Box office: John Abraham’s hat-trick hopes suffer a blow with ‘RAW’; here's how all recent releases are faring

John Abraham had a memorable 2018 with both his solo-starrers turning out to be successful. However, actor’s endeavour for a hat-trick has suffered a jolt with his first release of year, ‘Romeo Akbar Walter’ taking a low opening at box office. 

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According to reports, ‘Romeo Akbar Walter’ collected Rs 5 crore on day of release, Friday. point to te here is that John’s last release ‘Satyameva Jayate’ had opened to an outstanding Rs 20 crore, and had even given Akshay Kumar’s ‘Gold’ tough competition on Independence Day on its way to becoming  actor’s highest solo grosser.

On or hand, ‘Dostana’ star’s release before that, ‘Parmanu: Story of Pokhran’ had collected similar to what ‘RAW’ had collected Rs 4.82 crore. However, difference here is that former was majorly lauded by critics and audiences, which led to movie earning over Rs 60 crore. But that’s t case with ‘RAW as it has largely got poor to aver reviews.

That's reason chances of any significant jump in collections are less. only thing that could work in its favour is that re are major releases this week, and it has only previous releases as competition. However, IPL has been mirly affecting Bollywood according to trade experts, and that could create a dent for John Abraham starrer. 

Meanwhile, ‘Luka Chuppi’ and ‘Badla’ have passed box office test with flying colours and have been declared as ‘Super Hit’ by trade analyst Taran Adarsh. While Kartik Aaryan-Kriti San-starrer earned Rs 92.73 crore, Taapsee Pannu-Amitabh Bachchan’s film is at Rs 83.69 crore right w. 

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final verdict on Akshay Kumar’s ‘Kesari’ is yet to come out, but movie has been a success with Rs 137.17 crore in bag till w. 

Vidyut Jammwal’s ‘Junglee’ did decent business in first week, earning Rs 21.20 crore, but it is ‘lower than expected’ and t on lines of 'Commando 2.'

Salman Khan’s launchpad for Pranutan Bahl-Zaheer Iqbal, 'tebook' didn’t do well, with collections less than Rs 5 crore in first week.