Chennai Express has dropped by around 10% on its 5th day at the box office. Single screens were steady on the lower side, but business at multiplexes witnessed bigger drops.
Generally, on working days, business in excess of Rs 10 crore is considered to be good, more so because the film was almost running to capacity throughout its 3 day weekend.
In 5 days, Chennai Express has collected 11.5 crores, with average collections of Rs 24.91 crores per day (which is outstanding). Since tomorrow is a national holiday for Independence Day, evening and night shows today are likely to witness a jump in business.
It remains to be seen how well Chennai Express sustains after the release of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara (releases tomorrow). The Shahrukh Khan starrer has to show growth in business over the course of its second weekend, if it has to have any chance of crossing the 200 crore mark or even go past this year’s biggest grosser Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
- Paid Previews – 6.75 crore
- Day 1 Friday – 33.12 crore
- Day 2 Saturday – 28.06 crore (15% drop)
- Day 3 Sunday – 32.50 crore (16% growth)
- Day 4 Monday – 12.62 crore (61% drop)
- Day 5 Tuesday – 11.50 crore (9% drop)
- Total – 124.55 crores
I wonder if OUATIMD will have an opening as big as CE. Since people tend to watch about one movie a week, and taking into consideration the amount of people that have already watched CE in the past week, the collections might not be as expected.. But on the brighter side it’s a holiday, and almost anything can happen . . I hope CE fares 200cr+ and OUATIMD fares 150cr+
Special 26 had a good audience rating and did 71 cr in domestic box office , rowdy rathore and housefull 2 had mixed/negative audience reviews. I feel domestic colllection is influenced by a general public readiness to watch and the movies ability to meet the expectations of viewers. Since 3 idiots released only bhaag milkha bhaag has lived to expectations of audiences. If a movie that does not have a large audience ready to watch at the cinemas no matter its content it will not threaten records eg special 26, kahaani, gangs of wasseypur, my name is khan, talaash. The huge numbers that watched chennai express just shows the expectations from the SRK starrer and more than two-thirds are pleased with its content and may watch imagine persons contributing 15 cr from the opening weekend watch 3 times , it will need just a new audioence to pay 60 cr to break 3 idiots record.
Note this is the most apprecisted SRK film since my name is khan by the theatre audiences and looking at its start a record lifetime particularly at home is on the cards.
Movies that could have broken 3 Idiots record if universally accepted
2011 Bodyguard
Ra One
2012 Housefull 2
Rowdy Rathore
Ek Tha Tiger
Son of Sardaar (without clash)
Dabangg 2
2013 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Chennai Express
Besharam
Dhoom 3
Not including Krrish 3 because i think high viewership of trailers suggest possible
multiplex views or illegal downloads, though the record youtube views and likes is good it
may just mean that persons will sit at home to download if it is cheaper than a theatre
ticket. Anurag Kashyap films have a big following on social network sites competing
with the likes of aamir and shahrukh and even far ahead of salman, while it is easy for
salman to touch 150 cr at home and $ 8M overseas, kashyap’s films do not reach 75 cr
at home or $ 4M overseas, at least for now.
A contributor from Nigeria.
Record tod expressss
just one word..outstanding…
These collections r far better than the collection of a so called “blockbuster” , which dropped by 200% on its 2nd day itself.
@empty brain zone So maths was another subject of yours you never did well at in school..! So sad
@xzone : learn the difference between 55% n 200% n Holiday + weekend n Holiday + working day.