Starring Ajay Devgn, R Madhavan, Jyotika, and Janki Bodiwala, the horror thrille Shaitaan was launched within the theaters on March 8 final week to constructive critiques from audiences and critics. The movie grew to become Bollywood’s greatest horror opener by gathering Rs 14.75 crore web on its first day of launch and it has continued to keep up its momentum within the second weekend.

The movie has now turn out to be the second Hindi film in 2024 to enter the Rs 100-crore membership after Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone-starrer Siddharth Anand’s aerial actioner Fighter, which collected Rs 212.62 crore web in India (Rs 358.74 crore gross worldwide) upon its launch in January this yr.
In its first 9 days, i.e. until Saturday, Shaitaan had collected Rs 93.30 crore web in India. On Sunday, March 17, the horror thriller added Rs 9.75 crore to its home earnings taking the ten-day assortment to Rs 103.05 crore, as per the early estimates from the leisure monitoring portal Sacnilk.

Shaitaan is the official remake of the 2023 Gujarati movie Vash, which was written and directed by Krishnadev Yagnik. Janki Bodiwala performed the protagonist’s daughter, who will get hypnotised by a mysterious stranger, in Vash. Within the Hindi movie, she reprised her position as Ajay Devgn and Jyotika’s daughter, whom R Madhavan hypnotises and causes mayhem within the household.

The horror thriller is directed by Vikas Bahl, who has beforehand helmed Kangana Ranaut-starrer Queen (2014), Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt-starrer Shaandaar (2015), and Hrithik Roshan-starrer Tremendous 30 (2019) amongst others. Earlier than Shaitaan, he had helmed Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon-starrer Ganapath final yr, which turned out to be a field workplace bomb.

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