Chand Mera Dil Box Office Collection Day 8: Ananya Panday, Lakshya Film Collects Only ₹1 Crore as It Kicks Off Week 2

The romantic drama Chand Mera Dil, featuring the fresh on-screen pairing of Ananya Panday and Lakshya, has witnessed a noticeable slow down as it officially entered its second week at the box office. Directed by Vivek Soni and heavily backed by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, the youth-centric film struggled to maintain momentum on its second Friday, managing to collect just one crore and four lakh rupees net across India. The single-digit performance has raised significant concerns among trade analysts and industry experts regarding the movie’s overall financial recovery, especially considering that the film failed to hit the twenty crore milestone during its entire opening week run. According to industry trade tracker Sacnilk, this recent eighth-day figure officially brings the domestic box office total of the romantic venture to a muted twenty crore and forty-nine lakh rupees, indicating that the film is highly dependent on a monumental weekend jump to stay afloat.

A closer analysis of the movie’s theatrical journey reveals a highly fluctuating performance that originally kicked off on May 22, 2026, with a decent opening day collection of three crore rupees. The initial weekend brought a wave of optimism for the makers as urban multiplexes witnessed fair growth, pushing the single-day business to three crore and seventy-five lakh rupees on Saturday and a peak of four crore and twenty-five lakh rupees on Sunday. However, the momentum sharply flattened out as the weekdays commenced, with the film experiencing a standard Monday dip down to two crore and twenty-five crore rupees, followed by a steady drop to two crore and ten lakh rupees on Tuesday and one crore and ninety lakh rupees on Wednesday. While a sudden mid-week spike of two crore and twenty lakh rupees on Thursday—aided largely by an Eid holiday and buy-one-get-one-free ticket promotional offers—helped the project wrap its first week at nineteen crore and forty-five lakh rupees, the sudden drop to bare baseline figures on Friday highlights a lack of strong, sustained word-of-mouth among mainstream cinema goers.

To put these numbers into context within the lead actors’ professional filmographies, the theatrical performance of Chand Mera Dil presents a contrasting scenario to their previous cinematic outings. Ananya Panday’s last major silver screen romantic comedy venture alongside Kartik Aaryan, titled Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, had comfortably collected over thirty crore rupees net within its first eight days of release despite receiving lukewarm reviews from critics. On the other hand, Lakshya’s hard-hitting action debut feature film Kill had managed to bring in only eleven crore and ninety lakh rupees in that exact same eight-day timeframe, though that project eventually earned cult status due to overwhelmingly positive critical feedback. The current trajectory of their joint venture presents a tough road ahead, especially with major, highly anticipated commercial blockbusters slated to flood the distribution networks over the coming weeks, which will drastically reduce the available screen space for smaller romantic dramas.

Beyond the purely financial numbers, the movie has also found itself at the center of a massive online storm, particularly surrounding a viral video clip that has generated intense trolling across various social media platforms. The highly discussed scene features Ananya Panday’s character, Chandni, performing a unique and edgy Bharatanatyam fusion dance sequence as part of her character introduction. Addressing the persistent online mockery, veteran actress Charu Shankar, who portrays Chandni’s on-screen mother Nivedita in the film, firmly came out in support of her co-star, stating that while audiences are fully entitled to their own valid artistic opinions, trolling is never in good taste. She clarified that the sequence was intentionally conceived by the creative team as a contemporary, rebellious statement to introduce a young woman who isn’t afraid to break traditional boundaries, adding that mockery shouldn’t overshadow the honest effort put into the film’s visual storytelling.

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