2015 has been good year for Akshay Kumar. ‘Baby’ was the first big release of the year and even though the film did not open well at the box office, it was Akshay’s most critically acclaimed film in a long time. The film sustained well and went on to do business of Rs 96 crore.
The superstar returned in May with ‘Gabbar Is Back’. The remake catered to Akshay’s fan-following at mass-centres, where the film did well.
So the big question with ‘Brothers’ is if the film, which is targeted both at single-screen and multiplex audience, will take a good opening.
The trailer received a good response, the song and dialogue promos has managed to raise the curiosity among audiences with its
storyline, emotional connect and realistic action sequences. Apart from action, Brothers also shows the relationship between two brothers, father-son and husband-wife. In short, the film has something for everyone.
Brothers will be releasing on 3500 plus screens all over country and the big question on Day 1 will be if Akshay Kumar, combined with Sidharth Malhotra’s fan-following amongst the fairer sex, can break his own records with the film.
All records currently belong to his film ‘Rowdy Rathore’ which released in 2012.
1. Highest Opening Day: Only 6 stars – Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor and Ajay Devgn – have managed to give their films a opening of 20 crore or more on Day 1. When it comes to opening day numbers, the last Akshay film that took a good start was ‘Rowdy Rathore’. Since then, the opening of all his films have been below par. While ‘Brothers’ should beat the 3 year old record of ‘Rowdy Rathore’ (15.1 cr), it remains to be seen if the film can open at 20 crore plus.
2. Highest Opening Weekend: No Akshay Kumar film has managed to collect Rs 50 crore in its opening weekend and Brothers, because of two holidays on Saturday and Sunday, has every chance of beating the record of ‘Rowdy Rathore’ (48.3 crore) by a big margin. The same applies for films starring Sidharth Malhotra in the lead – his best is Rs 49.7 crore of Ek Villain.
3. Highest First Week: Another record that’s likely to be surpassed is the for the highest first week business. The record again belongs to Akshay’s Rowdy Rathore (79.52 crore). If Brothers is well-received, then the film could cross the 80 crore mark in 5-6 days!
4. Highest grossing film in India: Akshay’s highest grosser so far is Rowdy Rathore which collected Rs 134 crore back in 2012. Sidharth’s last film ‘Ek Villain’ collected Rs 104 crore and Jacqueline Fernandes is way ahead with ‘KICK’ collecting Rs 233 crore during Eid last year. Realistic targets will be crossing the business of Rowdy Rathore and collecting 150 crore plus.
5. Highest grossing film overseas: Akshay’s highest grossing film overseas is the 7-year-old film ‘Singh Is King’, which collected a little more than $7 million. Both ‘Baby’ and ‘Gabbar Is Back’ have performed poorly in the overseas markets, so it’ll be interesting to see if ‘Brothers’ takes a good opening. The Dharma factor should help the film.
6. Highest grossing film worldwide: The record currently belongs to Rowdy Rathore (Rs 201 crore gross), Akshay’s only film to cross the 200 crore mark worldwide.
70%Brothers will not Cross 100 crore because flop kumar cannot attract audiences only can do 60crore or 70 crore
@mohit I mean your shitty mouth…..
If you are saying that we Akshay fans are dreaming of 20cr+ opening for the past 3 years then you should also know that jabroni’s like u were also saying that Akshay Kumar cannot give 100 crore grosser back in 2011-2012……. but we all what happened after that…
House full 2 – 116cr
Rowdy Rathore – 134cr
These two movies had a combined collection of 250 crores in India itself within 2 months and this was a big thing at that time to give 100 crore grosser even you cannot deny …… so better not question Akshay Kumar’s box office power……. now waiting for the same thing to happen back to back 200 crore grossers which will start from brothers……. (thank you)
There is a storm coming…
#Brothers
#14Aug2015
Better remember this you stupid..
@A Khan ha ha ha ha ha. Khujli lagi???? I didnt even comment yet and still you got scared of me. That proves how much nightmares you are getting because of me.
Bhojpori Bastards also targets the bastards so they may come out in huge numbers too….!
The likes of kSHITij will watch this film now
brothers opening day collection more than 20cr
@3:25pm
If joker boy does Dhoom 4 then the audiences for the first time in the franchise would be rooting for Uday Ugly Chopra to actually kill the Joker villain….!
@buddha thullu
Old man barking again about holidays n non holiday releases but you know perfectly well exhibitors dont trust your joker boy with a holiday release just like parents dont trust you with safety arrangements at their childrens party…!
Salman, Aamir and SRK are expected to break each other’s or highest (of all time) records but Akki is being expected to break his own records !!!!!!!!!!!! Sid + Jacqueline + MMA will be the ultimate saviors for Brothers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Javed :Where were you from so many days ?? Absconding after BB’s success ?? Mazaa aa gaaya… !!! Tum Salman haters ne kya socha aur kya hogaya !!!!!!!!!!! Lol
@Babaji and @ullu (Akki) ka fan : First ask your Akki to improve his standards… Once upon a time he gave Rowdy Rathore and Houseful now crawling from 60 crs to 90 crs and now Sid + MMA will help him give HGO his career. Akshay is yet to give a HGOTY whereas Salman has 9 (including this year) HGOTY, also check how many were released on non holiday. Akki Holiday release par GIB and TMK and Salman holiday release ETT, Kick and BB !!!!!!!!!! Feel the difference and feel the shame if you have any !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For loons like @Tiger the chuha n @hrithik(parody cheap) GIB was a holiday release!!
May God give them sanity
this is the best chance akshay has got.. big banner, holiday release, youth star sid to support him, trailer got good response, good director n also the genre he is best in dat is martial arts.. if he cant deliver now, he will never.. pesonally i feel it should be akshay’s biggest grosser.. though as audience m not interested in it at all.. if it doesn’t turn out akshay’s biggest grosser it will be a shame on him..
@hrithik you can’t say that Gabbar is back was a holiday release because the holiday was only for Maharashtra and Gujarat.,… although it was a partial holiday and I agree with you that Gabbar is back should have collected more but the real collections for every Bollywood movies comes from Uttar Pradesh , Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan , and many North Indian states where Bollywood movies perform well……… in these States there was no off day which also Limited the collection of Gabbar is back……….. considering the negativity around the masala genre for quite some time now the movie performed really well by collecting 87-89 crores at the box office and also the movie faced severe competition from likes of piku , Bombay velvet , tanu weds manu (in domestic market which considerably reduced its screen space)
For overseas it faced competition from Avengers-age of Ultron which was one of the most awaited movies 2015 for Hollywood fans even if any other movie would have also release on the same day with age of Ultron i.e on may 1 whether it was Shahrukh Khan film or Aamir Khan’s or Salman Khan then it would have also met with same fate which gib faced (also note my friend that avengers 2 worldwide release was on may 1 , in India and some other countries it released few days before)………
In Maharashtra it faced tough competition from Timepass 2 which ate 7-8cr of it’s business and also from other regional releases which had an overall impact of 20-25 cr ……..(remember jai ho 110cr non holiday release)
@Mohit. My friend are you dumb or pretending to be Mr Neeraj Pandey is one of the best action directors our industry has…… he along with Akshay Kumar can give Dhoom franchise whole new look ……. and I didn’t take raju hirani name in my comments even once…. under Neeraj Pandey direction we would see realistic stunts happening on the screen and that too with a good story……. he could do the same thing to the Dhoom franchise what Christopher Nolan did to Batman series in 2005 with its Dark Knight Trilogy after the debacle of Batman and Robin film in 1997………..even indicine will agree with me so u just know ur role and shut ur damn mouth….. and if you don’t know anything about Christopher Nolan thing so don’t use your shitty knowledge here……
#Brothers
#14Aug2015
There is a Storm coming…
@Himal- u supreme moron, you have counted 7 flops for Hrithik between KNPH n Koi mil Gaya. So, it means you have failed in mathematics all your life.
Fiza, Mission Kashmir took record openings when your 90’s Stars Ajay, Akshay Kumar struggled. Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage was a delayed release. Na Tum Jano Na Hum was made to launch Esha Deol. She had more scenes than Hrithik and Saif. Yaaadein was Story about Jackie Shroff n his daughters. Mujhe Dosti Karoge was centred around Rani Mukherjee.
If for you Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon sounds like a Hrithik film, then I have no words to describe your IQ. It flopped because of Kareena’s overacting.
So,u moron these are 5 flops which disappointed the audience because they wanted more of Hrithik.
Kites and Guzaarish were experimental films not the regular mainstream massy entertainers.
Still, Hrithik’s success ratio is more than Ajay Devgan’s who has given more than 30 flops and disasters.
So, u moron go n watch Raju Chacha.
Obviously the movie will collect BIG..my prediction 21cr friday….33cr satrday..n 28cr sunday i.e82crs weekend nd then 55crs on weekdays total 137 cr first week nd 200+ lyftym for sure..nd hell yeah mark my words..akki will b back wid a bang…blockbuster brothers..
@Neeraj…u hardly comment on a neutral blog nor you give some educational contribution on vital issue. Why bring on AJAY DEVGN? U have a complex or what? R u unsecured with Ajay? Neither are you his fan nor akki fan so wats d INFERIORITY COMPLEX ABOUT? @INDICINE didnt mention SUPERSTARS THAT GAVE 30-50 CRORES OPENING DAY . ?? did they? If they had and while you see Shah Aamir Salman Ajay name not hritik name then you can BARK!! LEAVE AJAY ALONE…..PLS BOOK MY SHOW IM ADVANCE FOR a HRITIK ARTICLE ON FLOPS WITHOUT RAKESH and number of Hits. It’s your job so concentrate their instead of bringing unnecessary rifts between Ajay and Akkian fans.
Are guys serious…. I mean u r saying that ek vvillan was hit because of ritesh then I think according to u Bangistan has collected 60cr. In three day…
U donkey idiot Bangistan is big disaster
Also, @Neeraj…..are you sure you are a hritik fan? Am beginning to believe you are a Rohit shetty fan??? Wow strange but cool after all he always a Sultan boy.
REMOVE AJAY DEVGN FROM ALL ROHIT MOVIE.. ROHIT IS JUST A DIRECTOR THAT HAS A BLOCKBUSTER WITH SHAH RUKH KHAN.
REMOVE ROHIT FROM AJAY ENTIRE CAREER….
AJAY PROUDLY HAS 2 NATIONAL , FILM FARE AWARDS and super hits and cult classics which from early 90s to date many neutral audiences here still can remember.
We Devgn fans will wish Akshay best of luck in brothers. I don’t give a damn if it enters 20 crores …Akshay deserves it. Lastly @Neeraj…we Devgn fans and Akki fans have a very similiar chemistry even though we will continue to argue n argue but the fact is d arguement is worthy because of both akki n ajay achievments in d industry for 23/24 years. No matter how I like hritik,he can’t even dare to dream to contribute to Hindi cinema and audience heartss like how Ajay Akshay and the 3 khans have done right from when Hritik was playing KABADI as a kid in JUHU BEACH!!
Back to @indicine…
Yes he will definitely beat his old record. I think it can earn 140-160. SID will definitely attract crowd but let’s face it’s still an Akshay kumar movie. Best of luck
Thank you Akshay kumar for at least doing a quality remakes now like Brother after doing some cheap south craps, great that you have been change now unlike our Bhojpuri Bhaijaan the worst actor of India who is becoming more cheap with the passage of time by doing every cheap remake of south, this is his goal and target to do all cheap south remakes to damage bollywood and when he doesn’t find any cheapest film then he calls Sohail Khan, Kabir khan or Gunday’s director to do movies with him so that he can do more crap films with them than doing south craps… & later when thinks it is not enough to damage b’wood then he starts writing script by his own self like he is going to write Kick 2 script now so that his dream to damage b’wood properly will come true.!!
@Neeruji is a fan of Ajay Devgan. Officially confirmed today. He is so addicted to Ajay Devgn that he keeps on repeating his name in every article. Areh bhaya,tell hritik to learn to handle his wife first talk more of having grudges with an already established star that has nothing to prove in the industry again. Pehle Biwi ko handle kar phir Ajay Saheb ko bhi control kar agar karsakta???
this BC navin uncle is using the word “bastard” again and again. He even called babaji with that adjective. But @indicine is allowing him. Morons like navin uncle should be locked in a room and given black and blue. Those who are admiring uncle’s comments are also morons.
@hrithik sorry. Correction. Aamir and Salman are expected to break each others’ records or highest records. How can you include srk who is nowhere in the competition now. So srk is now in hrithik,ajay and akshay’s league to break his own highest records. Small star like Srk can’t compete with aamir and Salman.
Kya yaar why wasting time asking public if I can break my record or not. @ indicine ter ko kya reh?? Meh Joker kumar dictionary only shows $$$$$ na box office records na national yar filmfare award SIRF KEVAL ONLY $$$$$$$$$$
after all if my name appears on Forbes for me and my fans it’s better and higher than any of Shah rukh Aamir or Salllu record.
@swanand kyon ab mirchi lagi???? Go and watch Marvel Comic parody Jadoo mil gaya, jadoo, jadoo 3. May be your idol hrithik’s math is actually very poor that after krrish he didnt call its sequel krrish 2 and called it krrish 3. Lol. What a math skills he have. Whatever you blabber, hrithik gave 7 back to back flops after KHNPH of his papa’s production. 80% of his hits are from his papa and his career depended on his papa mostly. Ajay is different all-rounder. He can still give hits without rohit shetty. SOS depite clash was superhit. A
So ajay is far better than hrithik. Hrithik has given only 9 hits in his career. While ajay has given way more. So shut your mouth and watch mosquito ki guzaarish.
@ nipun- if you insulting someone by calling him low iq, iletrate, bhojpuri (even if he isn’t bhojpuri), moron, idiot etc. what kind of respect you wanna need from others? stop this all because i didnt seen ever bigger rivalary than navin vs nipun on indicine
Areh @IamAKN welcome welcome back. New SIM card for U after Your mobil got virus because of bhajrangi bhaijaan. That’s why you have been absent. People say U @haves @sss have been hiding since bb. @sss is better he hides since success of BB but comes out like @neeraj once in a while esp if it has something to do with Ajay devgan article. So what we’re you saying.? Meaningless crap? Bb? Okay. Add
Happy New year + Don 2 = BB collection!!
@BVS that is not an excuse pls. The same u go to article on drishyam and start saying d collection is low. GIB had every chance to be a 100 crores movies? Those Hollywood movies you mentioned collection is not as much as Mi5! So instead of finding excuses for failure of GiB. Instead praise unfamiliar genre off beat drishyam that was sandwiched between Atbb blockbuster BB and bahubaal and more appreciated Mi5. Give Drishyam the opportunity GIB had I bet you it wldv crossed 100 crores by now aiming higher. So no excuses.
Brothers might do 140 Crores lifetime!!
@PK 660 Cr, I have no grudge against Aamir but you are making me say it.
X’mas ki bina Aamir Taalash Aur Dhobi Ghat..
Eid ki bina Salman Ready bhi hai..
@Budda ki lungi, TWMR beat Jai Ho… But Kangna has beaten all Akki movies black and blue.
Akki is smaller star than Kangna. Too much fun!