It was greater than a decade again when Ek Tha Tiger launched in theatres. At that time limit, means earlier than Pathaan, there was no spy universe within the making. In truth there was no announcement round Tiger being a franchise within the making both. It was simply meant to be a cool spy motion thriller with a love story in there and Kabir Khan deftly executed the Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer. The movie took an enormous opening on Eid after which went on to cross the 50 crores mark within the first three days; an excellent quantity again in 2012.
Circa 2023 and one thing far greater has come out of the concept was born greater than a decade in the past. Tiger Zinda Hai occurred, this was adopted by War and now with Pathaan, the spy universe has certainly began taking form. The sort of soar in numbers that has been seen on the field workplace is way greater and higher than what one may have imagined. While Ek Tha Tiger had netted 60.42 crores in its first three days, Pathaan has surpassed that quantity by greater than 100 crores, what with 166.75 crores coming in.
Here is trying on the largest weekends (or first three days numbers) of YRF’s largest openers:
Pathaan – 166.75 crores
Tiger Zinda Hai – 114.93 crores
Dhoom: 3 – 107.61 crores
Sultan – 105.53 crores
Thugs of Hindostan – 101.75 crores
War – 100.15 crores
Ek Tha Tiger – 60.42 crores
Fan – 52.35 crores
Jab Tak Hai Jaan – 49.22 crores
Gunday – 43.41 crores
What Siddharth Anand directed Pathaan has achieved it to provide a really strong platform to the spy universe envisaged by Aditya Chopra. To consider it, even Pathaan featured solely Pathaan and Tiger, and Kabir is but to make an entry right here. Now with Tiger 3 arising subsequent, one simply hopes that Hrithik Roshan does make an look too. Once that occurs, it might be a rock strong platform set for the universe to start out taking mammoth proportions in years to return.
Note: Box workplace numbers are primarily based on estimates and varied sources. Numbers haven’t been independently verified by Koimoi.
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