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10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Sitaare Zameen Par Box Office Collection Day 1: Aamir Khan-starrer sees slow start; mints THIS amount
Sitaare Zameen Par Box Office Collection Day 1: Aamir Khan's film Sitaare Zameen Par is predicted to have a slow start at the box office. The film was released on Friday. Directed by RS Prasanna, it is the spiritual sequel of Taare Zameen Par. According to industry tracker Sacnilk, Sitaare Zameen Par made a business of ₹ 4.76 crore on Friday, June 20. It is to be noted that this is the live data from the website and subject to changes. The final figures will be out post 10 pm. The Aamir Khan movie was reported to release in theatres with over ₹ 6 crore business on day 1 if advance booking is considered. As per the website, the film had sold 1,15,344 tickets for 9,542 shows in all languages nationwide in advance booking. Without blocked seats, the Aamir Khan sequel was poised to make a business of ₹ 3.31 crore from advance booking ticket sales. In total, the film was said to open with ₹ 6.88 crore gross earnings, including blocked seats. The film is following a strictly theatrical release policy which means it might not see its OTT release soon or ever. The film is also experimenting with several new strategies, as per a report of Bollywood Hungama. It is majorly clashing with Akshay Kumar's Housefull 5, which has now slowed down at the ticket window. Talking about Sitaare Zameen Par's box office performance trends and early estimates, film trade analyst Taran Adarsh told Live Mint that Aamir's film will rely on word-of-mouth. He said, "The advance booking is not in sync with the star status of Aamir Khan. Yes, the advances should have been better because Aamir Khan returns to the big screen after a big gap with his own production, starring in it. It should have been better. I genuinely believe Sitaare Zameen Par is a word-of-mouth film. It should grow with word of mouth.' Going by the early reviews from the audience, the film has been dubbed as a 'well-intentioned film.' Critics reviews also hailed Aamir Khan's performance in the film. Sitaare Zameen Par is said to be the Hindi remake of the 2018 Spanish film, Campeones. Besides Aamir, it also has Genelia D'Souza. It also features 10 special actors who marked their acting debut on this Friday.
Mint
12 hours ago
- Health
- Mint
Meet Saurabh Bothra, IITian-turned-yoga coach who has built a 1 crore-strong wellness community — one habit at a time
From a room in Nagpur, Maharashtra, to living rooms around the world, Saurabh Bothra has quietly but powerfully built a wellness revolution. An IIT alumnus and yoga enthusiast, he is the mind behind HaBuild. This "habit-building" platform began as his personal mission to help his mother fight frailty, and has grown into a community of nearly 10 million people. On International Yoga Day 2025, Saurabh Bothra says building consistency is the key to a healthy wellness routine. The 33-year-old's tryst with yoga began when he was 19 years old. He started roping his engineering juniors to practice yoga together when he was in the fourth year of college himself. But it was only after graduation that he took to learning how to teach yoga properly from the Art of Living International Center. What was the turning point? He says it was during Covid-19 when his mother asked him to suggest her four yoga poses for knee pain. He requested her to join his session, following which she would ask him to simplify terms like hamstring, glute muscles and more. "Once we started the solving problem for her, it became so simple for me to reach out to other moms. Many women tend to think that they do household work and that is exercise enough. But we started reaching out to more women, asking them to join our sessions and see if it makes any difference. We were doing free sessions initially, and then it just became viral," Bothra tells LiveMint in an interview. Today, his community has over 10 million users, who are gently nudged into making a habit of a wellness routine, not so much as a challenge, but as a lifestyle shift. Saurabh Bothra, also the face of the platform with a Yoga Everyday motto, eases you into the journey with guided yoga, breathwork, live check-ins, and community motivation, hoping people continue to simply "show up" day after day. I had severe asthma as a kid. I used to fall sick every day. There was some or the other allergy I would catch, my immunity was low and I was not able to play sports. This was norm. When I was in college, I happened to attend a yoga program without knowing it would help me with my asthma issue. I liked doing the practices they mentioned. After a few months, I realized my overall health felt better. When something is going wrong, you notice it faster. But when things are going right, it takes time for you to notice. So, it took me some time to realize that yoga was helping me. My grandfather had done his MBBS in 1955. So, there was already an interest around Ayurveda and naturopathy in the house. I happened to do engineering from IIT, but I was more interested in being a doctor or getting to know more about how the body functions. So there was an interest which got ignited when I started practicing yoga. Yes, I think the combination of engineering and the learnings that my grandfather gave us, is very important. While we teach yoga online, there is so much that happens with the technology that makes it come to life. Otherwise, it is so difficult as we have almost 1.03 crore people who have signed up for our program. It would be impossible to be able to deal with this without the technology background. Saurabh Bothra says his wellness platform is aimed at mothers. After teaching yoga for around seven years during my voluntary work, I realized that it was so difficult for people to become consistent with it. I was trying to make people more aware about the benefits of yoga, but it was not helping in any way. During Covid-19, I had enough time to understand how to make a habit out of yoga. I genuinely wanted people to make yoga a consistent part of their life. So, I started reading more about habits. I started experimenting with what I could do in the class so that people become more regular. We used the fundamentals of habit-building. Our mind needs instant gratification. In my classes, we give that by measuring the habit itself by tracking attendance. People care whether they are doing it or not, and if you start giving gratification, you can actually hook them to the habit part. The second thing I realized was that for habits to form, there is something called as variable reward. For that, we avoid telling people what's going to happen in the next class, and maintain variety. Education and awareness are significantly important. It is a lot of hard work to break the notion that a person has to be there for the entire 45-minute session. When someone signs up, we tell them that consistency does not have to be 45 minutes in a day. It can be also 5 minutes in a day. The focus should be on showing up. It is not even important to do it the right way or the perfect way initially. Just show up and do whatever your body allows. And most times, people actually end up doing the entire 45 minutes when they show up. Frequency becomes important. Remember how we brushed our teeth as kids even if we didn't want to? The frequency of doing it so many times made it so ingrained that now laziness, lack of motivation, sleeping late at night, waking up late doesn't matter to us. We still brush our teeth. That can happen with exercise also, if the frequency is high. Reading is one habit that I have struggled with. It is important for someone like me to read more to get more information, stay updated. So, I try to read blogs and shorter articles or summaries of big books. But it's very difficult for me to read. The moment I start reading, I go to sleep. That can work even if I have had 8 hours of proper deep sleep. There's only one book I genuinely feel made a big difference in my life, and I was able to complete it. That is Atomic Habits by James Clear. It gives me more ideas of what can I do for people to make their habits stronger. I think the West had a role to play to make yoga cool again. I don't think I'm someone who's making yoga cool or the platform is making it cool. In fact, we would say that we are creating a space for people to embrace their imperfection, right? Everyone wants to be perfect in every form, and I think HaBuild allows people to be themselves. We don't intend to make yoga cool at all or that's not what our goal is. If it's happening by the way, it's great. When you talk about Gen-Z, almost 20 percent of our audience is younger. We primarily intend to make our content for mothers. All our programs are designed to reach out to more moms, and when moms do something, they ensure that the entire house, including the husband, kids, parents and in-laws, are doing it too. A mom is usually the last person to do something consistently for herself. When she truly does something, it sets the right example for the entire house. That's how a whole mix of people are joining our sessions. I don't think we have done a good job in terms of packaging. I genuinely believe that if something is good, the packaging becomes less important. When we talk about dry fruits, the packaging may make it look more interesting, but the real value is in eating the dry fruit. When people realize that the dry fruit is good even if it does not have a good packaging, it will still get word-of-mouth publicity. I think what we have done is shown people that yoga is beneficial and more importantly how can you become consistent with it. When people see the benefit, they tell others. There are days that really get to me. My best practice to deal with stress is to go to sleep. So the days I'm busier, I go to sleep early so that I can make sure that my next day becomes better. When things go beyond my capacity to deal with it, I simply go to bed. Drink a lot of water. Get up from you seat and move around a lot more. Practice deep breathing. Sleep before 11 p.m. Workout for 45 minutes at least thrice a week. A sixth tip is - don't try to do everything together, otherwise we usually fail and go into the 'all-or-nothing' trap.
Mint
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Sitaare Zameen Par advance booking: Aamir Khan film eyeing ₹6 crore+ business on opening day, to rely on word of mouth
Sitaare Zameen Par advance booking: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is all set to bring back his magic on the big screen with his own production, Sitaare Zameen Par. The spiritual sequel of his hit film Taare Zameen Par, marks the acting debut of 10 special actors. The film will be out in theatres from 9 am onwards on Friday across India. Ahead of its highly anticipated release, advance booking figures offer an early glimpse into the film's box office prospects. According to industry tracker Sacnilk, Sitaare Zameen Par is all set to debut in theatres with over ₹ 6 crore business on day 1. Aamir's film will be screened in over 9,000 shows across India, an increase from the number of shows predicted on the website; As of Friday 8 am, Sitaare Zameen Par has so far sold 1,15,344 tickets for 9,542 shows in all languages nationwide. The film has now made a business of ₹ 3.31 crore from advance booking ticket sales. Considering blocked seats, the film is now set to open with ₹ 6.88 crore gross earnings. Delhi NCR is leading with the highest revenue from the early bookings, collecting ₹ 1.32 crore for 1,056 shows. Next on the list is Mumbai with ₹ 83.14 lakh gross earnings for 798 shows in the city. Talking about the film, trade analyst Taran Adarsh predicted to Live Mint, 'The advance booking is not in sync with the star status of Aamir Khan. Yes, the advances should have been better because Aamir Khan returns to the big screen after a big gap with his own production, starring in it. It should have been better. I genuinely believe Sitaare Zameen Par is a word-of-mouth film. It should grow with word of mouth.' Sitaare Zameen Par is directed by RS Prasanna. It also stars Genelia D'Souza. The film will majorly clash with Akshay Kumar's Housefull 5 at the ticket window. Adarsh shared how Aamir's film remains unbothered this week at the box office.
Mint
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Sitaare Zameen Par advance booking: Aamir Khan film eyeing ₹6 crore+ business on opening day, to rely on word of mouth
Sitaare Zameen Par advance booking: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is all set to bring back his magic on the big screen with his own production, Sitaare Zameen Par. The spiritual sequel of his hit film Taare Zameen Par, marks the acting debut of 10 special actors. The film will be out in theatres from 9 am onwards on Friday across India. Ahead of its highly anticipated release, advance booking figures offer an early glimpse into the film's box office prospects. According to industry tracker Sacnilk, Sitaare Zameen Par is all set to debut in theatres with over ₹ 6 crore business on day 1. Aamir's film will be screened in over 9,000 shows across India, an increase from the number of shows predicted on the website; As of Friday 8 am, Sitaare Zameen Par has so far sold 1,15,344 tickets for 9,542 shows in all languages nationwide. The film has now made a business of ₹ 3.31 crore from advance booking ticket sales. Considering blocked seats, the film is now set to open with ₹ 6.88 crore gross earnings. Delhi NCR is leading with the highest revenue from the early bookings, collecting ₹ 1.32 crore for 1,056 shows. Next on the list is Mumbai with ₹ 83.14 lakh gross earnings for 798 shows in the city. Talking about the film, trade analyst Taran Adarsh predicted to Live Mint, 'The advance booking is not in sync with the star status of Aamir Khan. Yes, the advances should have been better because Aamir Khan returns to the big screen after a big gap with his own production, starring in it. It should have been better. I genuinely believe Sitaare Zameen Par is a word-of-mouth film. It should grow with word of mouth.' Sitaare Zameen Par is directed by RS Prasanna. It also stars Genelia D'Souza. The film will majorly clash with Akshay Kumar's Housefull 5 at the ticket window. Adarsh shared how Aamir's film remains unbothered this week at the box office. 'The film enjoys the advantage of a solo release. There's Housefull 5, which will be entering the 3rd week tomorrow, so I guess there's not much of an opposition for this film. It's an open run as of now.'
Mint
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Samay Raina fans can't keep calm as India's Got Latent Clips returns to YouTube, ‘IGL will be back soon'
Samay Raina fans can't keep calm as India's Got Latent Clips channel has apparently returned to YouTube. Social media users claim that all the videos in the channel were made private after the Ranveer Allahbadia controversy. LiveMint could not independently verify the claim that the channel had 'returned' to YouTube since it could not be confirmed if it ever became private in the first place. It cannot be confirmed whether the channel is owned by Samay Raina or is a YouTube channel run by a fan. When we checked, the channel had 522 videos. It also includes clips of members-only episodes. Meanwhile, Samay Raina fans on Reddit have started celebrating the reported return. Many of them consider it a 'win' for the standup comedian. 'Sab Samay ka khel hai,' commented one user. 'Now that it has arrived, the Samay Raina channel will also return, right?' came from another. Another user observed, 'I watched a few clips, they have beeped out most of the abuses it seems before making them public.' However, not every fan thinks India's Got Latent will return. 'I don't think latent is gonna come back with all that has happened. No. Samay is very family-oriented and would not like his family to go through all that again. So, no,' wrote one user. 'He might start another show. Maybe, the podcast rumour is true and it was not just for ads but a way to show a glimpse,' the user added. However, another user contradicted, 'I have insider info, IGL will be back! Soon! But not in ways many people are expecting.' Samay Raina deleted all videos from his show India's Got Latent from YouTube after a major controversy involving guest Ranveer Allahbadia. Ranveer allegedly made 'inappropriate' comments on the show, which sparked backlash and led to multiple complaints across India. Shortly after the backlash, Samay shared on X (formerly Twitter) that he had deleted all the videos. He clarified that his aim was to make people laugh, not offend anyone. He admitted the situation had become too stressful to handle. With the videos gone, people wondered what would happen to the money earned from those videos. YouTube's policy says that if a creator breaks the rules, the platform may take action and hold back payments. However, no such action is expected for users who delete their videos. By removing all the episodes (or making them private) from the playlist, Samay Raina might have avoided YouTube's action against the violation of policies. He retained his channel to ensure visibility on YouTube and earn revenue in future.
