Laal Kaptaan, featuring Saif Ali Khan as a Naga sadhu, failed to attract an audience on its first day of release. The film conflicted with Angelina Jolie's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which recorded a somewhat higher opening at the box office.
As indicated by a report on Box office India, Laal Kaptaan made around Rs 50 lakh. This is even lower than Sonam Kapoor's most recent release, The Zoya Factor, which had opened at Rs 70 lakh a month ago.
Directed by Navdeep Singh, the film is a revenge thriller. It recounts to the account of a Naga sadhu who is likewise a bounty hunter. It additionally stars Zoya Hussain, Deepak Dobriyal and Manav Vij. Sonakshi Sinha likewise has an appearance in the film.
The film had earned a blended reaction from critics. The Hindustan Times survey of the film read, "The film, having set up its time and mood, meanders. The punch to the gut you expected in the second half never comes and the rush of the pursuit blurs. You see the huge uncover coming a mile off and the peak feels constrained. That is the issue with long voyages — they remove the enjoyment of at last arriving at your goal."
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil likewise failed to impress the audience and gathered around Rs 70 lakh on the very beginning. Aishwarya Rai has lent her voice for Angelina's character in the film's Hindi adaptation.
In the meantime, Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff's War is creeping towards Rs 300 crore. The film gathered around Rs 2.75 crore net on its third Friday. The all-out accumulations of the film have crossed Rs 290 crore in all languages.
Film trade expert Taran Adarsh has affirmed that Siddharth Anand's film is set to cross Rs 100 crore in the overseas market. Sharing the international figures of the film, he composed on Twitter,"War is racing towards ₹ 100 cr mark in the international arena… Total after Week 2: $ 12.10 million [Rs 86.04 cr]…USA -Canada: $ 3.992 mn UAE – GCC: $ 4.357 mn UK: $ 790k ROW: $ 2.961 mn Note: Few cinemas yet to report. Overseas."
