Kalki 2898 AD box office collection Day 1: Prabhas-starrer becomes ...
Kalki 2898 AD box office collection Day 1: The Nag Ashwin film has crossed the collection of KGF Chapter 2.
Kalki 2898 AD seems to have lifted the curse off the Indian box office as the film has emerged as the biggest box office opener of this year. As per industry tracker Sacnilk, Kalki 2898 AD has made Rs 95 crore nett in India on its first day. The gross collection in India is estimated at Rs 115 crore and combined with an estimated overseas collection of Rs 65 crore, the opening day numbers of the film are Rs 180 crore.
The film has released in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam and in India, the film collected the maximum money with its Telugu version. Out of the Rs 95 crore nett collection, Rs 64.5 crore came from Telugu. This was followed by Rs 24 crore in Hindi, Rs 4 crore in Tamil. Rs 2.2 crore in Malayalam and Rs 30 lakh in Kannada. Kalki 2898 AD saw an overall occupancy of 85.15 percent in Telugu.
Kalki 2898 AD’s nett collection is Rs 20 crore more than last year’s biggest hit Jawan, starring Shah Rukh Khan, which made Rs 75 crore on its opening day. Jawan went on to do Rs 1,160 crore worldwide and made Rs 640.25 crore nett in India.
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Kalki 2898 AD is the third biggest Indian opener and has surpassed the collection of Yash-starrer KGF Chapter 2, which made Rs 159 crore on its opening day. The first two spots are held by SS Rajamouli’s films RRR and Baahubali 2. RRR, which eventually won an Oscar, made Rs 223 crore on its opening day. And Baahubali 2, which also starred Prabhas, made Rs 217 crore on its first day.
In terms of nett collection, RRR made Rs 133 crore on its opening day, followed by Baahubali 2, which made Rs 121 crore. Even though KGF 2’s gross collection has been surpassed by Kalki 2898 AD, the record of its nett collection has not been broken by Prabhas’ film. KGF 2 had made Rs 116 crore nett on its opening day.
Going by the opening numbers, Kalki 2898 AD is looking at a strong weekend ahead. It was previously predicted that the film might make Rs 500 crore during the first weekend and now, it is to be seen if the film actually can pull in the audience over the weekend.
The Nag Ashwin film also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Kamal Haasan and has cameos by Dulquer Salmaan, Vijay Deverakonda, SS Rajamouli among many others.
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