With no competition in sight coupled by the movie’s craze and summer season, Jalsa’s doesn’t budge from the top spot at boxoffice. Reports from Sify ( read report ) from Chennai state that the movie which opened with 6 screens claimed the number two spot in the city. Says Meenakshi Sundaram of Mayajaal: "For the first time for a non Tamil film we are having six shows daily, due to the pressure for tickets." The movie is still going housefuls in Movieland and PVR Kormangla in Bangalore.
In Hyderabad too, the movie is strong in collections with the drastic reduction in theatres. Instead of getting similar gross and lower shares by having more theatres, the distributors reduced the screen count to get higher shares from each screen. The movie reached the 8-crore share mark in Nizam territory, 3.75 crores away from being the highest grosser in that circuit. In the second week in Utthar Andhra, the movie collected nearly 1 crore sharing, taking its two week total gross to 2.75 crore and share to 2.35 crores. The two weeks share in Guntur is 1.66 crores. The movie amassed a share of 1.52 crores for the second week in Krishna district. Inspite of mixed reviews, the movie had a very strong opening from the first weekend itself in the overseas territory. The movie is closing in on Bommarillu and Pokiri which share the No.1 spot in different centers. If the second run of the movie too gets a good response, Jalsa is most likely to be the highest grosser in the overseas market too. An official release from the production house Geetha Arts, states that the 2 weeks gross of the film is 32 crores. BoxOfficeMojo (read report) states that Jalsa’s 2nd week gross is nearly 2 million competing with the first week gross of the two big releases of this week – You, Me Aur Hum and Krazzy4. BOM puts Jalsa’s 2 week tally at $7.2 million. With the next set of big releases nearly 3 weeks away the audience, distributors, megafans and producer are doing ‘Jalsa’ big time.
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