Overview
- Rani Mukerji’s thriller posted a strong weekend in India with day-wise nets of roughly Rs 4 crore, Rs 6.25 crore and Rs 7.25 crore, before dropping to about Rs 2.15 crore on Monday for a four-day total near Rs 19.65 crore.
- Early trade estimates peg the worldwide opening weekend gross at around Rs 27–28 crore, including roughly Rs 20 crore India gross and about Rs 7 crore from overseas.
- Mardaani 3 surpassed the franchise’s earlier opening-day figures, topping Mardaani 2’s Rs 3.80 crore and Mardaani’s Rs 3.40 crore with about Rs 4 crore on Friday.
- Competition remains intense from Border 2, which logged an estimated Rs 54.5 crore on its first Sunday and has surged past Rs 250 crore in India, pressuring Mardaani 3’s weekday holds.
- YRF’s Abhiraj Minawala directs the third entry featuring Mukerji as SSP Shivani Shivaji Roy, with the story centered on her probe into the disappearance of 93 young girls, a theme the star highlighted in a Monday statement about cinema’s social purpose.