Box Office: Sooryavanshi Enters The Top 10 Highest-Earning Akshay Kumar's Film

Mumbai, November 13 - With no competition at the box office, Akshay Kumar-starrer "Sooryavanshi" makes full use of the advantage and continues to be strong through weekdays. After finishing the opening week on high with ₹ 120 crores, Rohit Shetty-directed netted another ₹ 6.83 crores on the second Friday (November 12), helping it reach India's net total of ₹ 127.49 crores in the first 8 days (Fri-Fri).

The second Friday total of "Sooryavanshi" ensured that it entered the top 10 highest-grossing films for Akshay Kumar. The cop-drama jointly stands at number 9 with Rustom, which had netted ₹ 127.49 crores in its lifetime domestic box office run. Today, on the second Saturday, "Sooryavanshi" will leapfrog "Airlift" (128.10 cr.), "Rowdy Rathore" (133.25 cr.), and "Toilet Ek Prem Katha" (134.42 cr.) to become the 6th highest-grossing film for Akshay Kumar.



"Housefull 4" remains Akshay's top netted film with ₹ 210.30 crores, followed by "Good Newwz" (205.09 cr.), and "Mission Mangal" (203.08 cr.). By the end of the second week, "Sooryavanshi" will cross "Kesari's" lifetime total of ₹ 155.70 crores and by the end of its entire domestic box office run, it will challenge "2.0's" Hindi box office collection ₹ 190.48 cr.

Currently, "Sooryavanshi" is the 56th highest-netted Hindi movie of all time, and 3rd highest in Rohit Shetty's cop universe after "Simmba" (240.3 cr.) and "Singham Returns" (140.6 cr.). In all likely hood, "Sooryavanshi" will finish between the range of 20 and 30 highest-earning Bollywood films of all time.

Produced by Reliance Entertainment and Rohit Shetty Picturez in association with Dharma Productions and Cape of Good Films, "Sooryavanshi" released over 4500+ screens worldwide, including 1300 screens overseas. It also stars Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh in the extended cameos as Singham and Simmba, and Katrina Kaif in the female lead.

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