Drishyam 3 opens with Rs 66.75 crore, Devgn’s career-best day

Indian Opinion Analysis

TV9 Hindi reports with a pronounced sensationalist tone, billing the collection as a 'dhamaka' that broke the records of *Pathaan*, *Dhurandhar*, and *Animal* and declaring it Ajay Devgn's career-best opening day. Amar Ujala reports the same opening-day net of Rs 66.75 crore in comparatively neutral, wire-style language, leading with the fact and keeping hyperbole to routine promotional copy. Where Amar Ujala ends on a measured 'figures may rise further', TV9 Hindu builds speculation into the next weekend's record possibilities. The uniform coverage is the shared core figure of Rs 66.75 crore net in India, the difference lies in whether a rival's gross (TV9 Hindu's Rs 80.10 crore) is stated as a yardstick and whether the language is breathless or matter-of-fact. The balanced reading is that *Drishyam 3* opened strongly, surpassing Devgn's prior best *Singham Again* by a wide margin, and its performance against benchmarks depends on which metric, net, gross domestic, or gross worldwide, is chosen.