Rohit Shetty’s Shouryavanshi made (approximately) Rs. 28-31 crore on Sunday for a total of about Rs. 79 crore over the weekend. This has turned out phenomenally well in mass markets; an area where most Indian films typically struggle at opening weekends due to the sheer lack of quality content and much-needed A-list stars.
Regardless, it managed pretty good business over Friday and Saturday, both due to its franchise value which attracts viewers of all ages as well as superstars Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh; however, people really came out this weekend by going crazy over every inch of screen space dedicated to eye candy leaving no detail untouched! National cinemas also saw an upturn today thanks in large part to an exclusive mall show release – about 10% higher than expected after 7 pm yesterday (Saturday).
Sooryavanshi did well in Gujarat and Maharashtra, as well as Delhi/UP, Punjab and Nizam- the former being its most successful market while the latter was Akshay Kumar’s core circuit. Bihar and Rajasthan also contributed to Sooryavanshi but they had different tendencies – while one focused on making money by any means necessary, the other didn’t care about profit so long as people liked it.
Nevertheless, both of these areas were essential markets for this commercial film with its reach only widening day after day. All eyes were on how much money Sooryavanshi collected at Monday (Monday collected in the range of Rs 13 crore) because if more than 130 crores passed through its hands in just seven days – than it could be deemed a success story.
