Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar starrer action thriller film `Wazir` collected Rs.5.57 crore on its first day.

The Bejoy Nambiar directorial, which released on Friday, has received a good response in multiplexes. The film collected Rs.4.07 crore overseas on first day, thus taking its opening day worldwide total to Rs.9.64 crore.

`It is very touching that a film which opened at 10 percent was running at 80-90 percent in most cinemas by the time the day ended on Friday. It is running to almost full houses today (Saturday), and I'm grateful to my audience for that,` filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced the film, said in a statement.

The film, which also stars Aditi Rao Hydari, Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham among others, tells the story of two unusual friends - a paralysed chess grandmaster (Amitabh) and a grief stricken ATS officer (Farhan).