Dangal 2nd Weekend Box Office Collections: Decimates records

Aamir Khan’s Dangal has decimated records in its second weekend. The film has recorded yet another 30 crore plus day at the domestic box office, to take its total above the 270 crore mark in just 10 days.

The numbers that Dangal has managed to put up are unreal:

• The ‘2nd weekend’ collections of Dangal is higher than the ‘1st weekend’ collections of all 2016 films except Sultan.
• The ‘2nd weekend’ business alone would make it to Top 10 highest grossers of 2016.
• Dangal will also become the first film ever to collect Rs 100 crore or more in its 2nd week.
• The 2nd Sunday is higher than the opening day collections of Dangal.
• The 10th day collection of Dangal makes it to the Top 25 highest single-day collections of all time.

The trend is better than both Bajrangi Bhaijaan and PK, which makes Dangal becoming the highest grosser of all-time, a certainty. Whether the film crosses the 400 crore mark or not would now depend on how it holds up in the next couple of days.

The Christmas – New Year holidays have come to an end, but if Dangal manages to record double-digit numbers over the next 4 days, then 400 crore will be well within reach.

It has to be noted that Dangal still needs nearly 128 crore to become the first film to 400 crore. In other words, the collections after the 2nd weekend will have to be higher than what films like Rustom, Airlift and MS Dhoni: The Untold Story have managed to collect from Day 1.

But with 11 days to go for the release of ‘Ok Jaanu’ and more than 3 weeks for the release of ‘Raees’ and ‘Kaabil’, anything is possible if ‘Dangal’ manages to hold up in the next few days.

Dangal is the 5th consecutive ‘Highest Grosser Of The Year’, ‘Highest Grosser Of All-Time’ and ‘All Time Blockbuster’ for Aamir Khan during Christmas. His previous Christmas releases were Ghajini, 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3 and PK.