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Aamir Khan's PK is doing overwhelming business at the Overseas Box Office. The movie has made a whopping business of 13.36 million USD {85 crores INR} in one week at the International arena.
The movie has entered Top 10 Highest / Grossing Bollywood Films In Overseas and thus evicted Shah Rukh Khan's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Also, beating Salman Khan’s Kick, Hrithik Roshan's Bang Bang and Don 2, this Rajkumar Hirani film has taken No. 7 position in the list.
PK collected approx 6 million USD at the North America box office and has touched 16 crores business at the UAE/GCC box office already. At the Australia box office, PK collected 2 million A$.

Meanwhile, check out other films in the Top 10 Highest Grossing Hindi Films In Overseas list right here.

The trade hints at 300 Cr. for PK, as the movie shows up impressive figures each passing day. Taking the second highest spot as the non holiday opener following Aamir Khan's Dhoom-3 and holding the Highest 1st Week Collections record, PK despite having shelved in few single screens, is going strong and has picked up excellently well with positive word of mouth and reviews by the critics.
As the holiday week kick started yesterday, here we bring to you the word from the trade experts.

N.R Pachisia [Producer and Distributor, Mumbai]: The business of PK is on the expected line. Finally the numbers have come in and the movie is already established. Commenting on has the business being affected by not having screened in few single screens, then I would say that it could have added the numbers, but it has not affected the collections largely. PK is a multiplex film, and I don't know why people don't agree, but the movie infact has picked up very well with the word of mouth and even the media has given thumbs up. And yesterday being a big holiday, it again made big numbers, and looking at the response it is getting at the Box/Office the movie is seen heading towards 200 Cr with a fast pace. Will the movie make 300 Crore, well, that can only be decided after next week, but, yes, the film is heading towards big numbers.

Tarun Tandon [M.D, Indra Films, Nizam and Andhra]: Yes, I definitely think the numbers are as per expectations and we are looking at the movie which is going to do 300 Crore. So, I think its performance is at par at what the expectations were and I think it might succeed the expectations also as we still have First January too as a Holiday. So with the number of holidays the movie is going to break all records. The opening day wasn't that big, but, then with the reviews and word of mouth, the movie has picked up over the weekend and Sunday was fabulous. We cannot say that the movie has disappointed us in any way. Looking at my territory there is no drop in the Nexus. The Nexus are rock steady. PK is a movie which has the potential to go beyond 300 Cr. lifetime collections. There is no drop, the way normal movies drop, good movies with good reviews even have a drop, but we are not seeing that kind of drop in PK.
Akshaye Rathi [Exhibitor / Mumbai): The conditions obviously are as expected or rather more awfully expected. The movie has sustained fabulously through the week. Yesterday being Christmas, the collections were huge and the movie is going to sustain fabulously in the winter vacation. And the way the film has sustained, 99.9% we are looking at PK as the biggest grosser ever. The movie's collections were hardly affected by not getting released in few single screens, it was almost negligible.

So, while the trade experts predict that PK will make a 300 Cr. business easily, what do you think?

PK has hit the roof. If the weekend saw wonderful momentum building for the film, weekdays showed the level of acceptance that the Aamir Khan starrer had fetched. The film continued to score heavily and with Christmas holiday on Thursday, the Rajkumar Hirani affair saw an escalation all over again. As a result, the film managed to gather astonishing footfalls with collections of 182.39 crores [nett] in its First Week itself.
The success has turned out to be even better for all involved, and there are reasons aplenty. First and foremost, Aamir has managed to break his own record of Dhoom-3 that was created last year for the highest collections ever gained in the first week run.
Secondly, Rajkumar Hirani has almost managed to collect the entire lifetime collections of 3 Idiots [202 crore]. Thirdly, producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra's confidence in the product and the promises that he made to the distributors have proven true as well. Last but not the least, Anushka Sharma is back in business with a biggie, and how.

With the kind of response that PK is gaining, it is now a given that this social/satirical affair would result as the biggest success of 2014, hence surpassing Salman Khan’s Kick {233 crore} and Shah Rukh Khan’s Happy New Year {203 crore}. Meanwhile, it would also go past the Chennai Express {227 crore}.
The next big target though is Dhoom 3 which had managed 284 crore. There are many more overs (read open days) ahead to score these runs {collections} and it is now a matter of whether the film manages to seize this opportunity and play consistently or run out of breath after some initial quick hitting!