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JugJugg Jeeyo field workplace assortment day 1: Varun Dhawan-Anil Kapoor movie will get respectable opening, virtually hits Gangubai Kathiawadi numbers

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Dharma Productions’ newest launch, JugJugg Jeeyo, has acquired a good opening on the field workplace. The movie has performed good enterprise within the Northern belt of the nation, particularly within the Delhi-NCR area. On its opening day, it witnessed a mean occupancy of 20-25 per cent.

As per a Box Office India report, JugJugg Jeeyo, starring Anil Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Neetu Kapoor and Varun Dhawan, has earned roughly Rs 8.50 crore on Friday. The movie has performed higher within the Hindi-speaking areas. But, it’s unlikely that the movie will beat the opening day collections of Akshay Kumar’s historic drama Samrat Prithviraj, which minted Rs 10.70 crore on the primary day of its launch. By comparability, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi made Rs 10.5 crore on day one.

JugJugg Jeeyo had acquired strong pre-release reserving. Film producer and commerce skilled Girish Johar had earlier advised indianexpress.com, “JugJugg Jeeyo is a bit urban, typical Dharma glossy film. So, it will get a good start in Delhi, Punjab, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Mysore, and the top 20 cities.”

Film exhibitor Akshaye Rathi was sceptical in regards to the movie’s efficiency within the rural market and smaller cities of the nation. “I have no doubts JugJugg Jeeyo will do phenomenally well in the metro cities and urban India. The only thing I want to see is how well it performs in smaller towns and rural India because the film’s cast has appeal beyond the metros but the matter of question is whether the film’s content will appeal to the audience beyond urban India,” he had stated.

The household entertainer has acquired a mediocre response from the movie critics. The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta gave the movie a 2.5-star score. In her evaluate, she wrote, “JugJugg Jeeyo is Anil Kapoor’s show all the way, as he zig-zags between being loving dad-and-husband to a timorous man-about-town. The film falls back on the familiar Big Fat Punjabi Wedding with opulent sets and wedding naach-gaana every time things threaten to get real and spiky.”