Akshay Kumar's Mission Raniganj earns ₹78 lakh on Day 1 advance booking

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Akshay Kumar starrer Mission Raniganj -- The Great Bharat Rescue's advance booking has opened. On day 1, the movie collected 78.02 Lakhs in total, according to Sacnilk. The movie about a rescue mission from India's oldest coalfield is expected to perform decently at the box office.

According to Koimoi, as on Thursday, 5 October, 1:30pm, Mission Raniganj sold only 2000 tickets across the three national chains - PVR, Inox, and Cinepolis - and the final advance is expected to be under the 10,000 mark given the slow movement in pace. Notably, this will be Akshay Kumar's first Bollywood release after he announced on 15 August 2023 that he had been granted Indian citizenship. Further the movie saw zero sales in at least ten cities including Amritsar, Bhopal.

Warangal, Ludhiana. The highest seat sales were recorded from Durgapur (20%) , an industrial town situated very close to Raniganj Coal mines. The movie is set to release in theatres on 6 October, 2023.

Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue is a survival thriller movie, which is based on a true event when 65 miners were trapped at the Raniganj Coalfields in 1989 and a mining engineer from IIT Dhanbad, Jaswant Singh Gill, rescued all the miners. ‘Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue’ also marks the debut of Jackky Bhagnani's Jjust Music in the OST (Original Soundtrack) world, and this beautiful soundtrack of Jjust Music's Mission Raniganj is sure to take the audiences on a journey of soulful music. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels