In just 2 weeks since its release in India, Chennai Express has become only the second film to cross the 200 crore mark. The film has been on a record-breaking spree ever since it released during the Eid weekend, and even though the SRK starrer still needs a few lakhs to cross the lifetime business of 3 Idiots, its only a matter of time now. We haven’t received the official figures yet, but the Thursday business is likely to be around 3 – 3.5 crore net.
Here’s a look at some of the records that the film has broken on its ‘super-express’ journey at the box office.
Chennai Express 200 Crore
1. Paid Previews: The 3 Idiots record of 2.75 crore, set more than 3 years ago, was broken. Chennai Express collected Rs 6.75 crore on Thursday (8th August).
2. First Day: Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger collected Rs 32.92 crore last year, a record that many believed only Krrish 3 or Dhoom 3 could break. Chennai Express though, managed to beat ETT by 20 lakhs (0.2 cr) as the film collected Rs 33.12 on its opening day at the box office.
3. Highest Single Day Collections: Another one of the records previously held by Salman’s Ek Tha Tiger was overtaken. Eid releases have always managed to smash most records, and this year was no different. However, this time around, it was Shah Rukh Khan who reigned supreme at the box office.
4. Second Day: Ra One in 2011 collected 25 crore net (including all versions) in what was back then a record-breaking 25 crore net (including all versions). Chennai Express collected 28.06 crore, which is not only the highest collections on the second day of release, but also the biggest Saturday AND the third highest single day business ever! HUGE!
5. Weekend: Chennai Express crossed the 100 crore mark in its first weekend itself (including paid previews), a record that is likely to stay for long unless a major release gets two or more holidays in its first weekend
6. Fastest to 100 Crore: Ek Tha Tiger crossed the 100 crore mark in 5 days, Chennai Express did it in almost double quick time. The Shahrukh Khan film took just 3 days + paid previews.
7. First Week: This record too was blown away quite easily. Ek Tha Tiger collected 137.15 crore in 7 days, Chennai Express did 20 crores more – 156.71 crore. The film crossed the lifetime business of every film except Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, ETT and 3 Idiots in its first week itself! And this includes humongous blockbusters like Dabangg 2, Rowdy Rathore and Bodyguard!
8. Fastest to 150 crore: Chennai Express beat the 9 day record of ETT in 7 days.
9. Fastest to 200 crore: In 2 weeks, CE also became only the second film to collect 200 crores or more.
10. Highest grosser ever: Chennai Express will be the highest grosser in the history of Indian Cinema tomorrow (most likely)!
Here are a few other records that the film holds. Clearly, Chennai Express will be the film to beat for all major releases henceforth.
- Third film to gross 300 crores or more worldwide after Ek Tha Tiger and 3 Idiots.
- Second film to gross 350 crores or more.
- Third film to cross the 100 crore mark overseas – 3 Idiots and My Name Is Khan being the other two.
- Highest first weekend / first week collections in almost every country overseas.
Too many to list, really. Congratulations to the entire team of Chennai Express, more so to Shahrukh Khan – because at the end of the day, for a masala entertainer like Chennai Express to generate the business that it has and collect more than 100 crores in the overseas markets alone, is simply unheard of!
KRK=SRK both self procliamed
srk has reclaimed his no 1 position after 5years. the biggest superstar in the last 20 years. 3 idiots was not just aamir’s movie as raju hirani is such a genius that he can give top grossers with any star. Ce was all about srk and he showed ki no1 to no1 hota hai. With 4 open weeks, cheap item songs like fevicol, salman cudnt do what srk did with one movie. Salman’s golden run is over. srk is no1, hope to see hrithik and aamir take the remaining spot. Before dabangg salman only had tere naam and wanted as solo hits. This shows how pathetic he is. His fluke is over. Salute the boss- srk!
@ haters just dreaming k3 or d3 will break ce record.
@ dxt naam amir have just one record, gone, now he is recordless, can’t diliver solo hit since 2009, it will interesting to see how much col d3, because d3 is not 3idiots just typical type action trailor like don2 and race2. You are a dog then bark otherwise live from here and
congrats to srk and rohit sheety for this milestone though ce not a deserving movie for this record but definately srk and rohit are ones who deserves
1. srk- though not like him but he is great actor no doubt
2. Rohit- after Raju Hirani only director who never failed to impress his audience
congo to both of them…….
though this is not a day to show mirror to srkians as after a long time they got the reason to celebrate those are bashed by many time to time from last 4 years and also in coming years too……..
but have to say 1 thing….
salman HAHK-70 cr 1994
srk OSO is the first movie of srk pass 70 cr mark domestic while according to his fans he ruled industry from 20 years a 13 years period while since 2002 multiplex started and business manifold twice or thrice.
so in his good phase srk never achieved to break records so how can you say that this record of ce only break by srk only….its just a matter of time and this time only srk and his fans should thanks to salman as this EID he is absense from EID, if he presents than srk will never do these kind of business….& also poor EKTA
and for Aamir he has D3 in his hand and it will definately give strong challenge to ce’s collection while srk took 4 year to break ce record while Aamir will take 4 month time to thrash this record as also predicted by Indicine…….
cheers
some people calling srk as sir who begged jitu sir
for solo Eid release n didnt answer jitu sir calls
when time came to return the favour. This is the
reality of sir srk. Lol !!!!!!
No need to be super excited. It is just matter of
few months or max 1 year when CE will loose all
records. With dirty n cheap politics to get solo Eid
release with 40% hike in tickets any big star
movie wud have achieved it !!!!
ce not a good movie
srkians : all gone nuts, CE records wont last more
than 1 year max. so enjoy it till it last after all
srkians got such moment once in 4 years whereas
salman fans have been celebrating since last 3
years.
@Gewone : Tiger will remain Tiger n Goat with
stammering voice remains a Goat !!!!! no matter
what records n collections? where is your
principles of disliking masala genre movies? all
gone due to 1 movie success?
Film will cross 202.45 cr nett of “3 Idiots” today and that is a Historical moment at box office for any film that too in 15 days.
Film has also crossed 370 cr gross which means 400 cr gross is possible. It seems that this Express will stay in cinemas for some more time.
“Chennai Express” was extraordinary in overseas and added 11 more cr on weekdays in 2nd week. Film has collected 100-100.50 cr in 2 weeks which is not only record but a tough one to break anytime soon.
“Chennai Express” looks unstoppable and already crashed almost every record possible. Film crossed two huge milestones yesterday at domestic box office and overseas. Today “Chennai Express” will be enter in the History Book as a Highest Earner Ever at Domestic Box Office.
“Chennai Express” was not a film about which trade and distributors were fully confident. But ironically film has generated highest ever distributor share in Bollywood. Film will be miles ahead by end of its run.
Distributor share is the worldwide most trusted and used way of determining success of the film including Hollywood and south east Asia.
Below, we have a full list of 17 ‘All Time Blockbusters’ in the history of the Hindi Film Industry. Chennai Express might soon join the list if the film manages to collect more than 210 crores.
Kismet (1943) – 1 crore
Rattan (1944) – 1 crore
Mother India (1957) – 4 crore
Mughal-e-Azam (1960) – 5.5 crore
Sholay (1975) – 15 crore
Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) – 5 crore
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) – 9.5 crore
Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) – 14 crore
Aankhen (1993) – 14 crore
Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) – 70 crore
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) – 61 crore
Raja Hindustani (1996) – 48 crore
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – 45.5 crore
Gadar Ek Prem Katha (2001) – 76 crore
Ghajini (2008) – 116 crore
3 Idiots (2009) – 202 crore
Dabangg (2010) – 143 crore
so from above lisr srk took his 21 years to give highest grosser moves till date, Aamir did 20 years with Ghajini and salman & hritik taken 5 & 6 years respectively by giving HAHK & Dhoom2 respectively though Dhoom 2 is not in the list but as it was highest grosser ever till 2006 it should call ATBB.
so from this list srk took the longest time to giving highest grosser in bollywood and srk fans are talking that this will not break by other and will break only by srk so foolish and overjoyed fans……
and even srk confess in media that ce record will be break in coming time easily if srk have guts to say y not his fans have guts to speak clear……
In terms of talent
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@ginger dont worry my friend nothing can spoil my mood, nothing did at ra1 days and nothing will do now
i feel happiness when i show those morons how stupid they are :D
i am flying from happiness and will always what ever happend, money records dosent mean anything to me but since it means alot to those morons i am happy that SRK crashed them all and gave them a v.hard slap on their face
so i am overjoyed and will be forever as long as my king still giving me new movies, new laughs, new reasons for happiness :).
@Gandu one I think you are the 1 who ‘not should’ but must do that :D
by the way i reply each moron only once so enjoy ur moment of fame ;) :D
congrats srk & all the technicians of Chennai Express,the acting of srk is fantastic ,if ce got 2,3 weeks open week it may collect more than 300 cr.atbb
the comic timing of srk & dp is mindblowing.all the dialouges are excellent.it should collect 225 cr.atbb
ce rocks
srk rocking
hahaha Who is The King now ??? SRK ! I’m very happy for him ,Rohit and Deepika Padukone.”Chennai Express” is lovely,sweet and so funny movie !
@dark boy…u r talking as if srk is the only actor, who has released his movie at eid….perhaps u forgot ur remake khan, who is still feeding the earning of his consecutive releases…bt the worst part is, despite of getting an eid release and 3 open weeks, he failed to cross 3 idiot….perhaps he needs 8 open weeks and 5000 screens…lol..and now, when srk smashed the record withing 15 days, u started crying..
And if u r saying that he brought new enemies like “akki” and “ekta”, then i wanna remind u that “don k dushman ki sabse badi galati yehi hai k wo don ka dushman hai”
Completely agree wid u guys dis train is unstoppable
unbeatable .. congrats @iamsrk , DP, Rohith Shetty &
d whole team of ChennaiExpress , UTV, REDCHILLES
Entertainment ..after a v long time a clean family movie , really enjoy full on laughing spree , thanks
lets count your jealousy level in a scale from “0….to….aamir”
enough said..dont be so jealous ,afterall he is no king if with 1movie he breaks record of every movie like 3chutiyas n ett..well ,team up of this jealous fans combination amir+salman..hahaha
@aks you should remember devdas(2002), veer zara(2004), oso(2007) is the higest grosser in domestic and from 2001 onwards each and every film of srk film is the highest grosser in oversease. Srk success ratio is 65% where salman 52%, thats why srk is called king khan.
And 200cr is not easy to cross if adience don’t repect to watch the film. For your kind information k3 is a sci fi film like ra1 and d3 is a action trailor like race2 or don2, so indicne will pridict if both film accepted then sure cross 200cr but we know what happend with ra1 and don2 where indicine pridicted hf2 and rowdy rathor col 60cr max but col 130cr plus. So note my words as dis year no salman release ce records are safe atleast a year and in india 3type film works
1 massala film
2 romantic film
3 comedy film.
Congratulations Team Chennai Express! The most amazing one is a masala film doing 100 cr overseas! Truly power of King Khan!
And Rohit Shetty is master of commercial cinema!
congrats to chennai express team