As expected, Dhurandhar: The Revenge is off to a strong start at the box office, collecting ₹102.55 crore nett across 21,728 shows on its first day in India. The Aditya Dhar-directed film has already collected ₹64.00 crore internationally—taking its total collection to around ₹236.63 crore, reports showed.
Dhurandhar 2 has already surpassed the opening-day worldwide collections of cult hits including Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, Pathaan, Jawan, and Kalki 2898 AD, THE WEEK had previously reported. However, it has not yet surpassed the opening-day worldwide collection of RRR. The spy-action thriller is only about a dozen or so crore short of the Rajamouli film.
"Dhurandhar 2 grossed well over 100 crore nett on its opening day, including premieres. No other Bollywood film had ever reached anywhere near this mark, making the Ranveer Singh-starrer the first film ever to do so by a big margin," Sacnilk said in a report.
The film earned over ₹43 crore from paid previews on Wednesday—the highest ever for an Indian film—after it opened in cinemas on the back of record advance bookings, with over 15 lakh tickets sold, including paid previews.
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After Dhurandhar: The Revenge managed to gross ₹200 crore on its opening day, it became the first Bollywood movie in history to breach that mark. The previous record was held by Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan, which had managed around ₹130 crore gross.
The spy thriller also became the first Bollywood movie to go past the ₹50 crore mark internationally. The previous best, once again, was held by Jawan, which scored around ₹39 crore.
Produced by Jyoti Deshpande and Lokesh Dhar, Dhurandhar: The Revenge features Ranveer Singh as Jaskirat Singh Rangi, a young man who transforms into covert operative Hamza Ali Mazari, operating deep inside Pakistan. The sequel charts Mazari's rise in the Karachi underworld while tracing the origins of the man behind the cover.
Actors R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, Sara Arjun, and Rakesh Bedi also feature in the sequel, which was released in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.
[Data is compiled from independent sources linked to distributors and theater owners. Estimated figures could have a correction in the following day(s) when revised figures are obtained. This website doesn't take responsibility for the authenticity of these numbers]