Samantha Ruth Prabhu starrer Shaakuntalam grosses less than ₹10 cr worldwide

Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s latest release Shaakuntalam has turned out to be a box office dud. In its opening weekend globally, the Gunasekhar directorial, which was dubbed and released in Tamil as well as Hindi, has not managed to gross over ₹10 crore, which is reportedly the lowest opening for a film made over a budget of ₹50 crore.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu has been promoting her film Shaakuntalam for the last couple of weeks. Since, the film released on 14 April it has not performed well and disappointed the audience. The Gunasekhar directorial made with a budget of ₹50 crore didn’t even gross ₹10 crore in the opening weekend.

Trade analyst Trinath told HT that the film has turned out to be a disaster at the box office with the lowest opening ever for a Samantha-starrer. “Samantha’s films have always managed to register good to decent openings. Even her last release Yashoda, despite mixed reviews, opened strongly at the box office. Shaakuntalam was rejected from the first show and after collecting around ₹5 crore on the first day worldwide, the film couldn’t recover at all. In the opening weekend, it didn’t even collect over ₹10 crore globally,” Trinath said.

Telugu trade portal Andhra Box Office also took to Twitter on Monday to share that Shaakuntalam has registered the lowest opener for a film made on a budget of over ₹50 crore.“Shaakuntalam: 1st time ever in Telugu cinema’s history, a film made in big budget ( ₹50 crore plus, makers claim up to ₹80 crore) failed to gross double digits in its opening weekend. A box office disaster of the highest order! Non-theatricals can’t save the day either with satellite pending (sic),” the tweet read.