Nikhil’s Shankarabharanam dipped in the Telugu States from today, but the agony of Overseas buyers is even miserable. The movie sank there even in the weekend. Due to the negative reviews and bad word of mouth, the occupancy in the theaters playing Shankarabharanam took a beating.
The movie just managed $14K from 66 screens in Saturday taking the total till Saturday t0 $43,883 which is very poor. They say the crowds at the film theaters for Sunday are even discouraging.
According to the trade experts, the buyers will not even recover the costs of the publicity, rents and Publicity with these collections. They invested big on the film due to Nikhil’s recent success streak and Kona Venkat’s involvement.