After
a
drab
2020
for
the
Hindi
film
industry
owing
to
the
COVID-19
pandemic,
Janhvi
Kapoor's
horror
comedy
Roohi
is
the
first
Bollywood
mainstream
film
to
release
in
theatres
post
the
lockdown.
Also
starring
Rajkummar
Rao
and
Varun
Sharma
in
pivotal
roles,
the
film
opened
to
mixed
reviews
from
the
critics.
However,
in
terms
of
the
box
office
numbers,
Roohi
ended
the
dry
spell
at
the
ticket
counters
and
raked
in
some
impressive
moolah
on
Day
1
of
its
release.
The
Janhvi
Kapoor-Rajkummar
Rao
starrer
had
an
opening
collection
of
Rs
3.06
crore
on
Thursday
(March
11,
2021).
Speaking
about
its
performance
at
the
box
office
on
Day
2,
Roohi
which
released
on
Maha
Shivratri,
faced
a
normal
25%
drop
in
its
collection
post
holiday
and
minted
Rs.
2.25
crore
on
Friday.
The
total
box
office
collection
now
stands
Rs.
5.31
crore
nett
(India).
Recently,
in
a
tete-a-tete
with
Bollywood
Hungama,
Janhvi
opened
up
about
how
she
bagged
Roohi.
The
Dhadak
actress
revealed
that
she
went
up
to
producer
Dinesh
Vijan
herself
when
she
heard
he
was
making
this
film.
Janhvi
said
that
the
single
line
description
of
"a
girl
being
possessed
by
a
chudail
and
one
man
being
in
love
with
the
girl
and
the
other
with
the
chudail" was
enough
to
get
interested
in
taking
up
the
film.
Meanwhile,
while
talking
about
how
Janhvi
had
to
undergo
"multiple
look
tests"
for
her
role,
director
Hardik
Mehta
had
shared
in
an
interview,
"We
did
multiple
look
tests
to
arrive
at
a
combination
of
prosthetics
and
VFX
to
create
the
look
for
Janhvi.
What
really
surprised
me
was
the
switch
that
Janhvi
would
make
as
soon
as
prosthetics
would
come
into
play,
and
her
whole
body
language
and
voice
would
change
to
that
of
her
witch
character."