The Sabarmati Report box office Day 3: Vikrant Massey film collects Rs 6.35 crore

The Sabarmati Report, starring Vikrant Massey had a decent box office opening weekend. The film collected around Rs 6.35 crore, according to early estimates.

In Short

• The Sabarmati Report was released on November 15
• It earned Rs 3 crore on Sunday, i.e., Day 3
• It made a decent collection over it opening weekend

The film The Sabarmati Report, directed by Dheeraj Sarna and featuring Vikrant Massey in the lead, has performed decently at the box office during its opening weekend. Based on the tragic Sabarmati Express burning incident in Godhra, Gujarat, in 2002, the film also stars Ridhi Dogra and Raashii Khanna.

According to tracking website Sacnilk, the film recorded a decent collection over the weekend, although it trails behind Vikrant Massey's previous sleeper hit, 12th Fail.The total collection of the film stans at Rs 6.35 crore. On Sunday, the film earned Rs 3 crore, showing a slight increase from Saturday's earnings of Rs 2.1 crore, and an improvement from the opening day's collection of Rs 1.25 crore.

Here is the trailer of the film:

Despite opening better than Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 2023 film 12th Fail, The Sabarmati Report did not see as much growth over the weekend. 12th Fail's opening weekend collection was Rs 6.74 crore.

The Sabarmati Report was the sole Bollywood release last week, competing with Siva's Tamil action fantasy 'Kanguva', starring Suriya, and Ridley Scott's Hollywood film Gladiator II. The other two films are big-budgeted grand films, which also hampered the Vikrant Massey-starrer's collection.

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the film, which focuses on the events leading up to the Godhra train tragedy in 2002. Praising the film for "revealing the truth" behind the incident, PM Modi said that a "fake narrative can only persist for a limited period of time".

The film is based on the burning of the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express near Godhra station on February 27, 2002, where at least 59 devotees returning from Ayodhya were killed. This incident led to widespread riots in Gujarat. At the time, PM Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.