Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty has collected Rs 40 crore in its first weekend, with fantastic growth in business on Sunday. Apart from Special 26 (which did well at select screens), no other Akshay Kumar film in recent times have fared well at high-end multiplexes, but Holiday had fantastic growth both at single-screens and multiplexes on Sunday.
Holiday could well be the first film in recent times, for which the official figures for Saturday were actually lower than our estimates! While the film was down at mass-centres on Saturday, but multiplexes witnessed significant growth.
On Sunday, the film was up all over and early estimates from around 35 screens suggests that Holiday has collected around 15-16 crore on Friday. Actuals will be updated at around 5PM.
Can the film cross the 100 crore mark, giving Akshay Kumar, who had a poor 2013, the perfect start for 2014? Looking at the trends, it should. The first weekend business of Holiday is about 3 crore higher than 2 States, which crossed the 100 crore mark, so if the A.R Murugadoss film trends as well as 2 States, it should not only cross the 100 crore mark, but it could also go on to be the highest grosser of the year and Akshay’s 2nd highest career grosser.
Having said that, the next 4 days will be absolutely crucial for the film, if it has to recover its high costs from theatrical business. Holiday, sold for an exorbitant price considering the box office performance of Akshay’s last few releases, will have to collect at least 90-95 crore to emerge a hit.
Holiday First Weekend Collections (actuals for Friday and Saturday, estimates for Sunday)
- Friday – 11.62 crore
- Saturday – 12.39 crore
- Sunday – 15-16 crore (approx)
- Total Weekend Business – 39 – 40 crore
Seen it and loved it.
Sunday will b 17 and today 8.5
Hope it sustains today.7.5cr+ today means the game is on!!!
Will Holiday be a sleeper hit?
Holiday first week collection would be 65 cr then second week 30 cr and rest of days 10 cr so lifetime might touch 105 cr because after 2 nd week holiday will lose huge amount of screen at best it can collect 105 cr still behind salman flop kick will collect almost triple of what holiday did in lifetime
Heard #holiday has the best opening weekend in Nepal of this year!!!
And 2nd best after D3 overall.
Honestly,I saw Thuppakki a year ago when Akshay sir wanted to remake it.If the promos and everything was done well,60cr+ weekend would have been a taken.Reliance is really bad at promotions!!!
Well, didn’t i tell it was targeted to the multiplex audience?
It was always targeting the multiplexes, and now it has picked up with very good word of mouth.
It will surely get past 100 cr, as general public are coming out praising the movie.
Now, waiting for Kick, again the same is targeting multiplex.
Akshay,s Holiday will be a hit.Ajay,s singham returns will be also hit & Emraan,s Raja Natwarlal will be also a success. Looks like this year belongs to Underperformer of 2013.
And also previous films of other actors affect their next films.
Akshay sir did k786,sp26 opened lower but received much appreciation.And OUATIMD opened housefull!!!
But Akshay sir is back!!!
Holiday is trending quiet descently in the weekend. This will encourage Akshay Kumar to do more South Remakes and hopes to Ajay Devgan and Salman khan.
Akshay, Ajay and Salman are protecting their stardom with the help of South Remakes. If the trend is broken then these star wouldn’t be a star anymore.
Inspite of Superb WOM, it did only 15 Cr on Sunday.. It should have done atleast 22 Cr on Sunday.. This shows that Public are not interested to watch Akshay’s films now a days..
While watching south DVD, Salman khan and Akshay kumar should also watch Kamal Hassan and Mohanlal films so that they could learn acting from these legends.
Akki’s movie is doing well?! I’m done with life..
I think most anticipated films have chance of becoming hit but Raja Natwarlal has no chance of becoming even a hit or semihit. It will be Ghanchakker 2
Tu Hi Toh Hai Karar Mera……Hahahah…..Guess Christmas Came Early…….HOLIDAY…..All The Way…….Blockbuster…..!!
Akki Fans shud give grand party to everyone if Holiday crosses 100 crs. it would be a huge achievement for Akshay who was stuck in 60 crs.
mast hai boss
If monday collects 7.5 crs then Holiday would collect 100 crs
If monday collects 6 crs then the movie would collect 85 crs
If monday collects 5 crs then Akshay will retain his position as 60 crs club king
@soroop,hf2,hf3,omg,its entertainment,boby,singh is bling are not remakes,holiday script muragodas written for akshay.
@sorop,kamal hasan and mohanlal are not good looking as salman and never do action like akshay.in terms of acting both are far better than srk.
I will watch after my exams.
Indicine: the review which u gave couple of days back was the worst review ever… after reading ur review I made up my mind to not to waste money on this movie. Bt yesterday my friends forced me to come along…. and I went and yest that was the best decision made…
What a movie, best movie of Akshy in recent times. every thing about this movie was great from acting, script, dialogue to direction…loved it.. I wold give it 4 stars..
If promoted well,then weekend would have been 60 crs
far better than previous akki movie supperb must watch
movie is one time watch. not so special.
tamil thupakki (holiday) worldwide gross 180 crores so vijay regional hero >>> national hero akshay kumar
Go Holiday Go!!! I haven’t watched the Hindi version yet..would watch it soon!!! Loved SP26 which truly deserved collections more than 100crs!!! ATB Akshay Sir and team Holiday!!! :)
Lifetime will surely touch 110 cr in India and gross 225 cr
10 years later nobody will remember a film’s collection.all that they will remember is whether they liked the movie and whether it was a hit.
Thus holiday is a winning situation for akki.