{"id":32878,"date":"2026-08-15T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/emraan-hashmi-awarapan-2-box-office-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:17:25","slug":"emraan-hashmi-awarapan-2-box-office-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/emraan-hashmi-awarapan-2-box-office-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Emraan Hashmi Awarapan 2 Box Office Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Awarapan 2’ and Sunny Deol’s ‘Batwara 1947’ were released on the same day, 14 August. In this box office clash, Emraan Hashmi’s film outearned Sunny Deol’s ‘Batwara 1947.’<\/p>\n

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Awarapan collected \u20b927.20 crore worldwide, while ‘Batwara 1947’ couldn’t even make half of that.<\/p>\n

Became Emraan Hashmi’s highest opening film of his career<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to industry tracker website Sacnilk, ‘Awarapan 2’ collected over \u20b921 crore net on its first day of release. This has become the biggest opening film of Emraan Hashmi’s career.<\/p>\n

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‘Awarapan 2’ surpassed the entire lifetime earnings of the first film ‘Awarapan’, released in 2007, even before the first day ended. The film is on track to become one of Bollywood’s biggest opening films in 2026.<\/p>\n

‘Awarapan 2’s gross collection has reached \u20b925.20 crore. The film earned \u20b92 crore overseas. Thus, its total worldwide gross earnings have reached \u20b927.20 crore.<\/p>\n

The first ‘Awarapan’, released in 2007, was a box office flop. It had collected only \u20b97.76 crore in its entire lifetime earnings. ‘Awarapan 2’ took only 8 hou\u20b9to reach this figure.<\/p>\n

Emraan’s record for two film openings broken<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets for ‘Awarapan 2’ sold over 20 thousand per hour on BookMyShow on Friday. Based on the film’s current pace, it is being said that it will soon cross the 50 crore rupee mark. A jump in the film’s earnings can be seen over the weekend.<\/p>\n

So far, only two of Emraan Hashmi’s films have had a double-digit opening. In 2012, ‘Raaz 2’ earned \u20b910.35 crore on its first day. In 2017, ‘Baadshaho’ broke this record by earning \u20b912.60 crore on its release day. ‘Awarapan 2’ has surpassed both these films with its opening pace.<\/p>\n

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Emraan’s old character in \u2018Awarapan 2\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Nitin Kakkar and produced by Vishesh Bhatt, \u2018Awarapan 2\u2019 sees Emraan Hashmi return as his iconic character, \u2018Shivam Pandit\u2019. The film also stars Shabana Azmi, Disha Patani, and Suvinder Vicky in important roles. The film has received mixed-to-positive reviews, with Emraan Hashmi\u2019s performance and the film\u2019s atmosphere receiving particular praise.<\/p>\n

\u2018Batwara 1947\u2019 first-day collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunny Deol\u2019s \u2018Batwara 1947\u2019 has earned \u20b95.75 crore net in India on its opening day so far. According to trade tracker Sacnilk, the film\u2019s gross collection in India stands at \u20b96.84 crore.<\/p>\n

The film has earned \u20b91.50 crore overseas, taking its worldwide collection to \u20b98.34 crore. It is currently running in 8,721 shows across the country.<\/p>\n

\u2018Partition 1947\u2019 first-day occupancy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hindi 2D version of \u2018Partition 1947\u2019 recorded an overall occupancy of 10.73% on its opening day. The morning shows recorded 7.54% occupancy, which rose to 12.31% in the afternoon. The occupancy was slightly higher during the evening and night shows.<\/p>\n

Film story and star cast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rajkumar Santoshi\u2019s \u2018Batwara 1947\u2019 is set against the backdrop of the Partition of India. Sunny Deol plays the role of Sikandar Mirza in the film. The cast also includes Preity Zinta, Shabana Azmi, Karan Deol, Ali Fazal, Abhimanyu Singh, Mithun Chakraborty, Rukhsar Rehman, and Dia Mirza.<\/p>\n

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Under Aamir Khan Productions, Aamir Khan and Aparna Purohit have produced the film. The film’s music is by AR Rahman, and the lyrics for the songs have been written by Javed Akhtar.<\/p>\n

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Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Awarapan 2’ and Sunny Deol’s ‘Batwara 1947’ were released on the same day, 14 August. In this box office clash, Emraan Hashmi’s film outearned Sunny Deol’s ‘Batwara 1947.’ Awarapan collected \u20b927.20 crore worldwide, while ‘Batwara 1947’ couldn’t even make half of that. Became Emraan Hashmi’s highest opening film of his career According to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25861,28400,28402,28399,27689,28401,28403,25032],"class_list":["post-32878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","tag-awarapan-2","tag-bantwara-1947","tag-bollywood-box-office","tag-box-office-clash","tag-emraan-hashmi","tag-highest-opening-film","tag-movie-earnings","tag-sunny-deol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}