Merry Christmas First Day First Show Public Review: Katrina Kaif, Vijay Sethupathi, Sriram Raghavan
A big star like Katrina Kaif is facing the heat from a lesser known actor and director combination of Teja Sajja and Prasanth Varma with their Telugu film Hanu Man.
Both the films clashed at the box office on 12th January. While Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupati starrer Merry Christmas was slightly ahead on day 1 with Rs 2.55 crore, the Hindi version of Hanu Man had collected Rs 2.1 crore. On day 2, Hanuman took the lead and minted Rs 3.9 crore as compared to Merry Christmas’ Rs 3.45 crore . However, on Sunday, Merry Christmas saw a marginal jump of just 10 % to collect Rs 3.75 crore, while Hanu Man collected almost double of its earnings at Rs 6 crore. By the end of first week, Merry Christmas has collected around 9.65 crore, while Hanu Man has collected Rs 12 crore.
Hanu Man is the modern re-telling of the story of the legend of Lord Hanuman based in the fictional village of Anjanadri.