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PK being Aamir Khan's Christmas release performed excellently at the box office. The film, post Day 8, has grossed 283 crores in India. The collections are significant considering the film has only completed a week.
Since it is a vacation season in the overseas circuit too, the film has grossed 85 crores-plus in the international circuit.
PK has received brilliant responses and the film is expected to have long run considering there are no other releases slated for the year. The film truly ended 2014 on a good note and while the first two weeks of December have been quite disappointing for the Bollywood business, it seems that PK has washed off the gloom and is ready to make and break some big records.
The film is currently the seventh highest worldwide grosser with 368 crores gross collections worldwide. The overseas collections are yet to come out, which will add up more in PK's worldwide total.

The year was filled with some big releases such as Kick, Happy New Year, Singham Returns and PK. While PK has scored 95.21 crores over its opening weekend, it has become the second highest opening weekend of the year. The Aamir Khan film in spite of being a non-holiday release performed extremely well.




Topping the list, of Top 5 Highest Opening Weekend Collections, is Shah Rukh Khan's Diwali release, Happy New Year which crossed the 100 crore mark over its opening weekend itself by collecting 108.86 crores over the first weekend. Coming third is Hrithik Roshan-Katrina Kaif starrer romantic-thriller Bang Bang. The film made a collection of 94.13 crores on its first weekend.
The highest grosser of the year, Salman Khan's Kick became the fourth highest opening weekend grosser with a collection of 83.50 crores.

Also Ajay Devgn starrer Singham Returns is the fifth highest opening weekend grosser with a collection of 77.55 crores. Interestingly, among the Top five highest weekend grossers of the year, PK is the only film to have been a non-holiday release and yet became the second highest first weekend grosser of the year.

The makers of PK have finally unwrapped the secret that they kept to them for so long. Talking about the collections that resulted off their ''keep it a secre'' strategy, Aamir Khan spills the beans on what was his prediction of the first day collections of PK and on what basis the trade people must have placed their predictions of the movie's opening day from 28 cr plus to 30 Crore.


In conversation with Koimoi, we asked that was it due to few single screens that shelved to screen the movie [over their disagreement on increasing the ticket prices], for movie not achieving the prediction figure placed by exhibitors, in spite of having more number of screens? To this Aamir said, ''The release of the film is as wide as any other film. Well, I think, the number of screens is not 5,200, but its on par with last 5 big films released. Because there are that many screens that a big film can open in, and I think most of the big films are covering all the screens possible to open in. If the trade expected the film to do first day at Rs. 30 crore, then I think that number was largely because of Dhoom3. You have to realise that apart from lot of big films releasing on a holiday period, like, 15th August, 26th January, Eid, Diwali; it gives a good start to the film and a good first day collections; Dhoom-3 released on a regular Friday and went on to collect highest first day including holiday films at Rs. 36.4 crore. So, PK, not being an action film, not being a franchise film, it has had a good number on the opening day. Actually I had in my head thought that the film will do around Rs.25 crore, I don’t know how the other trade people thought. But, even 25 is the highest number for a regular Friday. PK is not a single screen kind of film. Single screen audience love and prefer action more. So 26 crore plus is a good number and it has only climbed from 30. Plus on Saturday and 38.4 on Sunday, which is bigger than Dhoom-3's Sunday.''
The actor did not speak about the other side of movie not being released at few single screens and said that it’s the distributors call.

Mr. Perfectionist, was all tight lipped over his next project. Seems after PK, Aamir is quite liking the ''keep it secret'' strategy, well if the secret will give a surprise like PK then its worth the wait.

PK started off on an excellent note in the overseas circuit. The film after making a stupendous start at the domestic box office, it collected 2.3 Million USD 14.59 crores.
The film collected 4.04 crores in the UAE/GCC circuits. The Aamir Khan film made a business of 6.41 crores in the U.K and Ireland circuit.
In Australia, PK collected 3.51 crores whereas in New Zealand, the film made a business of 83.99 lacs. In Malaysia, the film made a business of 8.04 crores. The Rajkumar Hirani film has certainly had a good start in the overseas market and is expected to soar even more.
Aamir has a huge fan following overseas and certainly the film will benefit from it.

PK started off well and has had a good first weekend too. The film collected 95.21 crores on its 1st weekend itself. The Aamir Khan film had an excellent 1st Sunday as the film collected 38.24 crores on its third day. This has been a phenomenal jump from its first day.
PK has now also entered the Top 10 movies of 2014 list. The film has now become the 9th Highest grosser of 2014. With this, the film has now surpassed the collections of Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and has evicted Gunday from the Top 10 2014 list.

PK has opened as per expectations. The much hyped film was supposed to register some good footfalls and as the weekend came to a close, this is what exactly happened. Yes, one expected minimum 30 crore on Day One, considering the release size as well as increase in ticket prices. This didn't really happen as the Friday collections were 26.63 crores. However, this was pretty much compensated for on Saturday and Sunday as the film grew in strength, hence resulting in a weekend of 95.21 crores at the Domestic Box Office.
Now these are encouraging numbers indeed, especially if one considers the draught that has been experienced at the box office since the release of Happy New Year. A start like this gives the Rajkumar Hirani directed affair to consolidate its position well, especially considering the fact that there is no major release till 9th January [when Tevar arrives]. Till then, it has three open weeks for itself and with such a wide field available, Aamir Khan can indeed hope for good moolah.
Having said that, one fact that cannot be denied is that the word of mouth isn’t as exceptional as it was for 3 Idiots. Now that would have ensured a fantabulous total, if the dynamics [release size, ticket price, open weeks] were to be looked at. Still, overall the word of mouth is good, which is fine enough for PK to register a healthy number at the end of the day.
The real story would start unfolding from the second week on when the reliability would be more on the current booking and actual word of mouth instead of advance booking and critical acclaim. That would set the tone for how far does the film go on from here.

Aamir Khan starrer PK started off on a good note. The film which released on a normal Friday made a business of 26.63 crores which is slightly higher than 2014 Highest Grosser Salman Khan’s Kick which opened with 26 crores at the domestic box office.
PK having opened with good footfalls at the multiplexes scored higher over Kick thanks to higher ticket rates too. PK now holds the record of Highest Non-Holiday Opener of 2014 and Second Highest Non-Holiday Opener after Dhoom-3.
The year’s other releases such as Happy New Year remains to be the Highest Holiday Opener of the year, with a massive collection of 44.97 crores. Hrithik Roshan’s Bang Bang and Ajay Devgn’s Singham Returns too being holiday releases scored more than PK.
Other films such as Holiday, 2 States, Ek Villain, which made it to the 100 crore club this year were average openers with collections ranging in 11 to 15 crores. Thus, PK with its wider screen count has kicked off well to become the year’s highest non-holiday opener of the year.

Happy New Year : 44.97 crore (Highest Holiday Opener)
Singham Returns : 32.00 Crores
Bang Bang : 27.54 Crores
PK : 26.63 cr (2nd Highest Non-holiday Opener of All Time)
Kick : 26.00 Crores
Jai Ho : 17.50 Crores
Ek Villain : 16.72 Crores
Gunday : 15.50 Crores
Holiday: A Solider Is Never Off Duty : 12.00 Crores
2 States : 11.75 Crores

After making a business of 26.63 crores on its opening day, Aamir Khan’s PK has shown a decent growth of about 15% overall on an average on Day 2 i.e. First Saturday at the Domestic Box Office. The film has collected 30.34 crores yesterday, thus taking its total to 56.97 crores.
The film witnessed a low occupancy in the morning shows, however it picked up well from the afternoon shows and showed a good escalation in the evening to late night shows.
PK will show a tremendous growth today, considering the advance booking of shows is fantastic. The mouth publicity of PK is good and thanks to the critic’s positive reviews too, the film is expected to make an opening weekend business of over/around 90 crores nett at the Box Office.

Action Jackson remained dull over the second week. The film collected, 80 lacs on Monday, 70 lacs on Tuesday, 60 lacs on Wednesday and 55 lacs on Thursday during it 2nd week in India. The film now stands with a total collection of 55.25 crores at the domestic box office.








This is an extremely poor performance for a Ajay Devgan film. Action Jackson after being trashed by reviewers, the film failed to impress the audiences to. The film's music too was not popular enough. This masala action flick was performing only in single screens but now with the release of PK, it is expected to fold in majority of circuits.

PK has taken off quite decently on its first day. The film has collected 26.63 crores at the domestic box office. The first day was expected to be great and considering that it was a normal Friday, the collections are very good.
​PK is now the Second Highest Non-Holiday Opening after ​Dhoom ​3.
Since PK had shown good advance bookings in metros, the film will certainly show a good jump on the second day. The film performed its best in multiplexes and especially, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore received huge footfalls.
It will be interesting to see if PK will surpass Happy New Year‘s big opening collection of 44 crores plus on its second day.
PK has set a historic record as the highest opening for an Indian Film with a GBO of AUD 161,857 [USD 132,108] across 34 screens.

These have been such disastrous weeks at the box office that one has almost become immune to films falling like nine pins. In fact it is one thing to feel disappointed about the fate of a film and another to be totally oblivious to the manner in which it eventually performs. Of late, the sentiments of trade as well as audience have shifted towards the latter, what with big, medium as well as small budget films failing to even rise, let aside crash at the box office.




This is exactly what happened in the week gone by, what with Badlapur Boys, Main Aur Mr. Riight as well as Life Mein Twist Hai turning out to be certified disasters. There was no opening, no critical acclaim, no momentum over the weekend and no hold during the weekdays. In fact by the time the weekdays actually kick-started, all talks were centered just on PK, which took audience further away from these new releases.
With hardly any audience whatsoever, each of these films has disappeared in one week flat. Truly a sorry state of affairs and one just hopes that the deficit is taken care by some extent at the least with the release of PK and then the newer lot of films in 2015.

PK releases this Friday and it is a given that it would open well. However, the question is ''how well'', considering the fact that it has been a depressing period at the box office of late. With not a single film after Happy New Year taking a good opening, these have been disappointing times at the box office. As it happens when it comes to the mood of the audience, a series of flops deflates all hopes whatsoever and hence it is important that PK reverses the trend.
Considering the fact that it has the kind of names attached [Rajkumar Hirani, Aamir Khan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra] that spell magic, one hopes for a biggie.
There has been absolutely nothing revealed about the core plot of the film which in a way is a good sign as audience can pretty much expect major surprises in store, as was the case with Lage Raho Munna Bhai as well as 3 Idiots. On the other hand music of the film has been a letdown, as a result of which it is going to be the core content that would have to do the talking.
All in all, this is the last hope [figuratively as well as literally] that Bollywood has in 2014 and while 32-35 crore opening day is optimal, practically speaking even 30 crore would be a good sign considering the fact that the film is arriving on a non-holiday.