Director-actor Uppendra’s recently released dystopian sci-fi-film ‘UI’ is making impressive collections at the box office.
According to the Sacnilk website, the Uppendra starrer collected Rs 18.30 crores from India in just 3 days. On day 3 the movie collected Rs 5.75 crores as per the early estimates by the website.
‘UI’ collected an impressive Rs 6.95 crore from India on its opening day with shares from Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil Nadu, and Hindi amounting to Rs 6.25 crore, Rs 65 lakh, Rs 4 lakhs, and Rs 1 lakh respectively.
On day 2, the Uppendra’s directorial collected Rs 5.6 crores from India. The movie collected Rs 4.85 crores from Karnataka, Telugu Rs 72 lakhs, Tamil Nadu Rs 2 lakhs and Hindi Rs 1 lakh.
‘UI’ had an overall 67.23 percent Kannada occupancy with morning shows at 34.47 percent, afternoon shows at 74.89 percent, evening shows at 89.24 percent, and night shows at 70.30 percent.
Coming to the Telugu occupancy rates, the movie had an overall 32.54 percent occupancy from the region with morning shows at 12.66 percent, afternoon shows at 33.62 percent, evening shows at 45.19 percent, and night shows at 38.70 percent.
ETimes rated the Uppendra starrer with 3 out of 5 stars and our review reads, “Breaking away from the commercial tropes of hero, heroine, action sequences and comedy, Upendra, in UI, makes ‘U’ and ‘I’, the lead characters. In a dual role that metaphorically speaks for itself, Upendra is ‘Satya’, a do-gooder stereotypically dressed in white, and a baddie ‘Kalki’, again, stereotypically, dressed in black. Satya wants to bring back the righteousness that supposedly existed in Satyayuga, while Kalki, obviously, is against it. And if you ask who wins in the end, it is Upendra’s political views.”