Can Happy New Year beat Kick at the box office?

Question: Can Shahrukh Khan’s Happy New Year beat Salman Khan’s Kick at the box office?

Answer: This has to be the most asked question in the last couple of the weeks – our inbox has literally been flooded with the same question. Prior to release, Happy New Year seemed like it had more than a decent chance of crossing the 233-crore business of Kick.

But with the film dropping Monday onwards, it won’t be easy. In fact, Kick could already be out of reach. In 5 days, Happy New Year has collected around 137 crore. In the same number of days, Kick had collected 10 crore less (127 cr). But on the following two days, Kick collected Rs 21.66 cr (Wednesday) and Rs 15.4 cr (Thursday) due to Eid, taking its first week total to Rs 164.21 cr. Happy New Year is likely to fall short of the first week total of Kick by around 4 crore.

The Salman Khan starrer showed fantastic growth in business in its second weekend too – 9.22 cr, 10.62 cr and 14.16 cr. Happy New Year has to better that to have any chance of going past Kick, which looks unlikely at this stage due to drops from Monday.

Interestingly, for a film that was expected to be the 3rd biggest grosser of the year after HNY and PK, Kick could well remain the highest grosser of the year by the end of 2014 if PK doesn’t live upto its sky-high expectations.

Also read: Highest Grossers of the year: 2000 – 2013 Analysis

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153 Comments

  • Content is the real king, not salman not Shahrukh and not even Amir, 3 Idiots, kick and D3 have good contents thats why these films are on top whether HNY is same revenge story which people have watched number of times but yet it is entertaining but only one time watch which lacks repeats value.

  • Kick was a good entertainer if you ignore the loopholes. But, HNY is never a good entertainmer even you leave sense and logic. Contentwise,HNY is poor and entertainmentwise it’s average

  • its impossible to beat kick now as salman will remain the biggest superstar no one can match his 5back to back blockbuster record.

  • thats the power of our bhaijaan…..many sites are desperately trying to show HPY is ging to beat kick & dhoom3 but the truth is its already loose the battle.. it should end the box office run around 190 to 200.. i have an humble request to srk, we love u not becoz of chennai experss or om shant om we love you becoz of swadesh, kal ho na ho & chak de india kind of movies so plz come back .. we dont want to see u in this kind of movies..

  • my prediction for first week is 157 crore of hny. it cant beat kick. plz give only hindi version collection of hny also cuz kick is only hindi release.

  • Continuously day by day drop shows that HNY will be remembered only for its opening day & weekend. Nothing more.
    2 DIN KA KING..

  • Krrish 3 trended better compared to kick and HNY.
    Krrish 3 did 244 crores with 25.5 crores opening.
    Kick did 232 crores with 27 crores opening.

  • Our focus is now on 200 crores 1st coz we dont want to dream big and then get dissapointed coz we were dreaming of 300 crores and dhoom 3 lifetime after 1st day but our dream got broken

  • Only if Roar and Super Nani doesn’t work.Also depends on how many screen left for HNY.
    As Fury also getting released in India.

  • No… It cant… Farah Khan le doobi SRK ko…
    how do Farah Khan, Sajid Khan, Sirish Kunder get to make movies even after repeated disasters….

  • In sha Allah it will gross 200 crs nett domestically
    even I am skeptical whether it wil cross kick or not
    lets see time wil tell.. but I want it cross kick anyhow n be the biggest grosser of 2014 if pk doesnt live upto the xpectations ( wid raju hirani donning the hat its quite unlikely)

  • The number of screens only matter in the 1st weekend for a Big Film, after that its the footfall that matters, which is decided by content/WOM.

  • SRK has gone to 3rd place again after failure of #HNY Top10- Aamir, Salman, SRK, Hrithik, Ajay, Ranveer, Sidhart, Varun, Akshay, Tiger..KRK

  • No chance!!!! Hny wouldn’t cross 200cr but lal mirchi very smart coz lal mirchi already bought calculatar from ManipulationarPur.p

  • Don’t know who was expecting Kick as 3rd biggest grosser of the year after PK and HNY but i was always expecting either PK or Kick to be the biggest grosser of 2014 from many months before and i m sure it will happen like it is happening from last 6 years that only aamir or salman movie is becoming biggest grosser of the year.

  • Salfans and SRK haters during BODYGUARD — RIP 3IDIOTS.

    During TAALASH — Pls RIP 3IDIOTS

    During ETT — Rest in hell 3IDIOTS

    During D2 — Right now RIP 3IDIOTS

    During KICK — 300 crs…1st day 40 crs….RIP 3IDIOTS….

    Now its turn for BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN and others….lol

  • During KICKs trailer — 300 crs

    After 1st day — 275 crs.

    After 1st weekend — 250 crs

    After 1st week — Will cross CE…..lol

  • salman khan you rock man.. respect.. no top heroine, debutant director, debutant script n screenplay writer, pre eid release, low promotions n still such fantastic collections.. salman khan bas naam hi kaafi hai.. one man army.. on the other hand maker of blockbusters like main hoon na n oso, queen of bollywood deepika, big supporting cast, 10 months promotions, 8 packs gimmick, holiday release, highest no. of screens, no competition.. kick had competition after first week onwards with its entertainment which did decent business
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  • its too early to write off hny.
    i think it will collect more than kick to emerge as the biggest grosser of the year.
    the movie has not crashed as many are saying on the weekdays and showing a good steady hold.
    collections on wednesady-thursday will be in the range of 11-13 crore to take its total near to 160 crore.
    by the second weekend it will be close to 200 crore.
    it should cross kick lifetime.
    it will cross.

  • Difference between producers fig and trade fig – 136 crs – 120 + 4 crs = 12 crs.

    HRIANS….your HR is way ahead in manipulation department….now no one can match him….lol

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