Gadar 2 box office collection on Independence Day: 57 crores - India Bytes

New Delhi: The Gadar 2 mania continues with the Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel starrer making records at the Indian box office. As per early estimates, the movie reportedly earned around Rs 57 crore on August 15, making it the highest Independence Day box office collection for any Indian movie. Directed by Anil Sharma, Gadar hit the theatres on August 11 alongside Akshay Kumar starrer OMG 2.

The afternoon and evening shows for Gadar 2 are running at 100 percent occupancy across the country, according to a report in Pinkvilla. The film also delivered one of the best Monday collections in the history of Hindi cinema. After an impressive Rs 134 crore opening weekend, Gadar 2 collected over Rs 39 crore net on the fourth day of its release in India. Interestingly, Gadar 2 also defeated Rajinikanth starrer Jailer, which minted Rs 28 crore net in India on Monday.

Gadar 2 is set against the backdrop of the 1971 Indo-Pak war. In the sequel, Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) and Sakeena (Ameesha Patel) are in a happy marriage, and their son Charan Jeet Singh (played by Utkarsh Sharma, who also essayed the child’s role in 2001’s Gadar) is all grown up now. Their lives are all hunky-dory but a turn of events lands Charan Jeet in Pakistan. The video shows he’s being tortured. The trailer then confirms that Tara will return to Pakistan to save his son.