{
  "id": 1640098,
  "title": "Emraan Hashmi's Awarapan 2 Beats Sunny Deol's Batwara 1947 At The Box Office With A Huge Margin",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/emraan-hashmis-awarapan-2-beats-sunny-deols-batwara-1947-at-the-box",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-18T04:13:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/emraan-hashmis-awarapan-2-beats-sunny-deols-batwara-1947-at-the-box-office-with-a-huge-margin"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On the occasion of India’s 80th Independence Day, our local cinema heroes took charge. Spider-Man: Brand New Day played to houseful shows. But it was one Bollywood hero—Emraan Hashmi—who rewrote the box office rules. Sunny days were short lived ₹25.43 cr is the first weekend collection of the Rajkumar Santoshi-Sunny Deol partition drama Batwara 1947, produced by Aamir Khan. Truth is stranger than…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Awarapan 2, Batwara 1947 Box Office Collection Day 4 Prediction: Will Emraan Hashmi's Film & Sunny Deol Starrer Pass The Monday Test?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/awarapan-2-batwara-1947-box-office-collection-day-4-prediction-will",
        "published": "2026-08-17T13:33:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Vishwanath and Sons Box Office Collection Worldwide Day 4: Suriya’s film fails Monday test, earns Rs 121 cr",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/vishwanath-and-sons-box-office-collection-worldwide-day-4-suriyas",
        "published": "2026-08-18T07:01:23.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}