Box Office Collections: Happy New Year

Happy New Year released yesterday to mixed reviews. But the occupancy of the movie in the theater never went below 90-95% the whole day.Result? It has decimated Dhoom 3’s record. It has decimated Kick’s record.Collections for the first day? 44.97 Crores!

Dhoom 3’s first day collections were 31.86 crores  while Kick had a collection of about 26 crores on opening day. So Happy New Year has become the first Bollywood movie to cross the 40 Crore mark on its first day!

The Diwali holiday release has definitely worked! This is unprecedented.

Here’s the previous biggest openings on first day till now:

1.  Dhoom 3 – 31.86 Crores

2. Ek Tha Tiger: 30.5 Crores

3. Chennai Express – 30.45 Crores

4. Singham Returns: 30.4 Crores

5. Bang Bang – 26.5 Crores

6. Kick – 26 Crores

7. Agneepath – 22 Crores

44.97 Crores on a single day is a huge figure!

We congratulate Mr. Shahrukh for the amazing accomplishment! And we hope Happy New Year breaks even more Bollywood records!

Comment and let us know how much you think its lifetime collections is going to be!

Do check our review of the film (Happy New Year Review)