Agneepath joins Rs. 100 crore club – excitement shoots to heights

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Agneepath

Mumbai: It was being expected and everybody was sure that Agneepath will join in the bandwagon of Rs. 100 crores club. Well, it has done it with oomph and conviction. Karan Johar is a real happy man. The producer of the film Johar is flaunting his excitement everywhere.
Karan Malhotra, the director of the movie and the entire starcast – all are super excited after the movie was announced that it crosses the Rs. 100 crores (nett) business. The film also made record when it broke the opening day record with the collections of Rs. 25 crores beating the previous record of Salman Khan starrer Bodyguard that made Rs. 21 crores on the opening day at the box office.
As per the reports, the movie made the collections of Rs. 91.05 crores by the end of the fisrt weekend. The movie collected the amount of Rs. 15.25 crores (nett) in its second weekend and the total reached to Rs. 106.3 crores (nett). The movie was declared ‘Superhit’. Agneepath has also been on way to make bigger collections in overseas. The opening weekend in international circuit made £ 3,46,460 (Rs. 2.70 crores) and the figure was collected from 52 screens.
The entire starcast including the producer and director came on twitter to show their excitement to the fans. Karan Johar thanked all of the moviegoers to make the film a big success. Karan Malhotra tweeted that all at Dharma Productions got overjoyed with the response. Hrithik Roshan was looking lively with happiness and he continued saying ‘thank you’. Sanjay Dutt tweeted that he was overwhelmed after learning about 100 crores (nett) business.


The movies which have crossed the Rs. 100 crores (nett) business include Agneepath (at top), Don 2, Salman Khan’s Bodyguard, Aamir’s 3 Idiots, Ra.One (SRK), Dabangg, Ready, Ghajini, Rhit Shetty’s Golmaal 3 and Ajay’s Singham.

Record opening for ‘Agneepath’, earns Rs 25 crore

The magic of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan seems to have worked once again. Karan Johar’s “Agneepath” has had a record opening day collection minting Rs.25 crore on the first day and surpassing the collections of recent blockbusters like “Bodyguard” and “RA.One”.While Salman Khan’s “Bodyguard” earned Rs.22 crore, superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s mega-budget “RA.One” made Rs.18 crore on the opening day. But the Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt-starrer remake of the 1990 film of the same name, which released Thursday, has gone beyond.Hrithik, who stepped into the shoes of megastar Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay, is excited that his hard work has paid off.“WOW!!!! THANK u THANK u THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Agneepath 1st day – 25cr!!!! My damaged bodyparts suddenly feel ALIVE, I feel like I can FLY now!!! Thank u people, I have the fuel now to make KRRISH EXPLODE!!!!” Hrithik wrote on his Twitter page.Sanjay Dutt and the film’s lead actress Priyanka Chopra, are equally delighted with the positive response, and have thanked fans for the amazing response to the film.“‘Agneepath’ has redefined the power of Indian box office for all of us. It’s heartening to see the strength of the Indian cinema audiences growing like this. We all were very confident of the film but for this kind of success and unprecedented number that it has posted on day one we must thank our audience,” said Priyanka.Sanjay took to Twitter after a year, to share his sentiments about the appreciation towards the movie, and his role as the villain, Kancha Cheena.“I am overwhelmed with the response and support of everyone. Thank you for loving me so much,” he wrote.

Since “Agneepath” was a Republic Day release, the theatres witnessed 90-95 percent occupancy.

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Arjun Rampal: It was mind blowing. It’s a superb film. Go and watch “Agneepath.” You guys are going to be blown away.

Zayed Khan: All the performances are fabulous. Finally, superb kind of movies are back. It’s amazing. Hrithik, Sanjay, Priyanka, everybody was outstanding.

Arbaaz Khan: I think the director has done a fantastic job and it’s a very good remake of the earlier “Agneepath”. Sanjay’s performance is fantastic, Hrithik is looking very good and he has acted very well as well. I think the star of the film is the director.

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