{"id":33084,"date":"2026-08-16T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/awarapan-2-vs-bantwara-1947-box-office-collection\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:42:09","slug":"awarapan-2-vs-bantwara-1947-box-office-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/awarapan-2-vs-bantwara-1947-box-office-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarapan 2 vs Bantwara 1947 Box Office Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/16\/dbgifmagic__98_1786852171307.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/16\/dbgifmagic__98_1786852171307.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/16\/dbgifmagic__98_1786852171307.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Sunny Deol starrer film &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217; is facing tough competition at the box office from &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217;, which was released on August 14. According to Sacnilk, &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217; collected \u20b933.75 crore net on its second day of release. With this, the film&#8217;s total net earnings in India reached \u20b955.75 crore and worldwide gross collection reached \u20b972.90 crore.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Meanwhile, &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217; earned \u20b913.50 crore net on its second day. The film&#8217;s total net collection in India has reached \u20b919.25 crore and worldwide gross collection \u20b926.41 crore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217; stars Sunny Deol along with Preity Zinta, Shabana Azmi, Ali Fazal, Karan Deol, and Abhimanyu Singh in important roles. The film is based on the backdrop of the partition of India and has been produced by Aamir Khan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/comp-31-d_1785146314_1786764766551_1786853497806.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/comp-31-d_1785146314_1786764766551_1786853497806.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/comp-31-d_1785146314_1786764766551_1786853497806.gif\" alt=\"In the film 'Bantwara 1947', Sunny Deol has played the character of Sikandar Mirza.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>In the film &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217;, Sunny Deol has played the character of Sikandar Mirza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">On the occasion of Independence Day, the film&#8217;s earnings saw a jump on the second day. According to Sacnilk, the film earned ?13.50 crore net during 8,071 shows on the second day. The film&#8217;s gross collection in India is ?22.91 crore and overseas gross is ?3.50 crore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Special Screening Held in Mumbai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Meanwhile, a special screening of &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217; was held in Mumbai on Saturday, August 15. Many Bollywood celebrities including Sharad Shukla, Abhimanyu Singh, Makarand Deshpande and Paritosh Tripathi were seen at the film&#8217;s screening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Imran&#8217;s Old Character in &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Directed by Nitin Kakkar and produced by Vishesh Bhatt, &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217; sees Emraan Hashmi return in his famous role of &#8216;Shivam Pandit&#8217;. The film also stars Shabana Azmi, Disha Patani, and Suvinder Vicky in important roles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/collage__4_1786764676199_1786853441158.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/collage__4_1786764676199_1786853441158.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/collage__4_1786764676199_1786853441158.jpg\" alt=\"'Awarapan 2' is the official sequel to Emraan Hashmi's 2007 flop but cult classic film 'Awarapan'.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>&#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217; is the official sequel to Emraan Hashmi&#8217;s 2007 flop but cult classic film &#8216;Awarapan&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Emraan Hashmi hinted at &#8216;Awarapan 3&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Meanwhile, amidst the film&#8217;s excellent performance, Emraan Hashmi hinted at the third part, &#8216;Awarapan 3&#8217;. On Friday, Emraan visited a theater and told the audience that this film was made possible because of them. The love that Shivam and &#8216;Awarapan&#8217; have received in 19 years, this film belongs more to the fans than to the makers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">He further said that is why we came back and made this journey even more exciting. We have added more action and emotions to it. The hope is that you will like the entire film and yes, hopefully &#8216;Awarapan 3&#8217; will also come very soon. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny Deol starrer film &#8216;Bantwara 1947&#8217; is facing tough competition at the box office from &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217;, which was released on August 14. According to Sacnilk, &#8216;Awarapan 2&#8217; collected \u20b933.75 crore net on its second day of release. With this, the film&#8217;s total net earnings in India reached \u20b955.75 crore and worldwide gross collection reached&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33085,"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":[25861,28400,28736,28737,27157,28739,28738,25032],"class_list":["post-33084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","tag-awarapan-2","tag-bantwara-1947","tag-box-office-collection","tag-film-earnings","tag-india-cinema","tag-latest-bollywood","tag-sacnilk","tag-sunny-deol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084","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=33084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}