How does the box office performance of Cocktail 2 compare to the original 2012 Cocktail film?

How Cocktail 2 stacks up against the 2012 original

Cocktail 2 had a bigger opening day than the 2012 Cocktail, but its total earnings (both in India and worldwide) landed lower – regardless of which tracking source you look at.

Opening day (India)

• Cocktail 2 opened at ₹13.10 – 13.50 crore nett [13][14].
• The original Cocktail exact opening‑day figure isn’t given in the evidence, but one report explicitly states that Cocktail 2 outperformed the original on day one in absolute terms [8].

So the sequel started noticeably stronger.

Worldwide gross

• Original (2012): ₹121.78 – 126 crore worldwide [3][4][5].
• Cocktail 2: one tracker listed the film at ₹99.6 crore worldwide [9][16]; a day‑6 report gave a higher number of ₹115.03 crore [15]. Even the larger figure is still below the original’s range.

India (domestic) performance

• Original India gross: ₹96.17 crore [4]; India nett: ₹71.24 crore [4].
• Cocktail 2 India gross: ₹80.73 – 82.37 crore [11][15]; India nett: ₹67.81 crore [1].

Both gross and nett collections for the sequel come in lower than the 2012 film’s domestic totals.

Other markets

• The original earned $1.0 million in the United States [6].
• No comparable North America or overseas figure for Cocktail 2 appears in the evidence. One outlier source claimed Cocktail 2 grossed only about ₹24 crore worldwide [18], but that number is wildly inconsistent with all other trackers and likely not reliable.

Summary

Cocktail 2 charged out of the gate better than the 2012 Cocktail, but its final box‑office totals – both India and worldwide – stayed below the original film’s performance [1][4][9][11][15].