After a promising start, the political drama Game Changer—starring Ram Charan and Kiara Advani—has been experiencing a marked decline at the box office. The film, which grossed ₹51 crore on its opening day in India, suffered a sharp 57.65 percent drop in earnings, making only ₹21.6 crore on its second day.
On the third day, the film saw a further decline of 26.39 percent, earning just ₹15.9 crore. The downward trend continued on the fourth day, as Game Changer struggled to bring in ₹8.5 crore on its first Monday. As a result, the film’s total box office earnings in India have reached approximately ₹97 crore, with projections suggesting that it will surpass the ₹100 crore mark today.
Despite the falling numbers, Game Changer has reported varying occupancy across regions: 20.58 percent for its Telugu shows, 14.22 percent for Tamil, and 8.16 percent for Hindi, according to the film trade portal Sacnilk.
In addition to its box office performance, Game Changer has been embroiled in controversy. Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma took to social media to accuse the film’s team of inflating its box office numbers. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Varma claimed that the film’s creators had undermined the achievements of southern cinema by allegedly fabricating figures.
Varma expressed his disbelief at the “unbelievably naive lies” surrounding the film’s reported earnings, insisting that the fraud was not in line with the grounded realism of producer Dil Raju, whom he defended against the allegations.
The controversy stems from discrepancies in the reported box office figures. While Game Changer’s official social media accounts claimed a worldwide gross of ₹186 crore, trade analysts pointed out that the actual worldwide earnings on day one were closer to ₹80 crore. According to Sacnilk, the film’s India net collection on day one stood at ₹51 crore, with an additional ₹19 crore from overseas markets, bringing the worldwide total to ₹80 crore.
This stark difference in reported earnings has raised concerns among trade analysts, who have called for more transparency in the reporting of box office numbers and criticized the makers for inflating the figures by an estimated ₹100 crore.
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