Pathaan Third Day/First Friday Early Estimates; Extraordinary Hold

Mumbai, January 27 - Pathaan is simply ripping apart the box office on the third day of its run. The first two days saw record single-day collections but those were helped by the craze and a holiday on the second day, but the extraordinary hold today confirms that the film is a blockbuster.

The early estimate suggests the movie is heading towards 34-35 crores net on Friday. The drop from yesterday will be around 50% depending on the final numbers. Today is a crucial day for Pathaan as it was a working day but the content and star power of the film defeated that. These are early estimates figures and the final collections could vary but even if it comes slightly lower than 35 crores it will be an outstanding hold.



The 35cr Friday collections will take its entire collections to around 162cr which is a new record for a three-day weekend film and that too by a big margin. The previous three-day weekend record holder was KGF2 at around 140cr while for the Hindi film industry, it was Sanju at around 120cr net and Pathaan obliterated these records.

Pathaan will see a big jump tomorrow and the film might cross 200cr collections by the end of the day. The five-day extended weekend numbers will be in the range of 250cr give or take 5cr. The first Monday collections will determine whether the film will cross 400cr collections or not. At the moment that magical 400cr looks well within the range the way, the film is putting the numbers.

Shah Rukh Khan is back at the box office who had a series of flops and underperformers though his stardom was unquestioned you always need numbers on your side and Pathaan did that for Shah Rukh Khan. Hopefully, these numbers will be repeated again with his next films.

Stay tuned...