It’s a case of our ‘early estimates’ taking the sheen away from the real achievement of Sultan on Day 1. The film was phenomenal on its opening day at the box office, even though it was ‘Pre-Eid’ and Wednesday wasn’t a full-fledged national holiday either.
FAN vs Sultan isn’t a fair comparison, because a more commercial Shah Rukh Khan film would’ve been closer. After all, Dilwale even with a clash, managed to collect 21 crore on its opening day.
However, Sultan has nearly doubled the collections of FAN and more than doubled the collections of a franchise film like ‘Housefull 3’. In short, there is no comparison – Sultan is way ahead of every other film this year and has collected more than the lifetime collections of several medium budget films on its first day itself.
Sultan is also the sole ‘bumper’ opener of 2016. Only ‘Baaghi’ and a few other Hollywood film have managed ‘excellent’ opening, the rest were good or under.
| Movie | Day 1 | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Sultan | 36.54 | Bumper |
| Dangal | 29.78 | Excellent |
| MS Dhoni | 21.30 | Excellent |
| FAN | 19.2 | Good |
| Housefull 3 | 15.21 | Good |
| Rustom | 14.11 | Excellent |
| Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | 13.30 | Excellent |
| Airlift | 12.35 | Good |
| Baaghi | 11.94 | Excellent |
| Dishoom | 11.05 | Good |
| Befikre | 10.36 | Good |
| Shivaay | 10.24 | Average |
| The Jungle Book | 10.09 | Excellent |
| Udta Punjab | 10.05 | Good |
| Mohenjo Daro | 8.87 | Poor |
| Dear Zindagi | 8.75 | Good |
| Captain America Civil War | 8.53 | Excellent |
| Batman vs Superman | 8.32 | Excellent |
| Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 | 8.15 | Average |
| Ki and Ka | 7.30 | Good |
| Ghayal Once Again | 7.20 | Average |
| Rocky Handsome | 7.16 | Average |
| A Flying Jatt | 7.10 | Poor |
| Kapoor And Sons | 6.85 | Good |
| Baar Baar Dekho | 6.81 | Poor |
| Raaz Reboot | 6.30 | Average |
| Azhar | 6.30 | Average |
| Force 2 | 6.05 | Average |
| Wazir | 5.61 | Average |
| Mastizaade | 5.59 | Average |
| Jai Gangaajal | 5.50 | Average |
| Akira | 5.15 | Average |
| Sanam Re | 5.04 | Good |
| Neerja | 4.70 | Good |
| X Men Apocalypse | 4.51 | Average |
| Pink | 4.32 | Average |
| Kahaani 2 | 4.25 | Average |
| Sarbjit | 3.69 | Poor |
| Fitoor | 3.61 | Disastrous |
| TE3N | 2.61 | Poor |
| Freaky Ali | 2.55 | Average |
| 1920 London | 2.50 | Poor |
| Happy Bhaag Jayegi | 2.32 | Poor |
| Saala Khadoos | 2.19 | Poor |
| Mirzya | 2.10 | Disastrous |
| Rock On 2 | 2.02 | Disastrous |
| Teraa Surroor | 1.79 | Poor |
| Banjo | 1.72 | Poor |
| Sanam Teri Kasam | 1.25 | Poor |
| Love Games | 1.03 | Poor |
| Tum Bin 2 | 0.85 | Poor |
| Waiting | 0.27 | Poor |
@Deadpool They know the reality that ajay doesn’t stands anywhere to akshay but singhm opening gives them confidence to argue with superstar Akshay fans ? just delete singhm returns to ajay career ?? Saif = Ajay = Emran hashmi overall career vise .
Rajeev masand recently to Akshay : Only you r doing maximum movies in a year..salman, shahrukh, amir does only 1 …
Why these media don’t count ajay into akshay nd khans league? Because media is very well aware of aukat of every actor.
Never seen anybody asking any question related to this low level star to Akshay . media & interviewers compares akshay only with 3 khan’s only.
From where these Chu ajay gets such confidence to even compare him with akshay ?
@Dead fool, you are right Drishyam failed to cross 10 cr opening because of the genre and bad release period. But you know how much opening drishyam would have taken if your gobar starred in it? Think about it.
@sunny alkoholik:
Opening day:
Akki- 21cr.
Ajay- 32cr.
Ajay>>>Akki.
Lifetime:
Akki- 134cr.
Ajay- 141cr.
Ajay>>>Akki.
In any day any situation Ajay is muchuch bigger star than Akki!
@rohan:
Defending I am but are getting tired… LOL.
No we never thought about 50cr. Because we knew Bhai & YRF not gonna use laal mirch calculator to count the collections…hahaha.
@chu 1
Sp26 clashed with abcd(with massive buzz and hit songs , India’s first out and out dance movie)
Still did 6cr+ on just 1500 screens
Baby with almost nil buzz did 9+ I remind you almost nil buzz …!!!
But Ajay’s drishyam released on 2200+ screens (solo release) did just 5+ …!!!!!
Bad release date huh then what about Baahubali which released a week before bb … !!! Was that a great release date for you..???
If drishyam had starred akki it would have definitely collected 100+ ….!!!!
@sunny these Ajay Fan’s are lucky enough to compare their star with our’s ..
There are 4-5 Akki films which disappointed big time in this decade ….!!!!
Had those movies worked big then these Chu Ajay fans wouldn’t even dare to compare their star with our’s…!!!!
This year final ranking
Salman
Aamir
Hrithik
Others can fight for the remaining available spots. Too much fun
2017
Hrithik
Salman
Srk
It is from republican day we will know whether Hrithik will top 2017 or finish 2nd. He can’t finish below 2nd. Bookmark this page.
@makki flopstar. So because I say the truth about drshm you believe only Ajay fans know it.? Even indicin admitted the reason for Drishm average collection. It was in between Bahubal Bb and brothers which were bigger and massy movies. Our regional megastar Mohanlal did it Kamal sir did it so it was just a remake and a unkind genre when massey films was taking stage. Ajay sir has reached a stage in which all fans can write about him cause he is a fantastic actor so not necessarily Ajay fans should do the talking. Most Hrithik fans are admirers of Shah rukh and Ajay but Aamir to some extent. Ask any of your friends who is Superstar Hrithik fans. You have been defeated you are defeated look at your comments?
@Chu Deadfool, drishyam released 2 weeks after BB and baahubali. Still it did 78 cr. If gobar was in drishyam then drishyam wouldn’t heven crossed even 30 Cr life time. Remember joker collections? That’s his aukaat. If Ajay was in special 26, then it would have crossed 80-90 cr easily with 1500 screens. If Ajay was in baby and airlift then both would have easily crossed 140 cr. Wait for shivaay and see how he will make your joker look like a gobar.