Awarapan 2 Box Office: Emraan Hashmi’s Sequel Crosses Rs 139 Crore Despite Toxic’s Screen Takeover

A sequel to a film that flopped in 2007 quietly becoming one of the year’s steadiest earners? That’s exactly the story Awarapan 2 is writing at the Indian box office — even as competition from Yash’s Toxic starts eating into its screen count.

Awarapan 2 collected ₹3.25 crore on its second Tuesday, pushing its total nett collection to ₹139.50 crore in India.

The Tuesday spike was modest, driven mainly by discounted ticket prices rather than genuine audience surge — trade watchers had hoped for a stronger jump. With its second week cume landing at ₹28 crore over five days, the film’s momentum is clearly cooling, and industry estimates now project a total run finish around ₹150 crore nett.

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Awarapan 2: Day-wise collection breakdown

The real story behind the numbers is the genre revival Emraan Hashmi has quietly engineered. Awarapan 2 is a sequel to the original 2007 film, which was a commercial disaster on release but slowly built a cult following over the years — making its sequel’s success practically unprecedented. There’s arguably no real template for a sequel to a flop becoming a certified hit.

This fits into a broader pattern: intense, music-driven love stories found renewed audience appetite last year, reviving memories of Hashmi’s peak years with films like Murder 2, Raaz 3, Jannat 2, and Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai before his career cooled through the later 2010s. Awarapan 2 essentially bet on that nostalgia — and the bet paid off.

Now, the real test begins. With Yash’s Toxic grabbing the lion’s share of screens starting today, Awarapan 2 is expected to see a sharp drop in daily collections. Whether it can still limp toward the ₹150 crore mark will depend on how much room remains in cinemas over the coming days.

For more context on how the Indian box office nett/gross system works, Wikipedia’s page on box office offers a useful primer on how these figures are tracked and reported.

And for more real-time box office updates and collection trackers on major Bollywood releases, TechnoSports’ entertainment section keeps the numbers coming as they’re reported.

With genre nostalgia clearly working in its favor, Awarapan 2 has already proven something rare — that even a flop’s legacy can eventually turn profitable, just twenty years later.

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