in China last week and has delivered a blockbuster performance at the box office there. "The box office performance is similar to
Hindi Medium [Rs 12.56 crore], although that film had a lower screen count," he tweeted.
Box Office India predicts that
Blackmail's performance 'will be hit' by Varun Dhawan's Friday release
October and thus, a "20 crore nett total looks mission impossible after the Monday collections," the
report stated.
In his review for NDTV, film critic Raja Sen gave
Blackmail 1.5 stars out of 5. "
Blackmail is a good crime for comedy. There is a victimless feel to it, because the crime has a sense of righteous comeuppance, since the person being blackmailed does, on some level, have it coming. Making sense is too much to ask for. All that a film with an intricate plot has to do is add up," he wrote.
Irrfan Khan's
Blackmail, directed by Abhinay Deo, also stars Kirti Kulhari and Arunoday Singh. Urmila Matondkar features in a special dance sequence
Bewafa Beauty.