Superman Beats Maalik At The Box Office

After
comedies
like

Bhool
Chuk
Maaf
and

Stree,
National
Award-winning
actor
Rajkummar
Rao
tries
hard
core
action
in
the
gangster
film,

Maalik.

He’s
given
many
intense
performances
before
but
a
full-on
masala
movie
is
a
first
for
him.

As
expected,
he’s
done
well,
and
the
film,
set
in
the
heartland,
has
found
takers
primarily
in
the
interiors
and
amongst
single
screen
audiences.

There
are
certain
limitations
when
it
comes
to
a
story
with
a
set
up
like
this
at
an
all-India
level,
and
hence
a
box
office
opening
of
Rs
4
crore
(Rs
40
million)
would
have
been
the
best
case
scenario
for
the
film.
And
the
film
opened
at
Rs
4.02
crore
(Rs
40.2
million)
on
Friday.

The
Tips
production
saw
a
reasonably
wide
release,
which
means
that
there
was
ample
scope
for
the
film
to
grow.

The
numbers
did
go
up
on
Saturday
with
Rs
5.45
crore
(Rs
54.5
million)
coming
in,
and
Sunday
crossed
the
Rs
6
crore
(Rs
60
million)
mark.

As
a
result,
the
film
has
crossed
Rs
15
crore
(Rs
150
million)
over
the
weekend
and
now,
one
waits
to
see
how
it
will
sustain
on
weekdays.

Aankhon
Ki
Gustaakhiyan
has
turned
out
to
be
a
non-starter.

The
film
managed
to
cross
Rs
1
crore
(Rs
10
million)
over
the
weekend
when
ideally,
this
should
have
been
its
first
day
number.

The
Vikrant
Massey-Shanaya
Kapoor
starrer
was
reasonably
well
promoted
but
unfortunately
audiences
weren’t
enticed.

The
Hollywood
movie

Superman
was
the
audience’s
first
choice.

After
taking
a
good
start
of
over
Rs
7
crore
(Rs
70
million),
it
continued
to
grow
well
over
the
weekend,
hence
resulting
in
a
weekend
that
comfortably
gathered
around
Rs
26
crore
(Rs
260
million).
The
film
is
all
set
to
emerge
as
a
success
story
in
India.

*Estimates.

Note:
All
collections
as
per
various
box
office
sources.

Photographs
curated
by
Manisha
Deshpande/Rediff