Back in 2013, when we did a similar article, big films were crossing the 30 crore mark at the box office. But in the last couple of years, on a major holiday, 35 and 40 crore on a single day has now become possible.
Happy New Year and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo are the only two films that have crossed the 40 crore mark on a single day – which also happened to be the biggest day for film business in a year i.e the holiday for Diwali.
Back in the day, Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish was the first film to collect Rs 5 crore on a single day and Ghajini was the first film to go into double digits. 10 crore plus opening has now become ‘normal’ even for films featuring the young stars in the country. But back when Ghajini released, it was earth-shattering.
In 2010, Dabangg came and conquered the box office. For the next couple of years, Salman set the record with his Eid releases – Bodyguard became the first film to cross the 20 crore mark and within a year, Ek Tha Tiger smashed every box office record by becoming the first film to accumulate 30 crore on a single day.
Dhoom 3 did the unthinkable by collecting 35 crore plus on a non-holiday.
Single day milestones:
- 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 (Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone)
In the next few years, it’ll be interesting to see which film will cross the 45 and 50 crore mark on a single day. 50 crore will truly be a massive achievement!
Bollywood God leading them all.
Sultan will cross atleast 40 cr mark on Eid
Salman has 3 movie Amir has 2, Hrithik and Srk 1 so –
1. Salman
2. Amir
3. Hrithik/Srk.
#Sultan have a good chance to open big.
In last couple of eid, Salman’s movie has released on pre eid. But now #Sultan is releasing on eid holiday. Ek tha tiger was also released on eid holiday and opening was record breaking.
PRDP 40+ Cr by Trade and Producers
HNY 36 Cr By Trade and 40+ cr by Producers.
Enough Said..
@ Indicine : Nice article. Amazing really the way you keep coming up with different articles.
Sultan can take a shot at 45 cr.
For 50 cr the only movie I can think of right now is if Amir and Rajkumar Hirani return with sequel of 3I on a Christmas weekend. What a hype that movie will have !!!!!!!!
Nice articel.
@indicine, Don’t mention the same movie twice. Just 30 CR for ETT would mean it owns the 25 CR number too.
40 cr mark record should be with prdp, because every1 knows the difference between hny trade figures(36 cr) and producer figures(45 cr).
I hope bollywood becomes more fair coz this way any producer can manipulate the figures of their movie and showcase it as record breaking! ?
Hny record is fake
first to 45cr is MOHANJO DARO..
Logically, the 40 cr mark record should be with prdp, and not hny because everyone knows the difference between hny producer figures (45 cr) and trade figures(36 cr).
But since indicine follow producer figures so they are bound to show hny’s opening day as 45 cr! I hope bollywood becomes more transparent and fair because its like shoaib malik has scored 10 centuries in his life, but the statisticians manipulate it to 100 centuries and project malik as a bigger cricketer than Tendulkar ?
HNY is the only film to have collected that much despite a poor trailer and below average music .
All other films had great trailers and chartbuster songs .
@indicine: not dhoom 3, but Krrish 3 was the first film to collect 35 crores in a single day!!
I collected 35.9 crores in its forth day! I hope you correct it.
It’s not single day records…. @indicine you are just talking about which film did 5 cr.. 10 cr…. N so.
If single records then…. Include which film beat 5 cr… 10 cr. Etc.
Dabang beat Gajini… A record.
Then… Bodyguard beat Dabang.
Which film beat Bodyguard …??…
Ra.One have single day record ( on 2nd day).
Chennai Express also have single day record.
Then only…. Dhoom 3… Came in.
Om Shanti Om was the first film in history to collect 25 crs in first weekend , and 40 crs in first week .
@IndicineTeam, little correction- Krrish 3 was the 1st film to cross 35 crore figure in a single day, and it did in its 4th day!
Salman Khan dominates all the recent single day records. Only a big movie, with a superstar (top 4), popular music and a major holiday can achieve 50 crore figure in a single day for the 1st time. Although, we may have to wait for another couple of years to see that happen.
CE collected 33.12crs back in 2013..
bajrangi bhaijaan aprx 37-38crs on Eid day…
will be interesting to see how much Sultan collects…
2013-SRK+Deepika
2015-Salman+Karina+excellent content with universal appeal
2016- Salman+Anushka+biggest production of the country+patriotic touch
Sultan should easily cross CE…Anushka is not as big as Deepika but she’s a big actress with 300crs club movie…
so Anushka+YRF can compensate Deepika..
also Sultan will release definitely in wider screens with higher ticket rates compared to see…
will be interesting to see whether it crosses 40crs or not….
Main hi main ab tumhaare khayaalon mein hoon
Main jawaabon mein hoon
Main sawaalon mein hoon collected 33.12crs back in 2013..
bajrangi bhaijaan aprx 37-38crs on Eid day…
will be interesting to see how much Sultan collects…
2013-SRK+Deepika
2015-Salman+Karina+excellent content with universal appeal
2016- Salman+Anushka+biggest production of the country+patriotic touch
Sultan should easily cross CE…Anushka is not as big as Deepika but she’s a big actress with 300crs club movie…
so Anushka+YRF can compensate Deepika..
also Sultan will release definitely in wider screens with higher ticket rates compared to see…
will be interesting to see whether it crosses 40crs or not….
Hny first day is 36 cr boi ! they manipulate their collection Prdp first day 40cr boi is the biggest single day collection
Mark my words
MOHENJO DARO :: 50 Cr on normal day with clash because
HRITHIK = Aamir + Salman + Srk
MOHENJO DARO
Though this is an article on Hindi films only, you could have mentioned Baahubali, the first Indian movie to make 60 cr plus on day 1. (across languages nevertheless)
Remove red chillies, roshans and yrf calculator and then you will have new list
Akshay Kumar and Rajni Sir Robot 2 will cross the 50 crore mark on a single day
SALMAN 4 RECORDS MEANS GOD OF BOLLYWOOD ON 1ST SPOT
AMIR 2 RECORDS 2ND SPOT
SRK ON 3RD
HR ON 4TH
Aamir Khan is the only actor in the last 10 years to give record openers 5 times on box office.
1. Mangal Pandey- Biggest Opener of All time
2. Fanaa- Despite ban in Gujarat, biggest opener of all time beating MP
3. Ghajini- Biggest Opener of All time beating Dhoom 2, first to collect 10 cr+
4. 3 Idiots- Collected 14 crore on Day 1, biggest opener of all time beating Ghajini Day 1.
5. Dhoom 3: Biggest Opener of all time beating Chennai Express.
SRK- 3 – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Chennai Express and Happy New year
Salman-3 Dabangg, Bodyguard and Ek Tha Tiger
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So, Aamir Khan is the king of openings and lifetime collections.
GOD of INDIAN CINEMA Aamir Khan RULES!! Biggest megastar ever!
Bhai is baap of all when it comes to opening…. and then there are some morons who are always chanting about some manipulated record held by their skeleton queen ?!!!!
No one can break 3 back to back single day record of Salman Khan….!
This big achievement…!
first in d last 10 yrs dat a single day record is survived for more than a yr. dats SRK who cms n destroy d records single handedly…i think sultan will nt b able to cross 40 cr
sultan has the potential to cross 45 crore bcoz it is releasing on holiday no other movies has a chance to cross 45 crores bcoz md and dangal releasing on non holiday