Blackmail is an Indian Hindi-language black comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Abhinay Deo, starring an ensemble cast including Irrfan Khan and Kirti Kulhari in the lead roles while Divya Dutta, Arunoday Singh and Omi Vaidya in supporting roles, produced under T-Series Films and RDP Motion Pictures banners.

Irrfan Khan, whose acting has always provoked admiration from the critics, will do at the BO. However, Irfan’s extensive acting talent has not achieved to move the box office numbers as well as filmmakers and his crowd of fans would have liked. The praise for Blackmail has come from all quarters whenever his film was released. The previous day, Shabana Azmi saw the film at a special screening and was dazed by the experience. So were other Bollywood A-listers. According to PTI, Azmi said, “‘Blackmail’ was performed with wild delight by a super cooperative cast led by Irrfan, Arunoday Singh and Divya Dutta.” Well, the initial reactions are in, but they by themselves, cannot script a winner. What also matters is the presence on the ground.

Blackmail movie box office collections:

As such, Blackmail is releasing in just 1861 screens Worldwide – 1550 screens in India and some 311 overseas. In comparison, Rani Mukerji starrer released in 1341 screens. Then there is the runaway success of the year, the Tiger Shroff starrer Baaghi 2. The film was released in  3500 screens of which 625 screens were overseas. As far as gatherings of these movies are concerned, then know that Hichki has collected Rs 37.50 cr till now and Baaghi 2 has grossed Rs 104.90 crore.

At first, glance what jumps into focus is Hindi Medium, which collected a whopping Rs 90.29 crore! However, none of his other movies has gone beyond into the three-figure mark. Take a look at these – Piku: Rs 79.77 crore, Talvar: Rs 30.17 crore, Jazbaa: Rs 25.23 crore, and Qarib Qarib Single: Rs 21.90 crore. Of course, Piku was an Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone starrer in which Irrfan played a stellar part.

For instance, while Baaghi 2 was expected by many to earn at the most Rs 12 cr on the first day, it earned a whopping Rs 25 Cr. Over and above that, it has even entered the exclusive Rs.100 crore club!