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Bahubali - The Conclusion, which was released globally in over 9,000 screens on April 28, continues to set the cash registers ringing.
The film reportedly crossed the ₹350-crore mark in the first three days, shattering the records set by Salman Khan and Aamir Khan films.
Taran Adarsh, a film business analyst, pegged the first three days collections of the Hindi version of the film at ₹128 crore against Salman-starrer Sultan’s ₹105 crore and Aamir Khan’s Dangal (₹107 crore).
He said the film’s collections soared from ₹41 crore last Friday to ₹46.50 crore on Sunday.
The Telugu version too, set a record with a day one collection of ₹57-60 crore.
The film created records of sorts in the overseas market too, with the analysts claiming weekend collections to the tune of ₹67 crore for the Hindi version.
The Telugu version, which is being watched by non-Telugus too, earned a similar amount.
The film had the biggest openings for any Indian film in the country and abroad.
The film had over 45,000 shows on each day over the weekend. With the film earning super hit talk, audience continue to book tickets online and at the theatre counters.
Online ticketing company BookMyShow alone contributed over ₹120 crore to the movie’s opening weekend collections in India. “We sold over 6.2 million tickets. Bahubali 2 also became the first film on BookMyShow to generate more than ₹100 crore business in a single weekend.
BookMyShow had previously crossed the ₹100-crore mark for Dangal over a span of four weeks since its release,” said Ashish Saksena, Chief Operating Officer (Cinemas) of BookMyShow.
He said the firm sold over one lakh tickets for the film in just 60 minutes or over 27 tickets a second during the weekend.
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