Sarkar Raj was expected to open big, especially since the Indian Premiere League, which had affected almost all movies (except Jannat) big time, finally ended last week. But unfortunately, Sarkar Raj opened to average collections on Friday afternoon but box office collections picked up during the later part of the day. The collections on single screens especially at smaller centres were 25 – 35% which is below average to disappointing.
At the multiplexes the movie did much better during the evening and night shows with 100% collections at all the major centres. The strong word of mouth and good reports seems to have helped the Bachchan starrer.
The Box office opening of Sarkar Raj was affected due to several reasons
– Ram Gopal Varma’s disastrous Aag and Darling last year. The audience seemed to have lost trust in the maker of classics like Satya and Company.
– Abhishek Bachchan going through a lean patch with flops in the form of the much-hyped Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag.
– Heavy rains around the country.
But with good reviews pouring in, Saturday and Sunday could see a change in the fortunes of Sarkar Raj. The movie is expected to do extremely well over the week end. Hopefully, it will as Sarkar Raj is very important for both RGV and the Bachchans!
More on the weekend box-office soon. Stay tuned!
Check out the – Sarkar Raj Review
Awesome, mind blowing , must watch movie.
Superb Performances. Defin’ly, It will get lots of awards for this year.
Amitabh Bachchan Rocks…….
SR is definitely going to be the first runaway superhit of the year. It has already taken an awesome opening and the the figures are already around 23 crores. Amitabh rocks!!!!!!!!!!
SARKAR RAJ WHAT A MOVIE 5 STAR OUT OF 5
very good moviie .i think abhishek has come a long way and there is nothing to say about big b coz whatever he does noone complains about.must watch movie at lease ramu is back on track with this one
fantastic movie. a masterpiece in fact. very highly recommended. loved it entirely. dark, thrilling and full of shocks. RGV, Big B and AB rock.
It is a classic movie. I have not seen such an outstanding movie for long time.
Yes, ramu did it. It hit the screen from no where after the digester of his previous flops. This is the must watch movie with great artists of 71mm.
Excellent. truly Master Piece
US Top 10 and UK Top 5 Film is a flop???? Insane Reviewers….
Sarkar Raj has registered massive opening weekend collections. Yet a collection of trade media writers which an industry source calls ‘loosely organized propogandists posing as trade analysts’ at major portals, magazines and tv channels have declared the opening poor and film as having been rejected when the opening Friday collections told a different story.
The film may or may not drop over the weekdays (monsoon outpour and overflooding in Maharashtra and some other parts of the country are expected to affect collections for next couple days) but the fact is the opening Fri-Sat-Sun collections all over the country are so high that even with a crash the first week billings of Sarkar Raj would be among the highest recorded in recent times. In Mumbai while some theaters did show a drop on Monday, many were rock steady despite heavy flooding in the city. Eternity Mall theater in Thane-Mumbai recorded around 50% for its Monday night 11pm show, which is not insignificant and higher than opening collections recorded by many recent ‘hits’. Moving up north the film saw multiple sellouts Monday evening in Indore, in Gurgaon, as well as in Delhi NCR. And in the south, the film can already be termed a hit with the crowds recorded by theaters like Inox Banglore and Prasads, Hyderabad on Monday evening. In the smaller centers up north like Ranchi in Jharkhand, Sarkar Raj drew 95% over the weekend. Even overseas in USA the film has opened to an encouraging response fetching the biggest start for the Ram Gopal Varma politico-gangster genre. In India, there is expected to be some decline over the weekdays but independent tracking indicates that the collections recorded on Friday and Saturday alone ensure a big week 1. So why then are the trade media spinning a different tale? Some are claiming the opening was nonexistent. Some are claiming the opening was poor followed by a pick up and followed by pick down, which does not correlate with pattern, or logic.
Explains an industry source, “these so called trade analysts are similar to the villains shown in Sarkar Raj…they have been preplanning on how to try to derail the Bachchans and Ram Gopal Varma in the media for ages. But they are more or less helpless, the film has already recovered huge collections…multiplexes were housefull since Friday and single screens were 80-90% also. As for not doing 100% opening show, when you have 20 shows a day screening with this type of saturation which blockbuster has opened to 100%? None. Unless you actually believe these 2 bit movies like Jannat are opening to 100% and doing blockbuster business while Bachchan movies like Sarkar Raj are opening to 20%. We too would [be surprised at these claims] if we didn’t know better that many of these so called media ‘critics’ and ‘trade writers’ are part of a particular political lobby themselves.”
As such independent sources believe while there are ambivalent reports on the film, there is enough positive response. To elaborate, while a section of the Bachchan fans were by default restrained by the fact that the masala element of a Kajra Re was not to be expected in this type of film; but perhaps more to the film’s detriment is the fact that the Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai angle has not been fully or even substantially exploited (a la a Guru), keeping a section of men and women not so interested in political details and violence from repeating the Ram Gopal Varma film.
And yet there is significant support from the cult segments of the unconventional RGV style of filmmaking that renders the film to stand a good chance of faring along the way of Sarkar I over the coming weeks.
More interestingly, while the original Sarkar opened fantastically in Mumbai but did not do as big elsewhere, this one may eventually fare better outside Mumbai.
But even if the film didn’t go on to sustain as well as it has opened, Sarkar Raj is not an opulent overseas shot film or the most expensive film ever a la the mega budget epics like Jodha Akbar or a Dhoom 2 or even a Tashan. There are no Greece lakes or Swiss mountains in Sarkar Raj. The entire film was shot mostly on location in Hyderabad. Ram Gopal Varma and the producers have already cleverly made their profits selling the worldwide distribution rights to Balaji for 38 crores last August. And yet the distributor cost is just about half of the 63 crore distribution cost for an alleged ’super hit’ like Race. So given the opening alone, Sarkar Raj will cross the 38 crore collection mark in little time over the coming days. And if it does sustain, it will go onto become another thumping hit.
I saw the movie on 15th June Sunday morning 11.100 am show. Movie hall was 75% full on a Sunday morning in the second week! So called trade analyssts had to eat humble pie in case of Jodha Akbar. Looks like same story is repeating here. In the information age, these tactics of harming a movie by interested groups is difficult to succeed. But fact is, you can not escape anti-lobying when you are the most powerful family of the industry.
i dunno why some ppl around trying to make it down which seems nowhere affecting coz it’s already a hit and on the path to become a super hit.I not a fan of any actor but whenever there somthing fine churns out i or i may guess anybody should hesitate to appreciate that.
SR is going to be the boggest blockbuster of Bollywood.. but some srk fans and his fevoured analyst are trying to derail the movie by giving negative report.. even some channels are giving wrong report. But yet it running houseful. n bangalore ut was houseful throughout the first week and seconr week its around 80% in multiplexes. It opened with 75shows in Bangalore which itself is a record.. But due to release of Dashavatar of Kamal hasan second week screening has reduced..
And in oversea it has alredy grossed 25Cr as on 15tyh jun.check boxofficemojo.com for clarification..
Boxofficeindia.com is worst and most biased site I ever came across..Its against Bachchans,, Even Bachchan old movies are rated much below both in collection as well as verdict..
its a great movie amitabh is rocks at preasent no body can touch him he is the boss of indian cenama also abhi and ash is great
One of the best films. Great performance by Amitabh. Man one of thefew wonders on the world this great bachan !
Go watch and enjoy some great performances
Movie is very good and Bachanns are very nice all BIG B is Superb must watch movie…………
sarkarraj is performing very good overseas,its a boxoffice hit.
SR is a very good film. some critics are giving wrong negative information about this film. Big B, Abhash done a tramendous job;
I AM A BIG FAN OF SHAHRUKH KHAN , I SEEN LAST KNIGHT SARKAR RAJ AT PVR STAYM , AUR MAINEY YEH RESULT FIND KIYA WHAT A MOVIE BY RAMGOPAL VERMA , AMITABH BACHCHAN NEY SABIT KIYA KI KYUN ? LOG KYUN UNHEY “BAAP” KEHATY HAIN , I THINK AGAR WOH KISI ACTOR K SAMNEY APNA MUNH BUND KER LIEN DAILOUGE NA BOLIEN BUS ANGRY YOUNG MAN JAISA FACE EXPRESSON DIEN TO KOI UN K SAMNEY TIK NAHEE SKTA , FILM ABHI AUR CHALEGI ” AUR AGAR UNHONEY ABHISHEK KI SHADI K MUNDUP SEY MEDIA WALO KO DHAKKEY DEKER NA BHGAYA HOTA TO AB TAK BLOCKBUSTER HO CHUKI HOTI , JAB SEY UNHONAY MEDIA KO ABHISHEK KI BARAT KA KAHNA NAHEE KHILAYA , TAB SEY MEDIA NEY QSAM KHA LI KI UNHEY HERO SEY ZERO NA BNA DIYA TO ” JHOOTI MEDIA NAAM “NAHEE …….. JAB KI YEH GLAT HAI SRASAR GALAT . MEDIA WALEY BESHRAM THAY GAYE KYUIN WNHA BIN BULAYE
THANKS TO ALL 4LOVELY COMMENTS
BIG B THE NAME OF BOLLYWOOD
BIG B INDIA KI SHAAN
AND YES I AGREE WITH U JAVED KHAN SAHIB,HAR INSAAN KI APNI PRIVATE LIFE HOTI HAI,ACTOR TO CINEMA MAIN HOTA HAI YA TV PAR,MAGAR BIG B NE SAHI KIA KE MEDIA KO SHADI SE DOOR RAKHA,WARNA MEDIA KISI NA KISI KO TV PAR SAATH ADD ZAROOR KAR KE MASALA TYAAR KARTA,KHAIR WOH TO AB BHI KAR RAHAA HAI
SIR AMITABH BACHAN BOHAT PYAAR MOHBAT WALAY INSAAN HAIN,BIG B NE HAMESHA GAREEBON KI MADAD KI HAI…….
GOD BLESS HIM
BIG B ROCK TIL END OF WORLD!
any news of sarkar raj collections in its third week , there are rumors that its collections have dropped
drastically and it is losing its collections and is only a average-above average at Boxoffice. if any body has any
news about sarkar raj regarding its boxoffice collections in its third week and overall plz inform.
sarkar raj was nice movie but don’t know why certain section of critics and media are hell bent to pull
this movie down
Hi pappu
Actualy my people khans fans will hate rgv & Big B, coz if they do a super hit film than thosr khans will not loose repuation in film field, unfartunately rgvs & Big B Agg film was flop,they was waiting to pull they legs even for sarkar raj, but they are foolish to do that coz RGV & bIB b are like ocean no body can see the end of there capacity & performance in the film world, Big B is sarkar is real film field also they are negative rool like assen qazi,Ganga & Kantilal Ora as we see in sarkar raj, but if u observe we see tham as 420 actor like khans
big b is daddy of indian cinema.number of successful films given by him is around 60,while srk has only 25.srk has miles 2 go 2 touch big b.sr is a success.
If anybody has not watched SARKAR RAJ, than he is losing a big thing in his life.BIG B means big baaap of indian cinema.
sarkar raj is by far the best movie of 2008…amitabh bachhan roxxx like never before….rock on amitji
so what’s the official word on sarkar raj whether it is a hit or flop bcoz IBOS has declared it as a hit in maharastra,south and semi-hit in other parts but boxofficeindia site has declared it as a flop so plz can the people concerned with trade tell me whether it is hot or flop?
sr is a hit film.in every newspaper toi,economic times hindu the verdict is hit in maharashtra and south,semi hit elsewhere.only biased boi is saying it a flop.it has collected 35 cr in domestic market and 11 cr in overseas.it is a must success.boi is completely baised site against big b.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=sarkarraj.htm
total gross till date 72 Crores…
overseas 18 crores plus..
domestic 54 crores and counting…
The film has not done well only in rural pockets like Rajasthan, Bihar else its a hit film elsewhere…
and BOI.com is a Crook they themselves promote the Khan’s out n out including calling MBPA a above average film and SR a Flop….