Can Akshay Kumar beat the opening of Airlift and match Housefull 3?

The big question on Friday is going to be about the kind of initial that Akshay Kumar’s ‘Rustom’ takes, as it goes up against Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Mohenjo Daro’. The trailer and the aggressive promotional campaign have both helped create quite a lot of buzz around ‘Rustom’, even though the response to the advance booking of both films isn’t upto expectations.

Trade sources say, the interest for ‘Rustom’ at metro cities is higher than Akshay’s last two films – ‘Housefull 3’ and ‘Airlift’.

‘Airlift’ which was targeted at the multiplex audience collected Rs 12.35 crore on its opening day, while ‘Housefull 3’ which was a franchise film and appealed to a larger section of the audience, collected Rs 15.21 crore.

Due to the clash, ‘Rustom’ will be running on fewer shows at multiplexes. So anything in between the first day of ‘Airlift’ and ‘Housefull 3’ would be a excellent opening day total for ‘Rustom’.

Will Akshay’s latest release beat ‘Airlift’ and challenge the first day total of ‘Housefull 3’? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.