The box office never ceases to surprise. While one thought that Super Nani would garner at least a decent collection, it couldn’t rise at all. On the other hand, Roar – Tigers of the Sunderbans was expected to follow behind the Rekha starrer. However, it ended up with than tripling the collections of Super Nani! In a weekend when Happy New Year was expected to simply crush any new opposition whatsoever, the tigers of Roar managed to make some noise after all.
Let’s talk about Super Nani first. It was always going to be a tough journey for the film as it’s in the social genre which was popular in the 70s and the early 80s. Hence, its only shot was to grow on the basis of word of mouth. However, none of that really worked for the film which had a weekend of less than 2 crore.
On the other hand, Roar – which again hadn’t been hyped much (despite an exciting promo) – managed to find some sort of audience at least, especially in the single screens at interiors. As a result, the weekend collections were upwards of 5 crore. Now this is a decent sum for a film which came with no star value, no item number, and no notable name whatsoever. This isn’t all as even its genre (adventure) is not what makes for popular Hindi cinema. Still, the audience gave it a chance and now if the weekdays hold reasonably well, the film may just sail through with a lifetime collection of over 10 crore.
In a year where one can’t remember any other film with zero face value to have netted over 10 crore, this would be some feat indeed.