‘Rustom’ the Akshay Kumar starrer has won the hearts of audience since the day it was released. Viewers and critics both gave favorable reviews and the collections that it garnered were a proof of it. Although it clashed with ‘Mohenjo Daro’, the Hrithik Roshan starrer, Rustom became the winner and broke several records. It didn’t break one more two but 10 records, want to have a look? Here they are…
3rd highest grosser of this year!
‘Rustom’ collected around 110 crores in total, thereby becoming the 3rd highest grosser of this year, the first two being ‘Sultan’ and ‘Airlift’ respectively. This is awesome, isn’t it?
Fastest film of Akshay to enter the 100 crore club!
This is the 3rd movie of Akshay Kumar to enter the 100 crore club and also the fastest one! Yes, while ‘Housefull 3’ took 13 days and ‘Airlift’ took 10 days, ‘Rustom’ took just 9 days.
Highest first week collections for Akshay Kumar movie!
At the end of 1st week, the movie garnered 90 crores. This amount is the highest for any Akshay Kumar movie.
With Rustom, Akshay became the highest earning actor of 2016!
This year, 3 movies of Akshay Kumar were released, ‘Housefull 3’, ‘Airlift’ and ‘Rustom’. The total collections of all these 3 movies were 345.92 crores. No actor has earned so much this year. Even Salman Khan’s ‘Sultan’ had a total of 337 crores.
Talking about UAE market, this is the 2nd highest opener of Akshay!
For Indian flicks, the UAE market holds a lot of importance. Often, the movies are released there a day before being released in India. ‘Rustom’ was the 2nd highest opener in the UAE market after ‘Airlift’.
Highest 1st Monday collections !
‘Rustom’ had the highest 1st Monday collections .Yes, on first Monday, the movie’s collections were 17.81 crores, which even surpassed ‘Sultan’, the collections of which were 15.54 crores.
2nd highest opening weekend collections of 2016!
Sultan was the 1st movie to earn highest opening weekend collections this year. ‘Rustom’ is 2nd on the list as it has collected 50.42 crores, leaving behind Airlift, FAN and Housefull 3.
Highest opening weekend collection for Akshay’s movie in 2016!
With 50.42 crores, ‘Rustom’ stands first in the list of highest opening weekend collections of his own movies that were released this year. Yes , it has surpassed ‘Airlift’ which had opening weekend collections of 44.20 crores.
5th highest opening collections for any Akshay Kumar movie
On the opening day, ‘Rustom’ earned 14.11 crores. However the other 4 movies of Akshay Kumar to enjoy highest opening collections are Singh Is Bliing with 20.67 crores, Housefull 3 with 15.21 crores, Brothers with 15.20 crores and Rowdy Rathore with 15.10 crores.
Beat Airlift in terms of overseas business!
Airlift earned 18.80 crores from overseas business on the 1st day but ‘Rustom’ surpassed it by earning around 26 crores.
So isn’t it amazing that ‘Rustom’ has broken so many records? Do let us know your comments in our comments section below.