Film Industry: BOX OFFICE REPORT: HRITHIK OVERTAKES SALMAN AND SRK

BOX OFFICE REPORT: HRITHIK OVERTAKES SALMAN AND SRK

    In what is seen as the growing impact of Hindi cinema week after week, Rakesh Roshan’s super-hero thriller Krrish3 has shattered all box office records.
The film opened wide, with a count of 3,700 screens in Hindi, while 500 extra were allotted for Tamil and Telugu. This Bollywood offering started with an approximate 21.5 crore on Dhanteras. But distributors and exhibitors across the country said even 21.5 crore is fantastic, because no other film has dared to release pre-Diwali. From Monday, the screen count increased by 150 because several parts of Central India and even the North do not release films pre-Diwali.
    While the first three days’ total added up to 65 crore, with an additional 5.25 crore coming from the regional languages, Krrish showed his magical powers to the fullest when he broke all previous one-day records by collecting 35.10 crore on Monday — November 4, a date that will be marked in Indian film history.
    It was the original release date set for the film and the intention, even when it was first scheduled, was to break all previous records, which it did. Krrish3 has now broken the records of films like Ek Tha Tiger ( 30.72 crore) and Chennai Express ( 29.37 crore).
    Krrish3 also collected 24 crore (GBOC) in its opening period from abroad, a fact corroborated by the Roshans.
    The trade maintained that the film looked bombastic on Tuesday, which is an optional holiday, on account of Bhai Dooj or the Tikka ceremony. It now appears like 100 crore is a four-to-fiveday affair for superstars like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan. In fact, the producers have said that they had reached 108.61 crore in four days from 4450 screens.