In our weekly column today, we highlight the silver lining in Bollywood’s cloud.

It’s not pouring cats and dogs at the box office (BO), like it has been in your backyard for the last three days. However, the good news is that the Bollywood BO cloud has a silver lining.

Safe, not sorry

Movies which released in the second half of June 2026 and the first week of July 2026 have managed to keep the ticket windows busy. Two films that came in the first fortnight of June — Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata with Kangana Ranaut and Governor: The Silent Saviour with Manoj Bajpayee — proved to be damp squibs, while one — Imtiaz Ali’s Main Vaapas Aaunga — is currently in the average category. There are the less-enlightened sorts who are tagging it a “sleeper hit”, but this film has reportedly only earned an estimated Rs 57.63 crore till Sunday, July 5. Now, this kind of yo-yoing gives the Hindi cinema industry no cause to celebrate, but at least it has no cause to mourn either. Bollywood is keeping afloat, which itself is a monsoon miracle.

Cocktail 2 seems heady enough