The first week collection reports of the film are out and it has earned around Rs 23.75 Crore. As Durga Rani Singh, the protagonist of Kahaani 2, which is not a sequel to the first part, but a stand-alone second instalment of a series that director Sujoy Ghosh is interested in fashioning. The first Kahaani had Balan play a heavily pregnant woman in search of a missing husband.Sujoy Ghosh's thriller 'Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh, ' starring Vidya Balan as the protagonist, has turned out to be a slow performer at the box-office.