Shah Rukh Khan reigned supreme at the box office on Wednesday, proving once again that he is one of the biggest crowd-pullers the industry has ever seen. The competition was pretty much decimated right from the morning shows on Wednesday, with Raees selling more than double the number of tickets as compared to Kaabil.
The film has collected Rs 20.43 crore on Wednesday, becoming the first film of 2017 to cross the 20 crore mark on a single day. It has also become the highest grosser of the year in just one day, even though only ‘Ok Jaanu’ has released so far this year.
A 20 crore plus total is a solid base for Raees to grow on Thursday (holiday for Republic Day). As per estimates from the morning shows today, the business of Raees has shown growth of around 15-20% compared to the morning shows yesterday – which is excellent because the film was already running at very high levels on Wednesday morning. But what remains to be seen is what kind of impact the cricket match has on business in the evening.
Muslim-dominated areas have performed phenomenally well for Raees, with the business comparable to Post-Eid releases at places. Shah Rukh Khan is the king of the West Bengal circuit, so it came as no surprise when business was in a different league altogether for Raees. South was extraordinary too, the gap between the two films was expected to be closer here, but Raees was leading by a fairly huge margin (1.96 times average) throughout the day.
The first day business is at around the same level as SRK’s 2015 Christmas release ‘Dilwale’, so we will be closely following the trend of the two films to see if Raees can surpass the lifetime business of the Rohit Shetty directed film.
Second day will be 25cr
imagine what would happened if it was released during eid.
With average to negative word of mouth, film will register a huge fall tomorrow. Life time under 125cr.
Raees Review:
Raees is definitely one of the best films of SRK in the last few years, The Direction was good, All the songs were placed at the right time and wasn’t forced. It has some graphic scenes, so Family Audience may want to miss it if they are going with their younger children. The Action was good and massy! The climax was long, which could have been shortened!
Acting: SRK like always has yet again given an Award worthy Performance! Nawazuddin was the show-steeler! He was just phenomenal. Zeeshan Ayyub as Raees’s sidekick was excellent. Mahira Khan was decent but could have done better! The supporting cast did good.
Overall Raees is a must watch for Single Screen and Multiplex Audience alike. Dont miss this at all.
I’m Rating it 4/5!
That moment in Raees movie when he says ” Mein bhagunga nahi, mein Bhagoda nahi hoon “. Actually he is Bhagoda, ran away from EID 2016.
Salute to RCE for not Manipulating even one lack unlike Roshans who shameless did 3 manipulation crores today !!!!!
Raees is lambe race ka ghora.
Dilwale ke tarah negative WOM nahi hai
Its positive & demands repeat views
Finger cross…
Day2: 25cr+
I’m expecting a Lifetime collection of 185cr+! Blockbuster!
20.4cr (Raees) + 10cr (Kaabil) = 30.5cr.
That’s mean combined opening day collections of Raees & Kaabil are 6cr less than Sultan’s 4th day (Saturday) collections.
LMAO!!!! ???
Proud of being a SRKian !! Pehle hi din 3 crore manipulation ke liye majboor kar diya !! Haha akele srk sir ne poori kaabil team ki leli !! Btw u should know tha hrithik celebrated his 4 th bday when he was 1 year old !!
raess all the way
You mentioned KAABIL’s WOM twice in your article about Kaabil but nothing about Raees’s WOM… At least give us an idea.. How is the WOM compared SRK’s CE and Dilwale??
only global star king SRK…
Kaabil 10.43Cr First day with less than 40 % screens
Raees , 20.42 Cr First Day with more than 60 % Screens
Raees , 14 Cr First Day with less than 40 % screens.
So
Kaabil , 10.43Cr
Raees , 14 Cr
SRK is Ghueya ka duniya ka Sabse bada SUPERSTAR
Even God can’t save SRK & RAEES from complete washout.
KAABIL All Time Blockbuster
I hope Raees will surpass Dilwale lifetime.
Raees opening 20 cr > MD 8 and Kaabil 7 cr= 15 crores combined opening ????
#Raees Trade figure : 21-21.5 cr
#Raees Producer figure : 20.5 cr
Haters, have some shame before accusing SRK of manipulating/inflating the B.O. figures.
Yesterday, when the early trends suggested 21-22 cr, I thought official collections will be in the range of 22.5-23 cr. But hats off to the producers, official figures are even lower than that of trade figures.
Bullshit indicine u can add kaabil total languages but for Raess only hindi market
I want a 25+ cr total today which looks quite possible and achievable looking at the earlier trends.
It did 14.5 cr on day 1.
kaabil showing 100% jump and raees only 15-20%.
means kaabil today 16-18cr while raees 23-24cr
bhai this clash is a xerox copy of Bajirao v Dilwale clash
I hope Raees crosses 100 crores on its 5 extended weekend which will be fantastic total if it’s achieved !!!!!!!!
Flop. Will be rejected from friday/monday.
Now all bhabitards will change their colour and will support the producer figure of kaabil,I can guaranteed on that.this is not new thing for shameless chamleon bhabitards,rofl.
20 cr is equal to 34 crores with solo release during normal day !!!!!!
That’s SRK for you.
Ye to hona hi tha
Raees has almost doubled the collections of Kaabil, though the gap is expected to narrow down today.
Expecting a total of 25cr+ for Raees and 15cr+ for Kaabil on Day 2.
Hey Raees is a great disappointing movie:(
honestly nothing in movie…
heroine is purely dumb no expressions no acting.
and further overacting of srk sir, no gud music, story in fact no story… its very worst movie even the dilwale was awesome I felt now:(
Raees has thrashed nakabil badly on day 1 and going more strong on day 2 as well
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