The trailer of Chennai Express is out and the film looks like a complete family entertainer with action, comedy, romance and good music. With Balaji postponing the release of their upcoming film Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara, Shahrukh Khan is set to take centre-stage during the extended Eid weekend starting 8th August.
The festive weekend has been record-breaking, credit for which goes entirely to Salman Khan. It all started with Dabangg in 2010 breaking the previous record of 3 Idiots. A year later, Bodyguard took a earth shattering opening, collecting Rs 21 crore on it’s opening day. Last year, Salman successfully completed a Eid hattrick with Yashraj Films’ Ek Tha Tiger breaking all previous records with highest single day collections of Rs 32.92 crore. The film eventually went on to collect Rs 100 crores in 5 days!
The year-on-year growth in business is staggering:
- 1. Dabangg (2010) – 14.5 crore
- 2. Bodyguard (2011) – 21 crore (44% growth)
- 3. Ek Tha Tiger (2012) – 32.92 crore (57% growth)
If the trend continues, Chennai Express might come close or even better the opening day collections of ETT, as 8th August marks the end of Ramadan and 9th August is a national holiday for Eid-ul-fitr. Business is likely to pick up after the holiday, on Saturday and Sunday, as the muslim section of the audience come out in numbers to watch the film, as was the case with Ek Tha Tiger last year.
We asked a few distributors, exhibitors and box office enthusiasts who follow the trade closely – to predict the opening day, opening weekend (4 days) and opening week collections of Chennai Express. Finally, we averaged the numbers out.
- 8th August, Thursday – 25 crore (opening day)
- 9th August, Friday – 29 crores (national holiday)
- 10th August, Saturday – 18 crores
- 11th August, Sunday – 26 crores (Holiday)
- Extended 4 day Weekend – 98 crores
- First Week (7 days) – 132 crores
Note: Chennai Express is likely to release on 3400+ screens across the country.
What are your box office predictions for Chennai Express? Post in the comments section below.
1st day-22.4 3rd weekend-10cr,3rd week-19cr 3weeks=199cr
2nd day-27
3rd day-15
4th day- 22
3 weekdays 28
1st week=115app.
15th aug-13
2nd fri-11
2nd sat and sun-24 lifetime=205cr
4 weekday-17
15 days collection=180cr THIS IS POSSIBLE IF IT GETS ACCEPTED BY CLASSES LIKE YJHD OR 3I
AS EVERYONE KNOWS THAT MASSES WILL lOVE IT.
1st day-22.4 3rd weekend-10cr,3rd week-19cr 3weeks=199cr
2nd day-27
3rd day-15
4th day- 22
3 weekdays 28
1st week=115app.
15th aug-13
2nd fri-11
2nd sat and sun-24 lifetime=205cr
4 weekday-17
15 days collection=180cr THIS IS POSSIBLE IF IT GETS ACCEPTED BY CLASSES LIKE YJHD OR 3I
AS EVERYONE KNOWS THAT MASSES WILL lOVE IT.
peaks to be reached by srk.
* Ready : I guess this time srk will finally surpass Ready all thanks to Jittu Ji.
* Ranbir’s YJHD : a non holiday release. currently riding at 145 crores n may add another 20 crores. CE will never collect this much.
Not to forget ROWDY RATHODE n Agneepath!!!! There will be still excuses by srk fans despite solo festival release.
The last action scene in the trailer is copied from the south movie alex pandian, if you don’t believe me, then go check yourself.
THE TRUTH is this movie if very good word of mouth will collect around 150 cr, not more than that. mark my words. If not good word of mouth then it will collect around 120 cr.
CE .1day-23cr .2day-27cr .3day-14cr .4day-21cr wekend-85cr&weekdays. 5day-10cr .6day-8cr 7day, 7cr . 8day-6cr total 1week-116cr
150 in 7 days and 2nd week will be around 35-45 life time will be 180+
See the Indicine’s JTHJ boxoffice predictions some time back: http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/jab-tak-hai-jaan-hit-or-flop-box-office-prediction/ (Check the worst case scenario)
@Indicine I know that the CE predictions are not yours as you said. :)
i think
8th agust: 25 crore
9th : 30 cr
10th : 20 cr
11th : 28 cr
100 cr will cross within 4 days nd fast week 140cr+ definitely
“BLOCKBUSTER” lifetime collection is more than 195+
Max business Chennai Depress can do is 120cr in its entire theatrical run…!
It will be K786/ Himmatwala the second coming. It may beat Srks best BO record and Rohits best but to beat Ready it has no chance unless the entire 3.8 billion srkians watch this movie on youtube twice sorry I meant in theatres where ticket sales count and not ‘Likes’…! :-)
@xzone Class audiences are now firmly in Ranbirs corner son. Srk has been abandoned by the masses, classes and half the srkian fanbase- but I guess some people are blind to whats staring them right in the face…!
Rofl…… ‘Crap express’ looks like a Ra.1 part 2 with a desi story line with double crappiness, some people are still dreaming that it will cross 200 crores or 150 crores but remember what happened to ra.1…. The same will happent to this.
Forget it collecting 132 crores in 7 days, we will be more than happy if it collects 123+ crores in india.
chennaiexpress spoiler is trending on twitter.
srk fans just check it once.this is power of akki fans
I surely say ce don,t brake any single record of ett and 100 cr. In 4 day that is srk dream it is impossible for srk
160 crore lifetime max. because of ouatim2 coming after its 1st week…..
180+crores..
If OUTIMD fails den king khan at the top of the box office record…..
Insha Allah shahrukh wil reach 200 crores nett domestically dis time…!!!
1st day 16 crores
2nd day 25-28 crores
3rd day 18-20 crores
4th day 20- 22 crores
4 day weekend 79-86 crores
If the content is good otherwise 3rd day would be lesser then what i predicted
@tejas but u told me that Chennai Express will struggled to cross the 100crore mark…..!!! Did u remember?????
1st day : 45cr
2nd day : 36cr
3rd day : 23cr
4th day : 39cr
5th day : 21cr
6th day : 20cr
7th day : 19.5cr
total 203.5 cr…ce turned out to be a massive all time blockbuster in bollywood history…
ce express will collect 100cr in 8 days
ce will not collect more than 135cr.
i am a die hard srk fan.
but frankly i prefer good movie,rather than some average movie collecting 150 crores.
just like last year kahaani,barfi,vicky donor,pan singh tomar were my first choice.
looking at the holidays it has , the film should do 100 crore in first 4 days. first extended week (130) should be around 130 crores and life time collection will be around 170 crore.
Wow ! CE will be srk’s and bollywoods all time blockbuster-salman fans will be jelous by this movie.
Sure shot blockbuster.Will supress EVERY RECORD OF ETT AND 3 IDIOT..wait n watch srkians and haters too.
this has been seen time and again, srk’s movies are the most hyped and they perform the least, examples are ra.one.don 2,jab tak hai jaan.
@JM, yes you are right, people were saying jthj will be biggest blockbuster in history, it will cross 3 idiots blah blah but we all know what it did.
@radha i had stated that taking in mind that CE would clash with OUATIMA…but its solo release..so it will definitley not cross 140 cr! & it is releasing on holiday extended weekend , has masala genre & one of the biggest directors of that genre & an extended 8 day week!! i guess if it does not cross 140 crore then it will be very very shameful for srk….
i think 125cr in 7 days and then week 2 40cr and rest 15cr so according to this 170cr is the target no matter what kind of film if the movie is accepted then 3i and etb record under threat but avg story makes it 170cr . and the trailor is looks better than jthj .. jthj scored 122 in clash so ce has more appeal and no comp sso 160-170 possible and bored yjhd scored 160lifetime so why not ce
i predict it will collect less than150cr.