Top Openers Post Pandemic, Akshay Kumar Rules

Mumbai, March 19, 2022: The pandemic has hit the Indian box office in March 2020 and since then the cinemas got shut. When cinemas got opened, films struggled for any sort of footfalls. But there have been few big event films that were released at the Hindi box office and seen impressive initials considering pandemic.

The biggest film is Sooryavanshi fronted by Akshay Kumar which was released on Diwali 2021, the biggest day of the year, and collected 26.29cr on its opening day. The conditions were not like today as there were restrictions in many circuits with no night shows when Sooryavanshi was released.



The second-highest opening day post-pandemic is also an Akshay Kumar starrer Bachchan Pandey which collected 13.25 Cr on the first day of its release. Here again, the potential opening has been hit by the wave called The Kashmir Files else the opening would have been more than 20.00 Cr.

Ranveer Singh starrer 83 which was released on Xmas eve collected 12.64 Cr on the first day and gets the third spot in the list. Alia Bhatt starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi went double-digit and put 10.50cr on its opening day.

The box office monster The Kashmir Files which is running riot has collected 3.55cr on its opening day but that does not matter for a film that is smashing all-time records. Akshay Kumar has two biggest openers post-pandemic but that is due to no other films of other major stars having been released.

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