Tubelight Box Office Collection Day 8: Salman Khan's 'Rejected' Film Collects Rs 2 Crore More

New Delhi: Salman Khan's Tubelight started its second week at the box office on a low not by pocketing Rs 2 crore on Friday, reports Box Office India. On Friday, trade analyst Taran Adarsh said that audiences 'rejected' Tubelight, which had collected merely Rs 106.86 crore in a week. Tubelight, like its name, flickered past the 100-crore benchmark. Salman Khan's other Eid releases like Kick, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Ek Tha Tiger and Sultan have performed far better when they released. Tubelight is Salman Khan's third collaboration with director Kabir Khan after Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015).

Tubelight aimed to score big box office number with the tried and tested formula of Bajrangi Bhaijaan but Kabir Khan and Salman's film completely backfired on them. Film critics and cine-lovers unanimously panned Tubelight.

Film critic Raja Sen reviewed the film for NDTV and wrote Tubelight "is possibly the worst performance of Salman's chequered career." He added that Tubelight "means well" but is "rendered unwatchable because of the leading man." Raja Sen gave Chinese actress Zhu Zhu and Itanagar-based Matin Rey Tangu a thumbs-up. "We get fine performances from bright Chinese actress Zhu Zhu and, most memorably, moon-faced child Matin Rey Tangu, who should have swiftly replaced the lead," he wrote. He gave the film one star out of five.

Tubelight is set during the 1962 Indo-China war and it is the story of Laxman (Salman Khan), who is desperate to find his brother Bharat (Sohail Khan), who goes MIA during the war. Tubelight also stars Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and late actor Om Puri.