Box Office – Chandu Champion has a fair start, word of mouth is very good(Photo Credit –YouTube)

Less than a year after SatyaPrem Ki Katha, Kartik Aaryan is back on the big screen with Chandu Champion. The film is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala who had also produced SatyaPrem Ki Katha and all eyes were on how this sports biopic would open at the box office. The director of this film, Kabir Khan, had last directed This Is 83, which too was a sports drama and this time around it was obvious on the basis of Chandu Champion’s trailer that emotions will have a large role to play.

A double digit start would have been really apt for the film given the credentials involved as well as the scale and budget. However, the collections have come to 5.40 crores which is just about fair. That said, box office has anyways become quite...