Raid 2 Box Office Collection shows Ajay Devgn is back in the game once more. Singham Again may not have made an entry with a bang, but Raid 2 seems certain to redeem him.
Raid 2 Box Office Collection Day 1: A Powerful Opening for Ajay Devgn
The advance bookings had shown good sales, but the spot bookings would probably overshadow them. The crime thriller had rendered the third opening capacity across Bollywood in 2025. Scroll down for early trends, day 1.
It was looked at that the directorial debut of Raj Kumar Gupta would gather nearly 15 crores on day one.
By the way, the last few hours of advance booking made it clear that there was a storm coming at the box office. As the positive responses started coming in, the spot bookings worked their magic.
As per early trends, Raid 2 had collected about 19-21 crores in the first day at the Indian box office. It is also interesting to note that the film is quite underscreened due to the competition with Kesari Chapter 2, Jaat, Ground Zero, and Andaz Apna Apna.
However, it remained an absolute hit at the ticket window and became the first choice of audience at the moment. This opening weekend promises to go down in the record books!
Raid 2 vs other offerings made by Bollywood in the year 2025
It surpassed most of the Bollywood products in 2025, such as Sky Force, Jaat, and Kesari Chapter 2, on the opening day. It obviously counts much with 33.10 crores, while Sikandar also scored well with 30.06 crores.
Raid 2 vs Ajay Devgn: highest opening day collections
Needless to say, Ajay Devgn has
Looking at the top 5 all-time openers of Ajay Devgn:
1. Singham Again: 43.70 cr
2. Golmaal Again: 30.14 cr
3. Singham Returns: 32 cr
4. Raid 2: 19-21 cr (estimates)
5. Total Dhamaal: 16.50 cr
While survived by the rage of star Ajay Devgn and slaughter by Riteish Deshmukh as the antagonist, Raid 2 is fraught with simple contrivances. The result is far from what the film aspired for, with decidedly restrained performances, which can hardly save the film from bloody boredom.
Put simply, whatever efforts Raid 2 had made to appear and feel different from its antecedent went to waste.
The plot is littered with all kinds of situations and characters, mainly political men, lawyers, and officers-all stock figures in a crusade-against-corruption drama like this one-whose presence rarely awakens any sort of appeal. The net result is just one almighty cavity hard to crawl out from.
Not that the filmmakers have not tried. The screenplay cleverly undermines the key dramatic moments-by keeping the set-to-shoot exchanges between both Devgn and Deshmukh on the outskirts of reality-but the traps these two characters get into both separately and together not only fail to generate any energy but also stray too far from credibility. The collision between the two conflicting impulses is jarring.
Raid 2 casts a very wide net in its narrative but does not have an ounce to rub together when it comes to using what would have gone a long way toward bringing all these different strands into its ambit genuinely and yet it makes a hash of it.
This dragging plot flits from one event to another to cement the notion that the protagonist is a moral absolutist and the bad guy a two-faced double dork. It never gets to a sweet spot.
That’s where Raid 2 goes wrong. Sure, Raid would be quite a hard act to follow, but this sequel doesn’t help its case by resorting to such hopelessly clichéd devices.
It features a tough deputy income tax commissioner pitted against Manohar Dhankar alias Dadabhai (Deshmukh) – a saintly politician-philanthropist revered by the small town of Bhoj, making his empire impregnable.
Note: Box office numbers are based on estimates and various sources. Numbers have not been independently verified by Top News Trendings.
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