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This Friday sees the release of Parineeti Chopra starrer Saina. Based on the real-life story of ace badminton champion Saina Nehwal, the film is directed by Amol Gupte who has earlier made a sports film Hawaa Hawaai with Saqib Saleem, which was based on skating. This one has a more popular sport as its core theme and Saina Nehwal is a known entity as well.
The Parineeti Chopra starrer belongs to a genre that traditionally opens slow and then goes on to grow well over the weekend. In the pre-pandemic times, the film could have seen a start of around 3 crores on Friday and then if the word of mouth was good, it could well have seen a major jump on Saturday to find itself in 5-6 crores range. However, current times are the most uncertain of them all as just after the reopening of theatres, there is a return of pandemic as well. Hence, one can’t be certain of how audience footfalls would turn out to be.
