MS Dhoni Collections in 2 days: Hits two sixers!

On the cricket field, MS Dhoni begins cautiously and then gets into attacking mode, but at the box office, the popularity of the star-cricketer has helped his biopic – ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ – to the second spot, ahead of films featuring superstars like Shah Rukh Khan (FAN), Akshay Kumar (Housefull 3, Rustom, Airlift) and Hrithik Roshan (Mohenjo Daro).

The Neeraj Pandey film has not only opened well at the box office on Friday, but sustained well on Saturday too. The two-day collections of the film stands at Rs 41.9 crore.

In fact, keeping a film of a certain megastar aside, ’MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ is the only other film to cross the 35 crore in its first two days and also the only film to collect more than 20 crore on each of its first two days!

While ‘Sultan’ benefitted from two partial holidays for Eid, FAN too had the advantage of a half-holiday for Ram Navami on its opening day. ’MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ did not have a single holiday, yet has managed to beat some of the bigger films this year.

It raises an important question – do stars really need favourable / holiday weekends, even at the cost of a major box office clash? Can Raees or Kaabil achieve the kind of numbers that Dhoni has, if they clash? If a film, featuring a big star, is made to appeal to a wider section of the audience and has good content – it can easily average 20 – 25 crore over a normal non-holiday weekend.

Check out the two-day collections of films that have managed to cross the 30 crore mark this year:

  • Sultan - 73.86 crore
  • MS Dhoni – 41.9 crore
  • FAN – 34.6 crore
  • Housefull 3 - 31.51 crore
  • Rustom – 30.54 crore

 

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173 Comments

  • Outstanding collections considering Non- Holiday & a cricket match is going on as well.
    Brand Dhoni has a huge popularity in India.
    Weekend should be of 65 crs.
    Lifetime – 150 crs, higher than All Akki movies.
    Movie gave me goosebumps especially in the CLIMAX.
    What a moment when India Lifted the World Cup, will never forget that night 2nd April 2011.

  • Anyways, lets appreciate indicine . They predicted 20.1( FBO )and difference is not big.Without any shadow of doubt, the best site of Bollywood. Keep goibg guys.
    And aboyt Biopic, one of d well made biopic in recent times. Will cross 120 easily

  • It’s a good film… Bit too long…..
    It hurts when I see Sri Lanka lost in 2011 final….. But it’s okay coz SL beat IND IN 2014 T20 WC Final

  • Audience are loving Dhoni. It would have Done 250 plus business on Diwali/Christmas.

    Neeraj pandey turning out 2 be the most successful & Best director of Bollywood…!

  • Stardom of dhoni has managed this but lets talk about movie in general

    Honestly its not a mind blowing, special sort of a movie , neeraj pandey has failed to match his previous work

    The movie fails to even layout a proper charactersketch of m.s dhoni , nothing not even his cool nature is properly ahown .

    Though somethings like helicopter shot are highlights but why ms dhoni works is because of sushant singh Rajput
    He is phenomenal, his body language , speaking manner looks perfect

    Now why dhoni will score big at b.o is because of last 10 minutes , basically neeraj shows you highlight of 2011 wc final and we all huge cricket fans forget we are watching movie and not re living the day when our cricket team achieved this huge
    Glory , thus in the end you are stasfied and your instant reaction is positive which further becomes wom

    But the ground reality is movie fails to capture huge euphoria around dhoni

  • Yesterday watched MSD on my laptop… It’s a good film …. First 1˝ hour is awesome …
    But it should be 2˝ hour film. Bit too long……
    Sushant is amazing…….

  • akki ajay yet to cross 150cr mark that Khans Hrithik Mowgli Kangana Ranveer Ranbir & now Sushanth will b crossing. .lol.

  • /* In fact, keeping a film of a certain megastar aside, ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ is the only other film to cross the 35 crore in its first two days and also the only film to collect more than 20 crore on each of its first two days */

    Competing with Megastar Salman Khan is not everyone’s cup of tea..

  • /* ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ – to the second spot, ahead of films featuring superstars like Shah Rukh Khan (FAN), Akshay Kumar (Housefull 3, Rustom, Airlift) and Hrithik Roshan (Mohenjo Daro). */

    RIP Galaxy gigastar, jokerboy & Jaadooboy!!!

  • @Indicine,So u r taking taking away the credit of EDX in this article?My question 2 u is “If Sultan released on any other date other than EDX,would it collect 300 cr?If Airlift released on EDX would it settle down only for 128 cr?I want to ask u that without EDX & few open weeks can a film do 300 cr?Answer?
    lol

  • Sushant singh rajput and akshya Kumar with neeraj panday .

    Sushant singh rajput with neeraj panday
    M.s dhoni: the untold story
    1st day- 21 cr

    Akshya Kumar with neeraj panday
    Special 26
    1st day – 5 cr.

    Baby
    1st day- 9 cr

    Akshya Kumar star power= ??????????????

    Sushant singh rajput’s star power is 100 times >>>>>>>> akshya kumar’s star power.

  • Hand’s up if you are waiting for those Jokers who will start claiming that Sushant is s bigger star than Shahrukh and Akki.

  • Akshay kumar has been in the industry more than 26 years and his highest opening day is Singh is Bring which collected 17.5 cr (Bo), on the other hand, a three movie old actor delivered a 20+ cr opening day ??? hence it’s proved again today that Akshay is a tiny actor and has not stardom and and he is in same league as Tushar,Uday chopra,Arbaaz Khan ?

  • MS Dhoni Untold Story is the sixth highest non-Holiday opener and very strange that self proclaimed non-Holiday king Akshay Kumar never crossed 20 cr.?
    #Fact

  • With content Kangana has a Blockbuster,Naseeruddin delivered a Super Hit,Shushant will give a huge hit and small star Akshay content ke sath bhi ‘Hit’ pe atka Hai ??

  • /* It raises an important question – do stars really need favourable / holiday weekend */

    Maybe stars need but not Megastars. Eg- Sultan collected around 32cr on 3rd day & 37cr on 4th day. Both the days (Friday & Saturday) were completely working days.

  • This movie is nothing in front of Sultan. Aamir naata is Raju Papa boy and SRGay is hakla !
    #True Salman Fans

  • Watched Dhoni. For my understanding, where is the untold story?
    I mean we all are aware of dhoni’s past. The film shows the same. 2011 world cup is on youtube and to be frank the winning moment in the movie does not boost our nerves as we got from chak de india because we all knew the result of 2011 world cup.. and also the film didnt said the effort of yuvraj and gambhir who were the major factors of our win…
    Untold story means the issue with seniors, problem with gambhir, yuvraj, sehwag, harbhajan…
    According to me, the film name should be MS dhoni…. “untold story” should be removed

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