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Raja Shivaji Box Office Collections: Riteish Deshmukh bags biggest opening day ever for a Marathi film
The highest-grossing Marathi film is Sairat at around Rs. 100 crore. Raja Shivaji appears highly favoured to top it.
Raja Shivaji collected Rs. 13.50 crore approx on its opening day in India. This includes Rs. 9.50 crore approx from the original Marathi version and Rs. 4 crore (Rs. 3.25 crore nett) approx from the Hindi version. The home state of Maharashtra accounted for Rs. 10.50 crore approx, driven largely by the Marathi version, though the Hindi version also chipped in well, benefiting from spillover demand wherever the original version was running to capacity.
Raja Shivaji is comfortably the biggest opening ever for a Marathi film, the previous best for the industry being Rs. 3.60 crore of Sairat in 2016. This was always on the cards, as the film was not just targeting Marathi industry benchmarks but also aiming for the biggest openings in Maharashtra overall.
The biggest opening day in Maharashtra belongs to Dhurandhar: The Revenge at around Rs. 22 crore, the next best being Pushpa 2 and KGF 2 at around Rs. 18 crore. While Dhurandhar: The Revenge was always out of reach because that film had an insane capacity, due to absurdly high ticket prices, Pushpa 2 and KGF 2 could have been targeted. However not being a solo release and comparitively lower ticket prices, kept it short.
The overall state box office yesterday was over Rs. 15 crore, closer to those two. The shortfall was mainly in Mumbai city, with the rest of the state being on par with Pushpa 2 and KGF 2 opening day. Marathi films perform stronger in the interiors of Maharashtra, while since Mumbai has a significant Hindi and Gujarati speaking population, it dilutes the dominance of Marathi films.
Films like Chhaava and Tanhaji exhibited strong trends over time, and Marathi films in general tend to show long legs. Chhaava manged nearly 20x its first day while Tanhaji was closer to 25x. Chhaava is currently the highest-grossing film in the state with over Rs. 300 crore gross box office collections. Raja Shivaji has the potential to replicate this trend; the coming weeks will be interesting to follow. The highest-grossing Marathi film is Sairat at around Rs. 100 crore. Raja Shivaji appears highly favoured to top it.
Disclaimer: The box office figures are compiled from various sources and our research. The figures can be approximate, and Pinkvilla does not make any claims about the authenticity of the data. However, they are adequately indicative of the box-office performance of the films in question.
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