Box office: Sooryavanshi brings home Akshay Kumar’s third highest first-week collection

Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi (2021) has seen a gradual fall in box-office collections after the first weekend, which is normal. After earning Rs9.50 crore nett on Wednesday, the Akshay Kumar-starrer made Rs7.75 crore nett yesterday, the last day of its first week in theatres, according to trade website BoxOfficeIndia.com. The drop may also be the result of the Diwali holidays coming to an end.

Overall, Sooryavanshi has done very well in the first week with a grand total of Rs120 crore nett so far. The film achieved this number despite only 50% occupancy being allowed in theatres in Maharashtra, the state that generates the maximum revenue for Hindi cinema.

With this, Sooryavanshi has become Akshay Kumar’s third-highest first-week grosser after Housefull 4 (2019) and Good Newwz (2019), which had made Rs135.86 crore and Rs124.94 crore, respectively.

The film’s first-week collection is also higher than that of the last big hit in Hindi cinema, Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (2020). The Ajay Devgn-starrer had made Rs114.28 crore in the same period of seven days at a time when COVID-19 was yet to reach India.

According to trade sources, Sooryavanshi was made on a budget of Rs150 crore and the film’s performance over the second weekend, starting tomorrow, will determine whether it attains hit status.