Kartik Aaryan–Ananya Panday’s Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri opened weak at Rs 8.46 crore, with exhibitors calling it a stale romcom lacking FOMO. Some veen velive that the release time is wrong as film faced onslaught of Dhurandhar
(L-R) Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday in a still from ‘Tu Mera Main Teri Main Tera Tu Meri’. PIC/YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM
This Christmas, romance arrived on the big screen in a quintessential Dharma-esque manner, but audiences have refused to reciprocate love for the story. The Kartik Aaryan-Ananya Panday-starrer Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri collected only Rs 8.46 crore on opening day, with a four-day total of around Rs 28 crore.
Bihar-based exhibitor Vishek Chauhan isn’t surprised. He told mid-day, “I don’t think the film had any chance from day one. It looks like a stale product, which people have seen umpteen times throughout the previous decade. It is basically the genre that came into being with Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone-starrer Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani (2013). And then Ranbir milked it to great effect with many films. He even managed to get some kind of success with Tu Jhoothi Main Makaar (2023). The audience has seen enough of this genre. Theatrical entertainment works on the basic principle of the ability of the content to create the fear of missing out (FOMO). If your content is not able to do that, the audience will not come to the theatres. If you feel that you will make anything random, then don’t expect numbers.”
Ranveer Singh in ‘Dhurandhar’
Chauhan added lessons for Karan Johar, the co-producer of the film: “Two of his productions this year — Tu Meri Main Tera and Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari — were stale products. We need intense romantic love stories on the big screen, that’s what people are watching right now. People want dark, intense lovers. No matter how good a film you make, the public will not come to see a romantic comedy. People are saturated with it.”
Poster of ‘Avatar: Fire & Ice’
Timing also worked against the release. Rajasthan-based exhibitor Raj Bansal told mid-day, “The film has terribly low collections so far. The opening day (Dec 25) was low. Then a Friday (Dec 26) drop was natural. But Saturday’s (Dec 27) collections showed that it would trend poorly. The movie got sandwiched between Dhurandhar and Avatar: Fire & Ice, which is doing well at my theatre. Its lifetime looks like around R40 crore. What the film lacked was hit music. Had even one or two songs worked, the opening would not have been so bad. The movie’s star cast is also not a big draw.”
Opening day
Rs 8.46 cr
Lifetime estimate
Rs 40 cr
Four-day weekend
Rs 28 cr approx
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