Emraan Hashmi’s Awarapan 2 and Sunny Deol’s Batwara 1947 are both arriving in cinemas on August 14. Batwara 1947, meanwhile, has registered around Rs 87,380 across 42 tracked shows in Hyderabad. Awarapan 2 has crossed 319K interested users, while Batwara 1947 stands at over 137K. Batwara 1947 displayed 8.94K bookings over 24 hours, which means the two figures cannot be compared directly despite the latter appearing bigger at first glance. Batwara 1947, starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta and Shabana Azmi, carries the backing of Aamir Khan Productions and an Independence Day-friendly Partition theme.