--- title: 'Haiwaan’s ₹11.5 Crore Weekend Leaves No Room for a Monday Slide' type: 'blog post' section: 'Industry' format: 'Editorial feature' standfirst: 'Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s crime thriller lost business on its first Sunday, finishing below ₹12 crore worldwide. Even the competing estimates tell the same grim story.' author: 'CinePixo' published: '2026-09-14' updated: '2026-09-14' about_people: - 'Saif Ali Khan' - 'Akshay Kumar' tags: - 'Haiwaan worldwide box office day 3' - 'Haiwaan opening weekend collection' - 'Akshay Kumar Saif Ali Khan box office' - 'Haiwaan India net collection' - 'Haiwaan Sunday occupancy' - 'Haiwaan worldwide collection ₹11.5 crore' sources: - 'https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/haiwaan-worldwide-box-office-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khans-crime-thriller-wraps-its-first-weekend-below-12-crore/' - 'https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan' - 'https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/box-office/story/haiwaan-box-office-day-3-akshay-saif-reunion-sees-no-spark-with-only-rs7-35-cr-collections-555332-2026-09-14' - 'https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan-starrer-slows-down/ar-AA2cawin' - 'https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-saif-ali-khan-akshay-kumar-rs-7-cr-10876938/' - 'https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/box-office/2026/haiwaan-opening-weekend-box-office-collection-akshay-saifs-film-tanks-in-3-days-fails-to-touch-10cr-531081.html' - 'https://www.newsx.com/uncategorized/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-1-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan-film-opens-to-rs-3-crore-records-one-of-their-weakest-starts-270980/' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/blog/haiwaans-115-crore-weekend-leaves-no-room-for-a-monday-slide' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Haiwaan’s ₹11.5 Crore Weekend Leaves No Room for a Monday Slide *Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s crime thriller lost business on its first Sunday, finishing below ₹12 crore worldwide. Even the competing estimates tell the same grim story.* By CinePixo, 2026-09-14 · Industry Haiwaan finished its opening weekend below ₹12 crore worldwide after losing ground on Sunday, September 13. The Priyadarshan crime thriller, led by Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, earned an estimated ₹1.85 crore net in India on its third day, according to Outlook India and Business Today. Its three-day domestic net reached ₹7.35 crore. That is a brutal opening for a Hindi film built around two major stars, especially because Sunday normally gives a wide release its best chance to grow. Instead, Haiwaan fell 26% from Saturday, Outlook reported. The problem is no longer a soft Friday. The weekend itself rejected the recovery the film needed. ## Haiwaan’s Sunday Went Backward Outlook’s figures put Friday at ₹3 crore net and Saturday at ₹2.50 crore. Sunday then fell to ₹1.85 crore across 4,374 shows. The number of shows also contracted sharply from 7,224 on Friday and 5,759 on Saturday. The occupancy pattern offers little comfort. Outlook reported 6.15% attendance for Sunday morning shows, rising to 19.77% in the afternoon and 22.92% in the evening before dropping to 19.69% at night. Its reported overall Day 3 figure was 14%. A Sunday decline is the detail that changes the reading of this opening. A modest Friday can be repaired by word of mouth; a weaker Sunday suggests that the available audience had already begun to thin out. Business Today likewise described the third day as lacking the expected weekend surge. Filmibeat’s comparison makes the scale clearer. It reported ₹22.5 crore for Hanuman Ansh on Sunday and ₹13.25 crore for Mirzapur: The Movie, against Haiwaan’s ₹1.85 crore. Those titles also had more shows, but Haiwaan was not close enough for screen count alone to explain the gap. ![Bollywood Actor Akshay Kumar and Siddharth Malhotra promote film brothers in jaipur.](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/371a0c78-a847-4fa8-b1fe-93a52f0d8f75.webp) *Photo: Sureshsharmaptv63 · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akshay_Kumar_and_Siddharth_Malhotra_with_suresh_sharma.JPG)* ## Two Worldwide Estimates Tell the Same Story There is a small discrepancy in the published worldwide total. Koimoi calculated ₹11.42 crore gross after three days, based on ₹8.67 crore from India and ₹2.75 crore overseas. Outlook and Business Today reported approximately ₹11.55 crore worldwide, with Business Today placing the India gross at ₹8.80 crore. Either figure leaves Haiwaan below ₹12 crore. The difference does not alter the diagnosis. Overseas markets contributed about ₹75 lakh on Sunday and ₹2.75 crore across the weekend, according to Outlook. Koimoi’s daily worldwide calculation moved in the wrong direction: ₹4.54 crore on Friday, ₹3.95 crore on Saturday and ₹2.93 crore on Sunday. A film that begins at this level needs acceleration. Haiwaan produced three consecutive steps down. ![Vikram and Akshay Kumar Launches Big Deal TV Home Shopping Channel](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/3e3da092-821b-4b44-8530-e5438e8259c0.webp) ![akshay kumar at tajabad](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/875d62df-ba75-4764-b5e7-bb3f92bafaeb.webp) *Photos: Sriram Narasimhan Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in) · [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vikram_and_Akshay_Kumar_Launches_Big_Deal_TV_Home_Shopping_Channel.jpg); VrMUSLIM · [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akshay_kumar_at_tajabad.jpg)* ## Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan Could Not Fill the Reunion Haiwaan brought Kumar and Khan back together after Tashan. Filmibeat described the gap as 18 years, while Business Today called it 17 years; Tashan was released in 2008. The reunion gave the film an easy promotional hook, but ticket sales did not turn nostalgia into urgency. The cast extends beyond its two leads. Outlook identifies Khan as Shyam Rane, the visually impaired maintenance worker of a retired judge who is murdered, while Kumar plays Parshuram, a killer searching for the judge’s hidden daughter. Boman Irani, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Saiyami Kher, Asrani and Rajpal Yadav also appear, according to Koimoi, with Mohanlal in a cameo. Filmibeat reported that Haiwaan remakes Priyadarshan’s 2016 Malayalam thriller Oppam, which also starred Mohanlal and was directed by Priyadarshan. That connection adds another recognizable name, yet the Hindi version’s first weekend remained startlingly small for the package assembled around it. ## Monday Has Almost No Margin Left Koimoi has already labelled the film a washout and projected a worldwide lifetime below ₹20 crore. That forecast remains an outlet’s assessment, not a settled result, but the opening numbers explain its severity. Business Today took a more conditional view, saying Haiwaan would need a sharp Monday pickup or stronger word of mouth to change course. The immediate test is harsher than simply holding steady. Sunday was already the weakest of the first three days, domestic show count had fallen by nearly 40% from Friday, and two rival releases were drawing far larger crowds. Haiwaan enters the working week with ₹7.35 crore net in India and no weekend bounce to protect it. Its most revealing number may be 4,374: the remaining Sunday shows in which a two-star Priyadarshan thriller managed only ₹1.85 crore. ## How this piece was made **Format:** Editorial feature ## In this piece - [Saif Ali Khan](https://cinepixo.com/people/saif-ali-khan) - [Akshay Kumar](https://cinepixo.com/people/akshay-kumar) ## Sources - https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/haiwaan-worldwide-box-office-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khans-crime-thriller-wraps-its-first-weekend-below-12-crore/ - https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan - https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/box-office/story/haiwaan-box-office-day-3-akshay-saif-reunion-sees-no-spark-with-only-rs7-35-cr-collections-555332-2026-09-14 - https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan-starrer-slows-down/ar-AA2cawin - https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-3-saif-ali-khan-akshay-kumar-rs-7-cr-10876938/ - https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/box-office/2026/haiwaan-opening-weekend-box-office-collection-akshay-saifs-film-tanks-in-3-days-fails-to-touch-10cr-531081.html - https://www.newsx.com/uncategorized/haiwaan-box-office-collection-day-1-akshay-kumar-saif-ali-khan-film-opens-to-rs-3-crore-records-one-of-their-weakest-starts-270980/ Every factual claim above is drawn from these. The reading of them is ours. Source: https://cinepixo.com/blog/haiwaans-115-crore-weekend-leaves-no-room-for-a-monday-slide Written for CinePixo. Nothing on this page is imported prose.