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2018 was a good year for the Indian box office with both year’s start and end wrapping up on a good note. But out of all, the clash between Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero and Yash’s KGF Chapter 1 was quite a memorable one. To be honest, earlier no one expected it to be a clash. But as the saying goes “Content is the king”, we saw the entire box office game turning around.
After receiving a phenomenal response for the trailer, Zero was touted to be a record smasher but it didn’t happen so. Not great but the film took a decent start of 20.14 crores. The picture wasn’t very clear on the first day of its release, but from day 2 onwards the mixed word-of-mouth and excessive social media trolling took a heavy toll on the film’s growth. Contrary to picking up, the collections went down to 18.22 crores.
On the other side, Yash’s KGF Chapter 1 took a very slow start in the Hindi market. Even though the actor had a good following in Sandalwood industry, he was a new face in Hindi speaking belt. As a result, the opening of just 2.10 crores came in. Speaking of Hindi version, it was distributed by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment and henceforth, the film saw a good chunk of screens coming its way. It saw very good audience feedback on the first day when compared to Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero.
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