Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Box Office Collection Day 4: Varun Dhawan Film Falls Flat With ₹2 Crore On Monday

The box office journey for the latest Bollywood romantic comedy has hit a significant speed bump as it enters the crucial weekdays. David Dhawan’s directorial venture, Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, starring Varun Dhawan alongside leading ladies Pooja Hegde and Mrunal Thakur, has experienced a sharp decline in its earnings on its fourth day. After managing to pull in decent footfalls over its opening weekend, the film faced the dreaded first Monday test and unfortunately fell flat, managing to mint only around ₹2 crore. This steep drop of over sixty percent from its Sunday numbers indicates that the film is struggling to find a strong holding among regular weekday theatergoers, leaving trade analysts skeptical about its long-term theatrical run.

To understand the current trajectory of the movie, it is essential to look at how it performed during its initial release days. Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai started its cinematic run on Friday by pulling in a modest ₹7.50 crore, and it maintained an identical pace on Saturday by collecting another ₹7.50 crore. Sunday provided a temporary sigh of relief for the makers when the film witnessed a healthy twenty percent jump, registering its highest single-day haul of ₹9 crore, which brought the total opening weekend collection to a fair domestic net of twenty-four crore rupees. However, the momentum completely vanished as the working week commenced, and the lackluster ₹2 crore brought in on day four brings the total domestic net collection to just over ₹26 crore, failing to justify the massive scale of its nationwide release across thousands of screens.

Several factors seem to be working against this comic entertainer, primarily the underwhelming response from both film critics and general audiences on social media platforms. The plot revolves around a chaotic scenario where the protagonist, played by Varun Dhawan, finds himself navigating complex relationships that lead to both female leads becoming pregnant with his children simultaneously. While the filmmaker has a legendary track record of delivering cult comedy blockbusters in the past, this latest offering has received heavily mixed to negative reviews for its dated humor and predictable screenplay. Furthermore, the film is facing stiff competition at the ticket windows from major concurrent releases like the action-packed drama Peddi and the multi-starrer movie Bandar, which are eating into its screen share and dividing the attention of potential viewers. With weak morning occupancy rates and failing to show a significant turnaround during evening shows, the road ahead looks incredibly tough for the production house as it aims to break even in the coming weeks.