‘Dangal’ creates history for India in China, gets widest ever release in any country

After the blockbuster success of ‘PK’, India’s ‘global superstar’ Aamir Khan is all set to take the Chinese Box Office by storm. Disney India has confirmed that ‘Dangal’, which releases in theatres today, will be getting a record 9000-screen release in the neighbouring country – which is the highest ever screen-count for an Indian film in any country, including India.

The China release size is almost as much as the number of screens that exist in India.

“‘Dangal’ will release in China in 9,000 screens, which is the widest ever release for an Indian film in any territory” Amrita Pandey, Vice President, Studios, Disney India, said.

“We are very excited to release ‘Dangal’ in China. The film is very special and with a story which has the potential to travel the world and transcend geographies,” Pandey added.

The Top 3 Indian grossers in China are PK (which was the first film to cross the 100 crore mark), followed by Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots.

China has nearly 40,000 screens and ‘Dangal’, which is releasing as ‘Shuai Jiao Baba’ (meaning ‘Let’s Wrestle, Dad’) will be playing on a record 9000 screens.

Even as ‘Bahubali 2’ enjoys a record-breaking run in the domestic and international markets, all eyes could now shift to Dangal’s performance in China if it manages to break box office records there.

If Dangal performs as per the ‘high expectations’ from the trade, it could break the overseas collection record of all previous Hindi films just from its business in China.

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36 Comments

  • Rajmouli and his effort ruled again this year.
    Dangal didn’t deserve. It was crappest movie of 2016.
    Tubelight Teaser was speechless.

  • Whatever the screen count may be..

    The fact is dangal got overshadowed by bahubali2..

    Hard fact to digest

  • Dangal was a fantastic film hope it does well but no matter how much u promote dangal or tubelight.. it’s all about bahubali which is causing havoc where is the box office collections of Wednesday? So much hypocrisy from indicine

  • Indicine desperately trying hard to save dangal
    What was so special in dangal
    A normal inspiration story
    Look chak de India, a much better inspiration than dangal
    Media made stars
    Whatever the screen count Chinese has better movies to watch

  • @NEW ERA SRK
    Jealousy!!!!! . SRK had 2 mighty disasters in China-Crappy New year and Fan
    Dangal will cross combined both before the first show begins

    I am expecting widest release for Tubelight.

  • Now lets see if it collect the 153 cr from 9000 screen first day or not , BB2 collected 123cr from 6500 screen on first day. lets see.

  • #Baahubali2 1st Week WW BO (Estimates): #India : Nett – ? 545 Crs Gross – ? 695 Crs Overseas : Gross – ? 165 Crs Total – ? 860 Crs …

  • well Bahubali deserves all the attention……700 crore net in india and 100 crore worldwide has no explanation

    Dangal , im sure it’d do very well in China……should cross 900 crore worldwide

  • There is only one way to break bahubali record ,and that is to explore and expand Bollywood business to different country ,and that’s amir khan is doing and he will surrely do that at any cost

  • Yes Aamir has earned such a wide release after yrs of delivering good cinema….!

    Proud of you Sir

  • To get almost 20% of the screen allocation in a big foreign nation is simply huggggeeee…

    Expecting PKs China business to be easily eclipsed for sure

  • The best Indian film since PK-Dangal

    Its story n narration style will work in any market so no doubt China will love Dangal equally as much as Indians worldwide did.

  • @12:19pm

    Well tbf its through building all those 0000s of theatres in its early yrs as a communist regime that the communist regime was able to churn out endless pro COMMUNISM propaganda to placate the natives. Smart strategy paid off

  • Ds is Bigg…
    Also TUBELIGHT is set to release Dr as well …along wd Indian release ….hope both perform well Dr …And perhaps Kabir and skf can den push BB for release Dr.

  • Wanda cinemas are boycotting Dangal(since its released by Huayi), otherwise it would do much better.Still has 30k shows. Today is tracking 14mil yuan(5.5 mil for Pk on first day) and first weekend is 60-70 million yuan and lt will make atleast 200 million yuan/30 million dollar( my prediction is 36 million dollar) as Cinemascore is 9.5 there.

  • excellent!!! good way of penetrating a strong market rather than depending on USA and UK, Bollywood should be free to open anywhere. they should also explore other asian countries and South America and Africa after all Bollywood will become bigger than hollywood if well marketed.

  • 1.ATP in china for Dangal-4.5$,Assuming 3m$,Day1 FF cld be 6.66 Lacs. 2.ATP for BB2 in NA -16$(min),Weekend Collns-10.138M$,FF-6.33 Lacs.
    Dangal china day 1 FootFalls cld be> than BB2 NA whole weekend FootFalls.
    This is called real crushing.

  • @indice- tujhse na ho paayega..
    Ur tryng hard to save bollywood from south film industry bcz of bahubali tsunami..
    Nobdy gonna shift der focus frm bahubali no matr hw hard u try

    Frm die hard bollywood fan?

  • bahubali 2 has become highest wordwide grosser of indian cinema, still no article,kab tak hindi ka excuse doge, is not this an indian site, isnt bahubali indian movie? let me remind your sites full name, its indian cinema, agar bahubali se itni jalan hai to indicine se change kar apna naam hindicine rakh lo

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