By Thamanna Sadique
The Vicky Kaushal and Rashmika Mandanna film Chhaava experienced tremendous success during its second box office weekend. The film collected impressive box office numbers on Sunday despite minimal drop due to the India-Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025 match. The Sunday performance of Chhaava earned Rs 40 crore and totaled Rs 326.75 crore in the domestic market according to Sacnilk.
During its initial week at the box office the film accumulated Rs 219.25 crore. Chhaava began its second weekend by bringing in Rs 23.5 crore during the opening day of Friday. On Saturday the movie skyrocketed to 87.23 percent above its previous performance and collected Rs 44 crore. Even though Sunday collections decreased slightly Chhaava achieved its position within the Rs 300 crore club successfully. Vicky Kaushal established his first commercial success as a leading actor with this achievement. Within its run Sanju managed to reach Rs 300 crore at the box office under his supporting character. Rashmika Mandanna entered the Rs 300 crore club for the third time following her performances in Pushpa 2 and Animal.
Throughout Sunday the movie kept its 54.63 percent audience involvement. Pune emerged on top with 84.75% audience occupancy while Chennai recorded 83.25% and Mumbai brought in 75.25% and Bengaluru reached 56.50% and Hyderabad maintained 53% viewership. The cities demonstrated the strongest patronage toward Chhaava which resulted in its prosperous second-Sunday turnout.
At the 98th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan inaugural function Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged Chhaava with a special mention. According to him in that moment “It is Maharashtra and Mumbai which have elevated Hindi cinema together with Marathi cinema.” Today Chhaava creates a megawatt effect whereas Maharashtra and Mumbai serve as the forces that elevated Marathi movies together with Hindi films. Chhaava has become the talk of the town during this present time.
The directorial vision of Laxman Utekar assembled five actors alongside Akshaye Khanna who performed pivotal parts in the movie with Ashutosh Rana, Divya Dutta, Vineet Kumar Singh and Santosh Juvekar.