At the box office, Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan keeps rewriting history. The movie is anticipated to have finally outperformed Aamir Khan’s Dangal earnings. According to a report in Bollywood Hungama, Pathaan is anticipated to have brought in between Rs. 22 and Rs. 24 crores on Saturday, bringing the total in Hindi up to about Rs. 384 crores, bringing the whole India total for Pathaan to about Rs. 398 crores.
With this, Pathaan has surpassed Dangal’s previous record of Rs 387 crore. The film will shortly join the Rs 400 crore club at Indian theatres. The largest Bollywood film, Pathaan, is now vying for KGF 2 and Baahubali 2’s box office revenue.
Shah Rukh Khan last produced a hit of this magnitude with Chennai Express in 2013
In the following five days, Pathaan is anticipated to surpass KGF 2’s record and, if it maintains its current trajectory, it will surpass Baahubali 2’s record of Rs. 511 crores in Hindi. The movie will surpass all previous Hindi box office records if it succeeds in its endeavor. Shah Rukh Khan last produced a hit of this magnitude with Chennai Express in 2013. The spy thriller has also been a worldwide success, grossing over Rs 725 crore. In some ways, Pathaan has been a savior for Bollywood, which had been written off during the previous two years due to boycott efforts and subpar movies. Only a small number of movies in 2022 were successful at the box office, while others including Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar fizzled out.
Shah Rukh was able to “forget the last four years” while he was back home thanks to Pathaan’s resounding success. During a recent media appearance, he thanked the audience for coming out in such large numbers to see Pathaan and said, “I just want to say there’s so much love from all sides and we can never show enough thanks. We appreciate you on behalf of the motion picture industry for revitalizing movie theatres. The achievement is all the more impressive considering that SRK chose to conduct weekly Ask SRK sessions on Twitter rather than partake in standard promotional activities like city tours and media appearances.