Brahmastra Tops Worldwide Collections! Exclusive BO Report

Film
trade
expert

Girish
Wankhede
analyses
the
box
office
of
last
week’s
releases
and
films
that
have
continued
in
theatres
for
a
few
weeks,
in
an
exclusive
column
for

Filmibeat.

At
last,
the
jinx
is
broken,
especially
for
Bollywood.
With
Ranbir
Kapoor
and
Alia
Bhatt
starrer

Brahmastra
topping
the
box
office
charts
in
not
only
India
but
across
the
globe
with
astronomical
numbers,
the
joke
is
now
on
Bollywood
boycotters.

The
first
weekend
Indian
box
office
number
for

Brahmastra
was
superlative
and
it
eventually
ended
the
dry
spell,
the
opening
up
of
new
possibilities
and
the
evolution
of
the
contemporary
mindset.
This
ambitious
film
marked
the
beginning
of
the

Brahmastra
Trilogy,
with
the
second
installment

Brahmastra
2
aka
Brahmastra
–
Dev
slated
to
release
in
2025.

This
Indian
mythology
meets
Marvel
Comics
genre
is
novel
to
Indian
audiences
and
the
youngsters
have
lapped
it
up.
Older
audiences
laughed
at
the
young
lingo
of
the
protagonists
in
the
film
while
the
critics
sulked
at
the
dialogues.
But
the
film
has
worked.
It’s
totally
a
new
world
out
there
now
and
needs
a
celebration.

Brahmastra
India
and
Overseas
Box
Office
Collection
–
First
Week

Brahmastra
opened
on
Friday,
9
September
with
record-breaking
box
office
numbers
of
Rs
36.42
crore,
which
are
one
of
the
highest
numbers
for
any
non-holiday
release
in
India.
The
first
Saturday
followed
with
a
jump
of
15
per
cent,
making
it
Rs
42.41
crore,
and
Sunday
followed
with
a
bigger
number
of
Rs
45.66
crore.

The
first
weekend
collection
of

Brahmastra
stood
majestically
at
Rs
124.49
crore,
which
consolidated
its
position
as
a
legitimate
hit.
The
first
Monday
showed
a
usual
drop
in
collections
with
a
figure
of
Rs
16.50
crore,
and
the
first
Tuesday
had
a
further
drop
with
a
figure
of
Rs
13.25
crore.
The
five-day
total
of

Brahmastra
tallied
to
Rs
154.24
crore,
thus
indicating
a
magical
number
of
Rs
175
crore
for
Week
1.
With
this
respectable
number,
it
is
poised
to
generate
another
haul
in
its
second
weekend.

Brahmastra
was
released
in
India
in
5,019
screens
and
in
3,894
screens
in
the
overseas
market.
In
India,

Brahmastra
was
released
in
Hindi,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Kannada
and
Malayalam,
and
these
versions
made
approximately
Rs
17
crore
out
of
the
total
of
Rs
154.24
crore.

Brahmastra
did
extremely
well
in
the
overseas
market
and
topped
the
box
office
in
Australia,
Canada,
the
US
and
the
UAE.
It
generated
more
than
Rs
70
crore
from
the
overseas
market
and
that’s
phenomenal!

Brahmastra
registered
the
fifth
biggest
collection
in
the
overseas
market
for
an
Indian
film,
after

Padmavat,

Dhoom:3,

Sultan
and

Dilwale.

Captain
Box
Office
Report

Another
lacklustre
release
was
Tamil
action-drama

Captain,
featuring
Arya
and
Aishwarya
Lekshmi,
which
was
panned
by
critics
and
rejected
by
the
audiences
as
well.
Made
on
a
modest
budget
of
Rs
20
crore,
it
generated
Rs
5
crore
approximately
in
its
opening
5
days,
making
it
a
losing
proposition.

Captain
generated
Rs
1.8
crore
on
Thursday,
8
September,
and
went
to
collect
Rs
0.85
crore
on
Friday,
Rs
1.1
crore
on
Saturday,
Rs
0.96
crore
on
Sunday
and
Rs
0.49
crore
on
Monday.
It
made
Rs
5.2
crore
in
5
days,
which
is
far
below
the
expectations.
The
sudden
drop
on
the
second
day
is
owing
to
below-average
content
and
poor
word
of
mouth.

Oke
Oka
Jeevitham
Box
Office
Report

Oke
Oka
Jeevitham
is
a
Telugu
release,
which
was
shot
in
Tamil
also
and
released
simultaneously.
The
modern
science
fiction
drama
is
directed
by
Shree
Karthik
and
features
Sharwanand,
Amala
Akkineni,
Nassar
and
Ritu
Varma.
It
was
released
on
Friday,
9
September.
Its
Telugu
version
made
Rs
75
lakh
on
its
opening
day.
It
added
another
Rs
1.10
crore
on
Saturday
and
Rs
1.37
crore
on
Sunday.
The
film’s
BO
dropped
to
Rs
62
lakh
on
Monday
and
Rs
48
lakhs
on
Tuesday,
thus
generating
a
total
of
Rs
4.32
crore
only
in
5
days.

Pathonpatham
Noottandu
Box
Office
Report

Malayalam
action
period
drama

Pathonpatham
Noottandu
released
on
Thursday,
8
September
with
huge
fanfare.
Written
and
directed
by
Vinayan
and
featuring
Siju
Wilson,
Kayadu
Lohar,
Anoop
Menon
and
Sudev
Nair,
this
ambitious
film
was
scheduled
to
release
simultaneously
with
its
dubbed
versions
on
Hindi,
Tamil,
Telugu
and
Kannada,
but
it
could
not
meet
the
deadline
of
8
September
for
all
languages
and
was
released
later.
The
film’s
Malayalam
collection
of
Day
1
is
Rs
1.02
crore,
Day
2
–
Rs
1.15
crore,
Day
3
–
Rs
1.19
crore
and
Day
4
–
Rs
1.03
crore.

Pathonpatham
Noottandu
collections
dropped
on
Monday
to
Rs
42
lakh
and
to
Rs
40
lakh
on
Tuesday,
thus
making
Rs
5.12
crore
in
its
first
6
days.