Chennai Express Box Office Prediction

The trailer of Chennai Express is out and the film looks like a complete family entertainer with action, comedy, romance and good music. With Balaji postponing the release of their upcoming film Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara, Shahrukh Khan is set to take centre-stage during the extended Eid weekend starting 8th August.

The festive weekend has been record-breaking, credit for which goes entirely to Salman Khan. It all started with Dabangg in 2010 breaking the previous record of 3 Idiots. A year later, Bodyguard took a earth shattering opening, collecting Rs 21 crore on it’s opening day. Last year, Salman successfully completed a Eid hattrick with Yashraj Films’ Ek Tha Tiger  breaking all previous records with highest single day collections of Rs 32.92 crore. The film eventually went on to collect Rs 100 crores in 5 days!

Chennai Express Box Office

The year-on-year growth in business is staggering:

  • 1. Dabangg (2010) – 14.5 crore
  • 2. Bodyguard (2011) – 21 crore (44% growth)
  • 3. Ek Tha Tiger (2012) – 32.92 crore (57% growth)

If the trend continues, Chennai Express might come close or even better the opening day collections of ETT, as 8th August marks the end of Ramadan and 9th August is a national holiday for Eid-ul-fitr. Business is likely to pick up after the holiday, on Saturday and Sunday, as the muslim section of the audience come out in numbers to watch the film, as was the case with Ek Tha Tiger last year.

We asked a few distributors, exhibitors and box office enthusiasts who follow the trade closely – to predict the opening day, opening weekend (4 days) and opening week collections of Chennai Express. Finally, we averaged the numbers out.

  • 8th August, Thursday – 25 crore (opening day)
  • 9th August, Friday – 29 crores (national holiday)
  • 10th August, Saturday – 18 crores
  • 11th August, Sunday – 26 crores (Holiday)
  • Extended 4 day Weekend – 98 crores
  • First Week (7 days) – 132 crores

Note: Chennai Express is likely to release on 3400+ screens across the country.

What are your box office predictions for Chennai Express? Post in the comments section below.

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117 Comments

  • I think will be more than 150…why not 200 cr ? come one only Salman Khan do that,his movies are not so special….GO SRK !

  • I guess this movie will cross 250crore it has very +ve effece on me srk’s travelling movies are very good & romantic

  • This movie will break the records of 3idiots. Because the power of srk ofcourse and also this time it will collect great collections from south india than any other hindi movie coz of its title n the cultures shown.

    Truly SRK is the only king of bollywood

  • Srk is the biggest superstar of bollywood chennai express box office collection will be 300crore

  • Chennai express is totally different type of movie which SRK never done before.
    it will touch the 200 crs (wildwide)…
    and once upon a time mumbai again seems over confident.
    i really not sure what will be. because SRK already over. thats why akkay claim “the khiladi has back as king” now everybody wants to hit SRK and praise SALMAN.
    but everybody shouldn’t compare SRK with any other hero of bollywood. everybody should recall SRK’s all career. he didn’t have any family background like salman, ameer, ranbir, akkhay etc.
    i dont why people start hating shah ruk khan. actually people only judge current performance…

  • It will definitly cross 100 crore and hope is there that it can cross the new box-office collections target that is 200 crore. it may or may not but hope is there and hope never dies.

  • it will release on 9th august so the opening day’s collection would be 32-35 crores then,
    First day : 35 Cr
    2nd day : 25 Cr
    3rd day : 28 Cr
    4th day : 20 Cr
    5th Day :15 Cr
    6th Dat : 14 Cr
    7th Day : 10 Cr
    Total : 134
    Lifetime : 190+

  • Chennai Express will be huge like never before seen in bollywood. I am never wrong Mark my words following will be the collection of chennai express.

    First Weekend : 92 cr
    First Week : 169 cr
    Second Weekend : 59 cr
    Second Week : 103 cr
    Third Weekend : 44 cr
    Third Week : 82 cr
    Fourth Week : 60 cr
    Fifth Week : 45 cr
    Sixth Week : 38 cr
    Seventh Week : 30 cr
    Eighth Week : 18 cr
    Ninth Week : 14 cr
    Tenth Week : 10 cr
    Eleventh Week : 8 cr
    Twelve Week : 7 cr
    Thirteen week : 11 cr (Festival Season)
    Fourteen Week : 18 cr
    Fifteenth Week : 12 cr
    Sixteen Week : 8 cr
    Seventeenth Week : 6 cr
    18th Week : 5 cr
    19th Week : 4 cr
    20th week : 2 cr
    21 week : 1.5.cr
    22nd week : 2.5 cr
    23 Week : 2 cr
    24th week : 1 cr
    25th Week : 5 cr (Silver Jubilee )
    26th Week : 3 cr
    27th Week : 2 cr
    28 Week : 1 cr
    Remaining Weeks : 3 cr.

    Lifetime would be around 665-670 cr

  • First week : 206 cr
    Second week : 190 cr
    Third week : 180 cr
    Fourth week : 210 cr
    Fifth week : 250 cr
    Sixth Week : 400 cr
    Seventh week : 1000 cr

  • It will a humangus hit of the year,coz its release date will 9th augst,so 1st day collection wil be 32-35 may be more.2nd day-22 cr+,3rd day-28 cr+ coz it is sunday,4th day-20 cr+.so in 4 days it will around 102-105 cr in domestic market.next two days its clctn will slowly drop nd will stand 16 cr+ nd 14 cr+ respectively,nd 7th days clctn wil 9 cr+ coz outima release date.so its 1st week collection will be around 141-144 cr+,lifetime-141-144+32+19+10+7+6+3=218-222 cr+.its overseas clctn will stand 70-85 cr

  • Box Officce Collection of first Week of KING KHAN Chennai Express after seing promo and songs and promotion all are looking awesome. KING KHAN looking so handsome.It Will Break all the reccords.Acording my preditction minimum coleection of First week

    First Day -48 Cr
    Second Day -49 Cr
    Third Day -50 Cr
    Fourth Day -35 Cr
    Fifth Day -34 Cr
    Sixth day -30 Cr
    Seventh Day 35 Cr

    First Week Collection is 281 Cr Aprrox.

  • My prediction
    9 august-22 crore
    10 august-28crore
    11 august-20crore
    donot worry srk u will cross 130 crore in 1st weekend

  • My predictions are
    8th August, Thursday 18 crores
    9th August, Friday – 15 crores (national holiday)
    10th August, Saturday – 15 crores
    11th August, Sunday – 18 crores (Holiday)
    Extended 4 day Weekend – 66 crores
    First Week (7 days) – 90 crores
    Lifetime total : 108 crores

  • My predictions are
    8th August, Thursday 18 crores
    9th August, Friday – 21 crores (national holiday)
    10th August, Saturday – 18 crores
    11th August, Sunday – 21 crores (Holiday)
    Extended 4 day Weekend – 78 crores
    First Week (7 days) – 110 crores
    2nd weened :
    friday – 5 crores
    Sat – 5 crores
    Sunday – 7 crores
    2nd week – 27 crores
    Lifetime total : 154 crores

  • since the release date is shifted to 9th august (holiday), here’s the revised prediction

    august 9, friday- 34 crore (holiday)
    august 10, saturday- 20 crore
    august 11, sunday- 27 crore (holiday)

    3 DAYS WEEKEND- 81 crore

    1st WEEK- 130-140 cr

    Lifetime-
    200+ (if good content and positive word of mouth)
    around 180 (if average content and OUTIMA factor shines)
    around 160 (worst case scenario)

    dont see as a fan perspective, be genuine and accurate on “reality” …and for me, this is the reality!

  • What’s the prediction yar @sachin.you gave a prediction before 5 mints which was wholly different after 5 minutes that you gave another prediction.i slightly agree at ur second prediction,as the buzz of ce is growing day by day its collection will more.below i give my prediction
    1st day(preview show)-4-5 cr
    2nd day(national holiday)-35 cr+
    3rd day-27 cr
    4th day-33 cr+
    extended 4 days weekend total collection will around 100 cr.
    1st week-145 cr+
    life time-190+cr

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