Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma’s Sultan is everything Bollywood box office had hoped for. After a sluggish six months, the BO is ringing with ticket sales during the first weekend of Sultan’s release.
The Salman Khan film has made Rs 142.6 crore in four days and with the fifth-day collections on Sunday, the weekend box office is expected to be over Rs 175 crore. Theatres are going full and the film is expected to earn over Rs 35 crore in ticket sales on the fifth day as well. If all goes well, the film’s earnings would be around Rs 175 crore.
The movie has broken many records, some of which belonged to Salman Khan himself.
This is Salman Khan’s tenth movie to cross Rs. 100 crore mark and with Sultan the superstar now holds the record of maximum films in the Rs. 100 crore club followed by Shah Rukh Khan who has six films to his name.
The huge collection means that the film has already surpassed Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Rs 129.7 crore) and Happy New Year’s (Rs 108.8 crore) record to become the highest opening weekend grosser before Sunday even arrived.
Sultan is the biggest opener of 2016, the film has done the highest business of all Salman Khan films and it has broken all records of this year. With its four-day collections, it is already the biggest grosser of the year having eclipsed the lifetime collections of Airlift (Rs 127.8 crore) and Housefull 3 (Rs 107.7 crore).
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh termed Sultan’s run ‘sensational’. “#Sultan continued its HISTORIC run on Sat, smashing records left, right and centre… Rewriting the rules of Hindi film biz… SENSATIONAL! #Sultan is UNSTOPPABLE… Setting new BENCHMARKS… Wed 36.54 cr, Thu 37.32 cr, Fri 31.66 cr, Sat 37.10 cr. Total: Rs 142.62 cr. India biz.”
The film is now quite close to the entire lifetime collections of the biggest grosser of the year so far, The Jungle Book that made Rs 184.5 crore.
Courtesy: Indian Express