Bahubali 2 Day 1 Box Office Collection Report

S.S. Rajamouli’s Bahubali 2: The Conclusion has taken a historic opening at the box office. The occupancy is record-breaking across the board – north, east and west have all taken the best opening of the year – surpassing the opening of all Hindi films so far this year and competing with festive releases like Sultan, Dangal and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.

In the south, ‘Baahubali 2’ is recording close to 100% occupancy. The opening record of top Kannada film, ‘Hebulli’, featuring Karnataka’s top superstar, has been eclipsed by a distance in the morning. The all-time highest Kannada grosser, Kirik Party, will be surpassed in a matter of days as both regional and Hindi version have taken a earth-shattering opening.

In fact, several ‘preview’ shows of Bahubali 2: The Conclusion were held late last night in the South and almost all shows were filled to capacity.

Business in Tamilnadu was affected in the morning, as shows were cancelled at the last minute due to some financial settlement issue between the distributor and producers of the film. The issue is said to have been sorted out and shows are now running 12PM onwards. The advance is spectacular here and with the morning shows getting cancelled, the noon/evening/night shows will be packed to capacity.

Inspite of the fact that today is a working day, the people of Baahubali’s home state Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are celebrating it like a festival. Several offices are closed, with reports coming in that corporates have bulk-booked tickets for Friday. As expected, the occupancy has exceeded the capacity. Extra chairs are being added at single-screens, tickets in black are getting a huge premium.

In short, the country has probably never ever seen the kind of craze a film like ‘Bahubali 2’ has managed to generate. It isn’t quite like the hero worship of a Rajnikanth in Tamilnadu.. that level of insanity isn’t there, but the film itself is the superstar here.

When it comes to recovery, Bahubali 2 has been sold for record prices all across. The pre-release theatrical recovery (not including the various rights like satellite, music, digital etc), is 275-280 crore from Hindi and other regional versions. What that also means is, the film has to collect more than the lifetime business of the first film – just to attain ‘HIT’ status. The Hindi version will be a ‘HIT’ once the film crosses the 150-160 crore mark – which is around 30% more than the Hindi collections of the first film.

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77 Comments

  • today watched Bahubali fdfs
    great film ss rajamouli ur great director of our time
    we want Bahubali 3 part

  • Just watched.. Can surely this is best movie Ive seen in recent times n it will break all existing records

  • I hope producer don’t manipulate collection. Good movie deserve such high collection….!
    Next week release in Myanmar…! Excited to watch…!

  • #Bollywood s n real danger
    Now what our industry do in dis circumstances?
    Celebrate deir huge success or try 2 compete with them .
    But bollywood s totally depends on stardom aur stars risk nahi lete.
    Salman d biggest of all still doing d same thing , he s innocent n his films r also , srk experimenting but in d vey low lvl , aamir s doing grt but choose safe projects.
    Akki is deshbakhti ka dukan , Aj s insane , HR s confused
    So who will take d batton on his hand ?
    I guess nobody
    So enjoy #Bahubali
    Waiting for #2.0
    Entertainment n concept s eveything
    N south makers have both.

  • Its a long long way to break kannada film records .. Hebbuli made 106 crores .. Kirik party made close to 75 crores .. Raajakumara is still running to packed houses with collection of 75 + crores .. How can baahubali beat these collections in 1 day or even a month with screen capacity of 200+ theatres .. Indicine , have some sense of business before posting such articles

  • No offence @indicine, but u shouldn’t say ‘Hindi and regional versions….’, coz it appears as if it is a hindi movie dubbed in other languages. Bahubali is a Telugu film so the first priority must be Telugu. Pls do consider this. Otherwise love each and every word of ur articles.

  • Good. But what would ss rajamouli do after that? South manipulate collection. They don’t say clearly what is net and what is gross.

  • THIS IS INSANE !!!!!!
    Baahubali 2 Hindi version itself will challenge the lifetime collections of Dangal that too on a non-holiday without any big Bollywood star.

    Kudos to Rajamouli !!!!!

    Finally we have a movie which can match the craze of Sholay!!!!

  • The hard work of Rajamouli and Team for almost 5 years are now enjoying.. credit to one and all of the bahuballi team.. Need to take more such movies all over India..

  • Even Hollywood films are faring better than Bollywood films..

    And now South films have garnered unimaginable craze and patronization in Hindi markets !!!

    Problems which are plaguing bollywood is :-

    1) lack of creativity

    2) same boring flop ghisa pita rom coms like bkd,janu,half gf, hskd,adhm,bbd,htp ,bindu etc….

    3) nepotism — talentless star kids are given opportunities by Karan johar who makes rubbish films and he create a haux media pass to declare them hits…

    4) bollywood audiences are disappointed to see star kids like arjun kapoor, varun , and other nepotistic ppl given chances while real talent is left to b a struggler… this alienates the public from films who consider bollywood as family business of Kapoors and ghisa pita rom com Dharma…

  • Story is beyound the question why kattapa killed bahubali. i m the part of this history today, proud moment for the Indians and Indian Film Industries. this movie is sholey of my time i can say guarantied.

  • Watched Bahubali today.
    Not get in detailed review here. Just wanna say those who loved first movie, second will be treat for watch. Brilliantly made with superb story as a back drop of the reason behind “why katappa killed bahubali”. Audience loved the movie in the multiplex in Jaipur. 250cr should be cake walk of Hindi version. This movie has enough potential to gross 1000cr all India.
    As expected opening is earth shattering, probably the biggest pan India movie of this century who conquered north & south equally.

    on a side note, sad to see this site has no idea about the legacy of Vinod khanna, summarized his news with a daily article. At least should come up with detail article of filmography so that the youth of this generation can understand how was the journey of him. This site is no more than a hutiapa of Bollywood news anymore, restricted only for current top3-4 actors. Should changed its name.

  • Super amazing mind blowing jaw dropping spectacular masterpiece… take a bow rajamouli.. hats off to him.!! Watch it to believe this magnum opus…
    u feel like watching a hollywood movie..!!!
    @indicine- i bet u cant even review this classic legend movie…
    if u do also it wont give justice to it..
    Hail rajamouli nd time to celebrate such an epic movie..
    All awards nd accolades reserved this year for rajamouli nd prabhas

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