After breaking the ‘paid preview’ record previously held by 3 Idiots, Chennai Express went on to smash two more records – ‘highest opening day business’ and ‘highest single day collections’, as the film collected Rs 33.12 crore on its second day at the box office.
That’s three down, with many more to go for the Shahrukh Khan starrer. Below is our box office prediction for the remaining two days in the week and the records that Chennai Express can overtake in the next few days.
First Weekend Predictions
Saturday: The opening day collections of both Ek Tha Tiger and Chennai Express are about the same. But with business of Rs 14.52 crore, ETT dropped by 55% on its second day at the box office. Chennai Express is unlikely to witness such a huge drop, as Saturday (today) is a holiday in most parts of the country. Also, the muslim section of the audience will come out in numbers to watch the film today. So we expect the second day collections to be around Rs 23-24 crore net, which is a drop of around 30%. The record for the highest second day collections is held by SRK’s Ra One (25 crore), it’ll be interesting to see if Shahrukh can break his own record!
Sunday: Two national holidays in three days, plus a solo release – the makers of Chennai Express couldn’t have asked for more! Sunday is likely to be bigger, and business could well be close to 30 crore. Most major releases with mixed to good word-of-mouth tend to pick up by around 15-20% on Sunday. Prediction – 28 crore. The highest collections on a Sunday is held Salman’s Dabangg 2 (25 crore).
First Weekend: That totals to weekend collections of around 91 crores, which is by the biggest weekend in Bollywood history. Currently, the highest collections in 3 days is Rs 65 crore (Dabangg 2). Even with bigger drops over the weekend, Chennai Express should still comfortable net more than 80 crores.
The film could also be join the ‘100 crore club’ in 4 days, the fastest for any film in history. Again, the record is currently held by Ek Tha Tiger (5 days).
What’s your prediction for the weekend? Submit your comments below!
srk uses 3100 screens to achieve 100+ with ra.one and don 2. the fact about indian viewers is that they keep recycling some so called stars salman, aamir, shahrukh, hrithik is no longer in vogue, watched agneepath during christmas and it was one of his best performances wonder why an uninteresting dabangg 2 did better business home and away, lets check out krrish 3
chennai express predictions 92 crore in 3 days (98 crore with pp) to hit a century on monday, this is the true himmatwala film. chak de CE.
MENTAL ABHI BAKI HAI MERE DOST ,,,,,,
king khan will break all the records of bolly wood . He has the capacity to set history and he will have tough competetion with himself and it would be difficult for him to break his own records .
SRK is the real Badshah of bolly wood
Box office india stated that the film netted INR31.26 crore (US$5.3 million) [89], but trade analyst Taran Adarsh and the producers, UTV, and sites like indicine, koimoi, addatoday and bollycapsule [90] [91] claimed it collected higher figure, about INR33.12 crore (US$5.6 million), during its opening day thus making it the highest opening day of all time.[92] There was debate over the various sources but several news organizations like ABP News, The Times of India and The Business Standard verified the claim of the producers.from wikipedia.NOTE:the wikipedia movie page is protected means no one can chage the article except thier officials or some granted ones(not fake obviously)
rohit shetty does comedy with ajay devgan and it takes 37 days to touch 100 crores (singham 2011) and takes 45 crores (bol bachchan 2011) devgn has run out of form.
advice change name to Jay Devgaan. Himmatwala distributed by by UTV motion pictures shown in 3100 screens had a lifetime of 47 crore, opening weekend $199,000 in USA from 99 screens, raanjhanaa a dhanush (bollywood debutant) starrer earned $420,000 (about) from 100 screens while aashiqui 2 exhibited in 1100 screens domestically netted above 85 crores with adityy roy and shraddha kapoors, and this is the star who makes noise calling YRF unfair and he features salman khan who in fact is the star of the film which he says was used to exclude his own SOS by coercing exhibitors to screen only JTHJ. May be YRF and some biggies use powerplay to secure big revenues. Does any producer/distributor say i want to lock in my film for the screen others willing to use the theatres on my preferred date should come, 8 producers show up and negotiate between 300 & 800 screens for fair play. Mr devgn does not know business and just used son of sardar to rob viewers. I saw son of sardar 10 days ago and this is the verdict if you watched that and enjoyed it, you may try putting pepper in your eyes and the enjoyment will be triple. Complete waste of tine, wander why such a person who is unfunny is doing in such films. Akshay is king of slapstick entertainment, film makers are underutilising hiis talent.
kahaani – vidya balan is pregnant for 2 years, walks into intelligence offices easily, fools a police department, kills milan damji easily. if the policeman cared so much about her would he not have taken her to the hospital for check-up, top notch suspense actually took me a month to find out this is low key fantasy served to as as reality, in fact Sujoy Ghosh fools us with engaging screenplay and characterization, harry potter may be more realistic.
bol bachchan took 45 days to reach 100 crores (so i mearnt)
3 idiots – omi vaidya and boman irani are its true stars, sharman joshi is underutilised, r madhavan is okay, aamir khan comes with some ideas particularly challenging society, though showing him top the class is inconsistent with his lifestyle, other things about rancho are okay. Kareena okay except that she forces aamir to romance her in one scene.
nice aspect – introduction by prof virus
– defintion of machine by silencer
– rancho dispelling unhealthy competition and rivalry
– rancho talking about having a passion for work and steady
– rancho criticises choice of jobs for material gains
loony aspect – seniors stamping juniors buttocks
– students undressing to greet seniors
– piya suggesting rancho is gay or impotent
– indolent students top classes
– deliver scene, vacuum cleaner concept interesting but lacking finesse making piya
the saving grace,
Best movie ever
srk rocks
to cross 15 aug movie gain 150cr
Who care boi, acc to boi yjhd break d2 openning as well as weekned record, is this diegest salman fan, ce officially broke ett record thats it.
I want 100 crores in 3 days
chennai express minimum 150 crore at domestic box office
Great news ce saturday 28.05 cr taran adarsh.If sunday is 32cr than 100cr weekend.
I see there are lot of new ids commenting which may be fake or one fan carrying multiple ids. only srk fans can do that.
Weekend – 100 cr
week 1-153cr
week 2-186 cr
week 3-197 cr
week 4-201
week 5-202.4cr
lifetime-203.9 cr
“Chennai Express Thursday previews (earned) Rs 6.75 crore, Friday (opening day) Rs 33.12 crore, Saturday Rs 28.05 crore, Sunday Rs 32.50 crore. Total Rs 100.42 crore nett. Monstrous weekend… India business only,” Taran Adarsh posted on Twitter.
All the best SRk
haha…ita already 101 cr on the first weekend…grt job srk…we ae proud of u…
The best movie in a while.
All the best.
From all fans in Trinidad W.I.