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Pathaan box office collection day 1: Shah Rukh Khan delivers Bollywood’s biggest opening day with Rs 57 crore, film will join Rs 100 cr club on Republic Day

Pathaan box office collection day 1: Shah Rukh Khan’s big-budget comeback delivered the big bucks on opening day. With today being a holiday on account of Republic Day, Pathaan will comfortably enter Rs 100 crore club.

Amid fan frenzy of the kind that the Hindi film industry had not witnessed in a very long time, Shah Rukh Khan‘s Pathaan’s box office performance has been better than expected on opening day, and that too without the help of traditional marketing tools. Trade analyst Komal Nahta reported that the film has made Rs 57 crore in India on day one, of which Rs 55 crore is from the Hindi version and the remaining Rs 2 crore from the dubbed Tamil and Telugu versions.

The number would surely have been higher, Box Office India says, if the film was released on a holiday, like Republic Day today. But despite this, Pathaan is now the biggest-ever Hindi debut of all time, overtaking Hrithik Roshan-starrer War (Rs 53.3 crore), Aamir Khan’s Thugs of Hindostan (Rs 52 crore) and the Hindi dub version of the Kannada film KGF: Chapter 2 (Rs 53.9 crore). Pathaan’s Rs 57 crore debut is also higher than the Rs 53 crore that Avengers: Endgame made on its opening day in India, in multiple languages.