‘Kalki’ earned 191 crores on opening day: KGF-2 and Adipurush’s record broken, made a record collection of 95 crores on the first day in the country
Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ has earned Rs 191.5 crore at the global box office on the first day. With this, it has become the biggest opening film of this year. The film earned Rs 95 crore across the country. In India, this film collected Rs 95 crore on the opening day. Talking about all the languages, it collected 64.5 crores in Telugu, 24 crores in Hindi, 4 crores in Tamil, 2.2 crores in Malayalam and 30 lakhs in Kannada. It became the third highest grossing film on the opening day. With this, this film has become the third highest grossing film worldwide on the opening day, leaving behind films like ‘Pathan’, ‘Adipurush’ and ‘KGF 2’. Only two films ‘RRR’ and ‘Bahubali 2’ are ahead of it. Prabhas also has a unique record ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ is Prabhas’ fourth film in the list of highest-grossing Indian films on opening day. This list already includes Prabhas’ films like ‘Bahubali 2’, ‘Saaho’ and ‘Adipurush’. Films with the highest collections in India on opening day Tremendous earnings even after non-holiday and mid-week release The overall Telugu occupancy of this film was 85.15% on the opening day. Kalki has earned such a tremendous amount despite being released on a non-holiday, mid-week and on the day of India’s World Cup semi-final match. The budget of this film is 600 crores The budget of ‘Kalki 2898 AD’, directed by Nag Ashwin, is said to be around 600 crores. The film has received positive word of mouth publicity on the first day. Amitabh Bachchan’s acting has been appreciated the most. He is seen in the role of Ashwatthama in this film.