Awarapan 2 Creates Box Office History in Just Hours: Emraan Hashmi’s Comeback Storm Leaves Original Film Far Behind

According to Sacnilk, Awarapan 2 has already earned over ₹18.57 crore net by 9 pm on its release day. This makes the film the highest-earning title in the fledgling franchise already. The first Awarapan, released in 2007, was a box office failure and earned only ₹7.76 crore during its lifetime. Awarapan 2 took all of 8 hours to cross that mark.

Awarapan 2 has been selling over 20k tickets per hour on BookMyShow all through Friday. This is a remarkable pace for any film without a superstar. This means that it will cross not just ₹10 crore but, in all likelihood, ₹20 crore on its first day itself. This makes it the biggest opening of Emraan Hashmi’s career. So far, only two of Emraan’s films have had double-digit openings. Raaz 2 opened at ₹10.35 crore in 2012. The record for Emraan was then broken by Baadshaho, which earned ₹12.60 crore on its release day in 2017. Awarapan will easily leave both titles in the dust with its pace.
The first Awarapan had an opening-day collection of ₹79 lakh and netted ₹ 2.88 crore in its first weekend. Even after accounting for inflation, this was a low figure.

Emraan Hashmi in Awarapan 2 as the sequel records a sensational opening-day performance and surpasses the original film’s lifetime box office collection within hours of release.

Awarapan 2 box office collection day 1: Emraan Hashmi’s Shivam Pandit has finally got his due at the box office, it seems. Awarapan 2, the sequel, got off to a record-breaking start at the ticket window, poised to shatter records for Emraan Hashmi and Vishesh Films. It has also already surpassed the lifetime collection of Awarapan, the first part, before the end of day 1. Awarapan 2 is tracking to have one of the biggest openings for Bollywood in 2026 and has comfortably outpaced Batwara 1947, the Sunny Deol-starrer that clashed with it at the box office on August 14.