Box Office: SRK’s Dilwale Beats All Salman Films For A 2015 Record!

Box Office: SRK’s Dilwale Beats All Salman Films For A 2015 Record!

Bollywood’s newest release ‘Dilwale’ starring Shah Rukh Khan has broken a vast record set by Salman Khan movies in 2015. The movie has become the highest opening movie of 2015 in abroad business by overtaking the previous record set by Salman starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’. Not just that, ‘Dilwale’ has also emerged as the largest Bollywood opening movie ever in the Gulf territory which is a enormous market for Indian cinema. The abyss performance of the film has too overtaken Hollywood giant let go Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Dilwale has allegedly raked in $8.5 million (Rs. 56.38 crores approx) in its opening weekend overseas breaking the record of Rs.53.69 crores approx set by Salman‘s‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan‘. The movie has thus earned the spot of uppermost opening film in overseas of 2015 just as the year is concerning to end. Well this is only possible with an SRK movie as the actor has enormous fan following globally thus attracting more viewers. ‘Dilwale’ is too keeping the registers ringing in Indian box office, leaving its rivalry ‘Bajirao Mastani’ behind.

In Gulf the movie set an all time record of $3.2 million (Rs. 21.22 crores approx) which is the largest number seen by some Bollywood movie released there. The performance in US & Canada has surpassed that of its competition ‘Bajirao Mastani’. where the film really had more screenings than its competition in these territories. ‘Bajirao Mastani’ had a sum of 304 screens while ‘Dilwale’had 268 theaters. in spite of the difference the movie is breaking all records as ‘Bajirao Mastani’collected merely $ 1.7 million (Rs. 11.27 crores approx) in US and Canada while ‘Dilwale’ collected Rs. 12.59 crores approx.