PK Grosses 400 Crores; Emerges Bollywood’s 3rd Highest Worldwide Earner

Aamir Khan’s PK is giving a smashing performance. The film has collected 214 crores at the domestic box office in nine days itself. In the international circuits too, PK is going strong. The film has now grossed over 400 crores worldwide (including 93 crores from Overseas) which is huge.

Interestingly, PK has achieved a huge feat of beating the worldwide collections of 3 Idiots which stood with a collection of 395 crores. The pace with which PK has achieved this huge collection is unbelievable.

PK has now become the third highest worldwide grosser after Dhoom 3 and Chennai Express. The film is the highest worldwide grosser of the year.

PK Collects Over 200 Crore In 9 Days; Becomes 5th Highest Grosser Of All Time

PK has now entered the 200 crore club after completing its 9 successful days at the Domestic Box Office. The film collected 17 crores approx on its 2nd Saturday and now stands with a total collection of approximately 214 crores nett at the domestic box office.

The film has held up well over the second weekend too. The Aamir Khan film has been performing extremely well since its opening. This is Aamir’s third film to enter the 200 crore club. With excellent responses in the urban circuit, the film is going strong thanks to the Christmas vacations.

PK has now beaten Ek Tha Tiger, 3 Idiots, Happy New Year‘s Lifetime collections and thus becomes 5th Highest Grosser of All Time. Looking at the current pace, this Rajkumar Hirani directorial will easily beat Chennai Express and Kick‘s lifetime business soon. 

Farhan Akhtar Explains Why The ‘No Smoking’ Disclaimers In Films Is Disturbing

Farhan Akhtar strongly feels against running ‘No Smoking’ disclaimers in the midst of a film.

He is keen to reach out to the concerned authorities about the No smoking disclaimers in films. The ace actor truly feels it takes away from the viewing experience and is more of a distraction than effective messaging.

Says Farhan, “Firstly, we all are in agreement that smoking is injurious to health but ask yourself, is running a disclaimer as a sub-title during a scene the solution to the problem? The answer is no.”

Farhan shares, “The only thing it successfully manages to do is take the viewer out of his or her film viewing experience. It is like putting the cinema hall lights on during a scene and expecting not to disturb the audience’s attention or cause any lapse in concentration to the story. Is that possible? The answer again is No.”

Farhan has been talking to his team and fellow filmmakers about the issue. He wants to take a concrete step and ensure a solution is worked out.

He further adds, “The film industry had willingly accepted and proudly supported the Anti-Smoking Public Awareness film by attaching it to the print and digital file, to be run before the start of the feature itself. But to have disclaimers in the film itself is stepping on the film makers toes and demanding a compromise of the creator’s integrity.”

Farhan feels running a disclaimer is more of a creative hindrance and takes away from the essence of the scene

He concludes by saying, “We have a rating system that decides viewer age limits for films and I’m sure that smoking can be dealt with through the certification system.”

“PK Has Surpassed Expectations. But Will It Make 300 Crore?” – Trade Experts

The trade hints at 300 Crore for PK, as the movie shows up impressive figures each passing day. Taking the second highest spot as the non-holiday opener following Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3 and holding the Highest 1st Week Collections record, PK despite having shelved in few single screens, is going strong and has picked up excellently well with positive word of mouth and reviews by the critics.

N.R Pachisia (Producer and Distributor, Mumbai): 

The business of PK is on the expected line. Finally the numbers have come in and the movie is already established. Commenting on has the business being affected by not having screened in few single screens, then I would say that it could have added the numbers, but it has not affected the collections largely. PK is a multiplex film, and I don’t know why people don’t agree, but the movie infact has picked up very well with the word of mouth and even the media has given thumbs up. And yesterday being a big holiday, it again made big numbers, and looking at the response it is getting at the Box- Office the movie is seen heading towards 200 Cr with a fast pace. Will the movie make 300 Cr, well, that can only be decided after next week, but, yes, the film is heading towards big numbers.

Tarun Tandon (M.D, Indra Films, Nizam and Andhra):

Yes, I definitely think the numbers are as per expectations and we are looking at the movie which is going to do 300 Cr. So, I think its performance is at par at what the expectations were and I think it might succeed the expectations also as we still have 1st January too as a Holiday. So with the number of holidays the movie is going to break all records. The opening day wasn’t that big, but, then with the reviews and word of mouth, the movie has picked up over the weekend and Sunday was fabulous. We cannot say that the movie has disappointed us in any way. Looking at my territory there is no drop in the Nexus. The Nexus are rock steady. PK is a movie which has the potential to go beyond 300 crore lifetime collections. There is no drop, the way normal movies drop, good movies with good reviews even have a drop, but we are not seeing that kind of drop in PK.

Akshaye Rathi (Exhibitor, Mumbai):

The conditions obviously are as expected or rather more awfully expected. The movie has sustained fabulously through the week. Yesterday being Christmas, the collections were huge and the movie is going to sustain fabulously in the winter vacation. And the way the film has sustained, 99.9% we are looking at PK as the biggest grosser ever. The movie’s collections were hardly affected by not getting released in few single screens, it was almost negligible.

So, while the trade experts predict that PK will make a 300 Crore business easily, what do you think?

PK Scores Heavily On Christmas; Beats Dhoom 3′s Record | 1st Week Box Office Collections

PK has hit the roof. If the weekend saw wonderful momentum building for the film, weekdays showed the level of acceptance that the Aamir Khan starrer had fetched. The film continued to score heavily and with Christmas holiday on Thursday, the Rajkumar Hirani affair saw an escalation all over again. As a result, the film managed to gather astonishing footfalls with collections of 182.39 crores (nett) in its 1st Week itself.

The success has turned out to be even better for all involved, and there are reasons aplenty. First and foremost, Aamir has managed to break his own record of Dhoom 3 that was created last year for the highest collections ever gained in the first week run.

Secondly, Rajkumar Hirani has almost managed to collect the entire lifetime collections of 3 Idiots (202 crore). Thirdly, producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s confidence in the product and the promises that he made to the distributors have proven true as well. Last but not the least, Anushka Sharma is back in business with a biggie, and how.

With the kind of response that PK is gaining, it is now a given that this social-satirical affair would result as the biggest success of 2014, hence surpassing Salman Khan’s Kick [233 crore] and Shah Rukh Khan’s Happy New Year [203 crore]. Meanwhile, it would also go past the Chennai Express [227 crore].

The next big target though is Dhoom 3 which had managed 284 crore. There are many more overs (read open days) ahead to score these runs (collections) and it is now a matter of whether the film manages to seize this opportunity and play consistently or run out of breath after some initial quick hitting!

Will We Never See ‘Saif-Parineeti Jodi’ On Silver Screen?

Actress Parineeti Chopra has expressed her desire to work with Saif Ali Khan in various platforms however, the films announced with both of them together got shelved for reasons best known to them.

Earlier, there were reports that Abbas Mustan was supposed to direct Saif Ali Khan and Parineeti Chopra in a film however that film got shelved. Abbas Mustan’s desi adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s adventure novel ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ didn’t go on floors due to scripting issues.

 Post that Saif’s business partner Dinesh Vijan was planning to turn director with Saif and Parineeti in lead which was again put on hold for reasons best known to them.

However a source revealed, “Dinesh was keen to work with Saif and Parineeti in his debut directorial venture however, the film has been put on hold as few changes in the script needs to be done. But, still there is no clarity when the film will go on floors.”

PK All Set To Evict SRK’s KANK & Enter Top 10 Highest Overseas Grossers

PK has had a smashing start at the domestic box office. The film in merely six days has made a collection of 154.84 crores in India, which is commendable. Since it is a Aamir Khan film, naturally there were high expectations from it and also it was one of the most-awaited films of the year. Releasing it in the opportune time of Christmas, the film will certainly fare well considering it is a vacation time

In the overseas too, the film has started with a bang. It has now collected 10.5 million US Dollars so far. The film will soon be entering the Top 10 Highest Grossers In Overseas. PK’s Overseas collections are slightly behind Shah Rukh Khan’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and will soon evict the movie from the list.

PK will mark Aamir’s third film to make it to the Highest Overseas Grossers’ list after Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots which hold the Top positions.