• On its second day of release, the horror comedy Phone Bhoot starring Katrina Kaif experienced a respectable rise of about 34%.
• On Saturday, the movie brought in 2.75 crore rupees.
• The film also stars Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi, opened in theatres on Friday to mostly favorable reviews.

On its second day of release, the horror comedy Phone Bhoot starring Katrina Kaif experienced a respectable rise of about 34%. On Saturday, the movie brought in 2.75 crore rupees. The film also stars Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi opened in theatres on Friday to mostly favorable reviews.

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Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted on Sunday, sharing the movie’s box office haul: “#PhoneBhoot sees rise on Day 2 [+34.15%]… For a respectable weekend total, Day 3 needs to be given an extra push. The #INDvZIM cricket match, nevertheless, might have an impact on business. Sat 2.75 cr, Friday 2.05 cr. 4.80 crore in total, #India business.

The film was released, Janhvi Kapoor’s Mili, Sonakshi Sinha’s Double XL, and both of those movies underperformed Katrina’s movie. In Phone Bhoot, Katrina plays a ghost who approaches Siddhant and Ishaan Khatter, two inexperienced ghostbusters, with a business proposition. They then defeat Jackie Shroff’s portrayal of an equally entertaining opponent.

The review of the money is “occasionally enjoyable”. “Phone Bhoot is a promising film. It is a smartly written but not quite so well-executed effort that has its pros and several cons as well. It is a decent addition to the growing horror comedy genre in Bollywood. It’s not quite Stree in terms of hilarity and innovation but it’s not as bad as Roohi either.”

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Gurmmeet Singh of Mirzapur fame is directing the movie, which is produced by Excel Entertainment, the company owned by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. Additionally, the production company and Diamond Toons worked together to create a unique comic book series for Phone Bhoot. As part of the collaboration, Diamond Toons will release a comic in which Chacha Chaudhary and his sidekick Sabu embark on a new adventure, and three major characters from this movie appear.