Releasing Happy New Year on Friday was a masterstroke by Shahrukh Khan and his team, as opening day records give films tremendous publicity across print, television and social media. For first day records, getting the timing of the release right is important. If the opening day is not a holiday, it is almost impossible to break the previous records.
Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish in 2006 was the first film to collect Rs 5 crore on a single day. Two years later, Aamir Khan’s Ghajini collected more than 10 crores to become the first film in history to net 10 crore in one day, something that was unheard of back then.
A year later, Dabangg came and conquered the box office. Between 2010 and 2012 it was all about Salman Khan. Bodyguard shattered box office records with 20.6 crore on its opening day, a year later Ek Tha Tiger became the first film to do 30 crores of business.
Then came Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3, a film that broke every record on a working day. And now, about 10 months later, SRK’s Happy New Year has become the first film to cross 40 crore. In fact, Happy New Year just fell a few lakhs short of the 45 crore mark, something that it could achieve on Sunday.
Films that were the first to the below ‘Single Day’ milestones: (List below the image)
- 5 crore - Krrish (Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra)
- 10 crore - Ghajini (Aamir Khan, Asin)
- 15 crores - Dabangg (Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha)
- 20 crores - Bodyguard (Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor)
- 25 crores - Ek Tha Tiger (Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif)
- 30 crores - Ek Tha Tiger (Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif)
- 35 crores - Krrish 3 (Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra)
- 40 crores – Happy New Year (Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone)
My father works in L&T and mother in BSNL…Both went to office yesterday.
After 3 days 124+cr sure for happy new year wow…..
@Fan pk, When a SRK movie releases, it’s no less than a holiday!
And also 44.97 crs and 45 crs has only a 3 lakh difference….so we can call it 45 crs.
@Kingshuk Bhattacharjee, scoring 99 doesn’t make it a century. A film has to do 45 or more.
Also my cousins office remained open from 1.30 PM – 10.30 PM
For clarification….I live in West Bengal.
Why did you edit my article to such an extent? I was helping the users of Indicine by providing the truth of the movie! I have now understood what you want!
@Anand, you have posted your review in quite a few articles. Don’t spam.
Legend Khan MultiStarrer king Kong?
I think you are talking about Amir khan 3 idiots Dhoom 3, Rang de basanti, Dil chahta hai
Ohhh yeah You are talking about amir Khan only
Diwali holiday makes the difference still
HNY fird day is not 48 cr. Salman achieved it 2
years ago with ETT what Srk did now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow!!!!jst proud to watch this film with frnds 1stday on 89!!!durgapur
thanx indicine for response :) I just want to say I m from north Lucknow and my relative work in different different department for example railway nr and Ner both open, its a govt organization also my relative work in western railway west Bengal which is also open I can give you lots of example . not only south every govt organisation open for kind of Ur information there are two types of hollyday ya not hollyday movie I m talking about 1 gazetted hollyday and non gazzeted hollyday and 24 is not in both list non gazzeted hollyday consider as a semi hollyday so 24 consider as non hollyday bcoz how can we judge a particular day as hollyday without official declaration??? just on the base of a huge collection its wrong in future if anybody asked u in what sense u consider 24 Oct as a hollyday than ans will be bcoz it was HNY day.. ;) plzzz correct it
@Noam : Dont fly too much coz this is a temporary relief for you guys. Asli picture (PK) abhi baakhi hai. Wait for less than 2 months !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@L..d Khan yes multi starer king kong Tingu A.S.S Amit Khan. 3Idiots Multi Starer, Dhoom-3 Multi Starer. What u want more. Lolz Too Much Fun
Wer is chennai express. …..
Chennai express collected 35crore in its opening day
oh no srk hny collect 45 crore but our bhaijan film did not collect 33 crores in a single day… its a very shame full for us….we hope our bhaijan next film opening day collect more then 90 crore…because we love our bhaijan…..every animal love our bhaijan
Now Srk fans wants this to be declared as non holiday record so that their king remains on top for long time coz they know that PK releasing on non holiday (19 December) will smash HNY opening record !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lolzz
First 25 cr was Agneepath(2012 jan) not Ek tha tiger(2012 eid)..
@indicine pls correct it..
Yeah, even i am also a central government employee and had no holiday for me yesterday.. But for king khan i used my cl..
@anand “duplicate”. Then what is Indicine to do when it knows that max comments are posted on SRK article. Even before we reach u with Ur “duplicate” comments are always here.
And to add it they also know that in every other article even if SRK is nt involved people like u, Dinda11, fake tiger and doggy would include SRK into the article. So its always better to post an original article with original comments u see. Lolz.
Keep spreading “duplicate negativity”.
Salman vil score the first half century
I meant suppose to do
indicine why can’t u reply to my post a bout “sing is king” please kindly reply coz I love your site mor any site.
@rockow, extremely busy today to respond to comments. And why not use some common sense? Krrish released in 2006, Singh Is King in 2008. This list is not about first to 7 or 8 cr, but about 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 cr.
Lots of people quoting various figures. The list above is accurate.
Tiger@ if that was due to deepika, what happened to finding fanny? Why its lifetime collection was less than hny single day collection? Those who say the success of hny belongs to Ab junior show me at least one his solo starrer that crossed 100 crore.
not this time dears ..yesterdays collection are fudged big time …the film is going slow tickets are available freely..there is no frenzy
Still zero chance of HNY crossing 200 crore, it will crash badly from Monday onwards. WOM is worse. Monday- 10 crore
Lifetime-180-190 crore
Srk power..although dere r many young n handsome actors..but frm my childhood srk is fav..luv u srk..
not a big deal. 5000 screens, hiked prices and big holiday and only 45 crores. dhhoom 3 is still a winner, because it released in less screens and on working dday. wait for PK it will shatter all these crapr records. and BTW this is just opening. lifetime will fail to beat dhoom 3. PK will be the higheest grosser of this year.
srk is a big 0 without topt heroines, big production houses, and diwali festival. he is the most insecured and DARPOK khan. this is his 11th diwali release in his career. he hass no versatility like aamir nor does he have a style and personality like salman. same roles again and again. let him release an experimental movie like talaash on non holiday, i will see his so called star power. anyways just opening record is broken doesn’t mean he will be able to brake life time records of dhoom 3. it’s impossible. reviews are negative, so its impossible. PK will shatter all these records. PK will be highest grosser of this year. tomorrow and so on HNY will drop badly. srk should retire now.
bullshit movie. this farah bitch has no sence of direction. she needs to be kicked out of bollywood badly. i will never watch this shit movie. HNY will be big flop as it will drop from tomorrow.
why Indicine isn’t Updating Ra.one’s 25 crore collection?SRK was 1st to reach 25 crore landmark on 27 oct,2011.Pls correct ur faults!