Kesari Chapter 2 Box Office Collection Day 1: Akshay Kumar's Film Off To Slow Start, Earns ₹7.50 Crore In India

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh, starring Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday and R Madhavan hit the theatres on Friday, April 18. A spiritual sequel to Kesari (2019), the film’s plot is based on the book The Case That Shook the Empire by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.

Centred around the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which took place in Amritsar in 1919, the film has had a slow start at the box office and has earned Rs 7.50 crore in India on its first day, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. It failed to surpass the opening day collection of Akshay's previous film Sky Force, which earned Rs 11.25 crore (net) on Day 1.

However, Kesari Chapter 2 is expected to perform better, given the weekend release.

Akshay, who previously starred in Kesari, which was based on the Battle of Saragarhi, has stepped into the role of lawyer C. Sankaran Nair, who fought the British Raj in court after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Madhavan, who portrays Advocate Neville McKinley, represents the British Crown, while Panday plays the pivotal role of Dilreet Gill, a key supporter in Nair's legal battle.

It is a historical courtroom drama directed by Karan Singh Tyagi in his directorial debut and produced by Dharma Productions, Leo Media Collective, and Cape of Good Films.

Kesari Chapter 2 review

The Free Press Journal has give 3.5 stars to the film. Kesari Chapter 2 gets much better in the second half. It is filled with amazing courtroom and investigation scenes that will keep you hooked. The film's runtime is only 2 hours 15 minutes, and even in such a short time, Tyagi has wonderfully shown every detail. The climax, of course, takes the movie a notch higher, and for that, even Akshay Kumar deserves applause. It will surely give you goosebumps.