Rajinikanth’s ‘Jailer,’ Sunny Deol’s ‘Gadar 2,’ Chiranjeevi’s ‘Bhola Shankar,’ Akshay Kumar’s ‘OMG 2’ Create Indian Box Office History
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The combined performances of Rajinikanth’s “Jailer,” Sunny Deol’s “Gadar 2,” Akshay Kumar’s “OMG 2” and Chiranjeevi’s “Bhola Shankar” have set a new all-time theatrical gross box office record for the Indian cinema industry.
Numbers released by the Multiplex Association of India and the Producers Guild of India reveal that the Aug. 11-13 weekend was the busiest weekend post re-opening after pandemic shut downs with 21 million admissions, which is also the highest combined admissions record in the last 10 years.
The weekend gross box office of INR3.9 billion ($47 million) is the highest in the history of Indian cinema. Headlined by superstar Rajinikanth, “Jailer,” directed by Nelson, follows a jailer who comes out of retirement to save his family from gangsters.
The Tamil-language film produced by Sun Pictures released Aug. 10 and has grossed $36.5 million worldwide in four days. Led by Sunny Deol and directed by Anil Sharma, Zee Studios’ Hindi-language “Gadar 2,” a sequel to 2001 partition era saga “Gadar,” is set in 1971 and picks up the action some 16 years later.
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