
Metro In Dino Box Office Collection Day 7: Sara Ali Khan, Aditya Roy Kapur's Film Manages To Earn Almost Rs 27 Crore
As per the same report by the industry tracker, Metro In Dino had an overall 13.79% Hindi Occupancy on the first Thursday. Featuring an ensemble cast of Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher, Sara Ali Khan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Konkona Sen Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Ali Fazal, the movie witnessed the maximum occupancy during the night shows at 18.61%.
The romantic drama movie saw 15.43% occupancy in the evening shows, 13.20% in the afternoon shows and finally about 7.91% in the morning shows.
Produced by T-Series and Anurag Basu Films, Metro In Dino delves into a series of heartfelt love stories of contemporary couples set in different metro cities - Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, and Bengaluru.
The Life in a… Metro follow-up also struck a chord with the star cast. In an exclusive conversation with NDTV, Konkona Sen Sharma revealed whether she is a hopeless romantic. "No, I don't think so. Even if there is a small part of me that is a hopeless romantic, there is a lot of me that is very practical and mature. I would say a larger part of me is not," she said.
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