Jolly LLB 3 opens amid mixed day-one box office reports

Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi's much-anticipated courtroom drama Jolly LLB 3 opened in theatres across India on September 19, 2025, drawing strong early interest but producing uneven reports of its first-day box office haul. The third instalment, directed by Subhash Kapoor and featuring Saurabh Shukla, Amrita Rao, Huma Qureshi, Seema Biswas and Gajraj Rao, sold substantial advance tickets and generated lively word-of-mouth as audiences responded to its mix of humour and social drama focused on farmer suicides and land acquisition.

Estimates of the film's day-one net collections varied widely among industry trackers. Early tallies published at different times ranged from roughly Rs 3.9 crore to Rs 12.5 crore net, with interim figures reported throughout the day of about Rs 1.6 crore by early afternoon and approximately Rs 4.4 crore by late afternoon. Trade outlets also reported gross presales between about Rs 1.7 crore and Rs 3.2 crore, with reported presale ticket counts ranging from roughly 64,000 to more than 120,000 nationwide. Analysts cautioned that full-day reconciled figures would be available only after evening shows and accounting adjustments.