Akshay Kumar’s new comedy entertainment film Welcome to the Jungle has been met with a thundering response at the Indian box office and has already received ₹40.42 crore nett in two days. With Ahmed Khan directing, it was soon a crowd‑pleaser and sold out shows in the Hindi heartland.
The film got its first previews at ₹4.07 crore on Thursday and a nice Friday collection of ₹15.33 crore. The movie was very big on Saturday and earned ₹21.02 crore, which is blockbuster status. The audience reaction was very positive with many calling the film a “proper stress buster” which is bringing back the fun of Welcome.
In particular Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where family audiences are showing up to cinema halls in record numbers, BookMyShow reported a total of 403,000 tickets sold on Saturday alone, which speaks to how popular the movie is. With Sunday morning shows already full of house crowds, trade experts are forecasting a ₹65–70 crore weekend, which would easily place it among the year’s biggest comedy hits.
And the ensemble cast has been an attraction. Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever and Arshad Warsi are among the actors who have provided the film with a lot of comic timing and chemistry. The nostalgia, slapstick humour and energetic performances resonated with the public, in single-screen and multiplex theaters.
Welcome to the Jungle is the perfect time of year and is a perfect fit for the studio calendar: When audiences wanted light fun and laughter and family fun to go to, the timing is right, industry observers say.
On the whole, Welcome to the Jungle has made a good start with a huge start from the start to finish of the campaign as Welcome to the Jungle has already made a fantastic start in two days (around ₹40 crore in two days and is going to become a huge hit with a huge weekend ahead of all the hype of the film), with the success of Welcome to the Jungle, and with Akshay Kumar’s star power, Ahmed Khan’s direction, and the ensemble’s comic brilliance, the film has cemented the continued popularity of Welcome to the Jungle and could become one of the most successful comedy films of 2026.
