Avatar Fire and Ash box office collection day 2: James Cameron’s holiday-season release, Avatar: Fire and Ash, is holding steady at the Indian box office despite tough competition from Ranveer Singh’s Bollywood release, Dhurandhar. The film opened in India with approximately Rs 20 crore and registered a healthy 17.63% growth on Day 2. On Saturday, Avatar 3 collected around Rs 22.35 crore, according to trade tracker Sacnilk.
On December 20, the latest instalment in the Avatar franchise earned Rs 10.5 crore from its English version, Rs 6.25 crore in Hindi, Rs 2.5 crore in Tamil, Rs 3 crore in Telugu, Rs 0.08 crore in Kannada, and Rs 0.02 crore in Malayalam. The film’s total India net collection in two days stands at Rs 41.05 crore.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is performing well at the Indian box office, but its numbers remain significantly lower than those of its predecessor, Avatar: The Way of Water. Avatar 2 opened to Rs 40 crore in India and climbed to Rs 42.5 crore on Day 2, registering a box-office growth of 5.46 percent. By the end of its sixth week at the Indian box office, Avatar: The Way of Water had amassed Rs 391.4 crore.
However, at the global box office, James Cameron’s film has already crossed the $100 million mark, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Despite its impressive global box-office numbers, Avatar 3 has received a mixed response from critics. An excerpt from SCREEN’s review read, “Air, water done, we are into ‘fire and ash’ as James Cameron continues his odyssey into Pandora, an inhabited exomoon several light years away from Earth, that remains as breathtakingly imaginative as ever. However, you may find yourself wishing it also took some breaths – as Cameron builds and builds on what is now a familiar template.”
