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Akshay Kumar’s Mission Mangal performed beyond the expectations during its extended opening weekend and showed regular drop on Monday. It was touted to face a stiff competition from John Abraham’s Batla House, which didn’t turn out to be the case. Now, one awaits if the movie manages to be a breakthrough movie in Akshay’s career.
As Mission Mangal earned a total of 97.56 crores in its 4-day extended weekend, the hopes were pinned down on the movie to become first 200 crore earner for Akshay Kumar and the expectations from it was to score double-digit on the first weekday. However, it scored 8.91 crores which is still good.
If we talk about Akshay Kumar’s highest grossing movies including 2.0 (Hindi), Kesari, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Rowdy Rathore and Airlift, all of them took an impressive start at the ticket windows and took a huge jump of first Sunday. But from first Monday onwards, stayed a bit low or could be said that they didn’t sustain as predicted.
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While talking about Akshay’s highest grossers, let’s take a look at his top 5 grossers and how they trended during the weekend and first Monday:
2.0 (Hindi) (4-day extended weekend)
Thursday- 20.25 crores
Friday- 18 crores
Saturday- 25 crores
Sunday- 34 crores
Monday- 13.75 crores
5 day total– 111 crores (lifetime 188 crores)