'Gadar 2' advance booking: Sunny Deol-Ameesha Patel-starrer sells 45K tickets, may collect a whopping Rs 25 cr on day 1

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Gadar 2’, the sequel to the 2001 blockbuster ‘Gadar: Ek Prem Katha’, can enjoy one of the biggest opening days of 2023! The advance booking figures of the Sunny Deol-Ameesha Patel starrer will leave you jaw-dropped! The movie has sold about 45,000 tickets for the opening day across three national chains PVR, Inox and Cinepolis, as per a Bollywood Hungama report. This already impressive figure can go further, up to over 2,00,000 ticket sales by Thursday (August 10). Going by the figures, the movie is expected to have an opening day figure of Rs 20-25 crore. If it does manage such a feat, ‘Gadar 2’ can be the highest first-day earner, just after ‘Pathaan’! Trade analyst Sumit Kadel said the movie's first day collections could be as high as Rs 30 crore! ‘Gadar 2’ will be receiving stiff competition from the Akshay Kumar-Pankaj Tripathi starrer ‘OMG 2’. The satirical comedy has sold only about 7,700 tickets for day one.

Helmed by Anil Sharma, ‘Gadar 2’ is a direct sequel of the 2001 action-romance ‘Gadar: Ek Prem Katha.’ The movie marks the return of both the leads — Deol and Patel to the silver screen. The story revolves around a father-son relationship. Set in the backdrop of the 1971 ‘Crush India’ campaign, the movie sees Tara Singh, a Sikh travel to Pakistan to rescue his son Chiranjeet ‘Jeete’ Singh who is imprisoned by the Pakistani Army under Major General Hamid Iqbal. The movie will hit the theatres on 11 August. 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha', released on 2001, and went on to become of the highest-grossing movies that year. Made on a budget of Rs 18 crore, it collected more than Rs 133 crore at the box-office. The movie revolved around an interfaith relationship, between Tara Singh, a truck driver and Sakina,