Box Office – Adah Sharma’s The Kerala Story goes past Gangubai Kathiawadi and Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi, is the BIGGEST female centric opener ever after Week One(Photo Credit –Poster)
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History has been created. Adah Sharma’s The Kerala Story is a BLOCKBUSTER already and is now scaling further heights with every passing day. Amongst the female-centric films, it’s finding itself right up there in the list of top openers and while it was in Top-5 for the opening day and the opening weekend, the consistency right through the week means that when it comes to the first week collections, it’s right there at the top.
The film has comfortably gone past Gangubai Kathiawadi, Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi, Veere Di Wedding, Raazi and The Dirty Picture, each of which had scored a half century in their first week.
In fact the only two films in this list which went on to score a century as well are Raazi and Gangubai Kathiawadi, and this is the targets that the Adah Sharma would surpass by tomorrow itself.
Here are the Top-10 first week/first 7-day numbers of the female-centric films:
The Kerala Story – 81.36 crores
Gangubai Kathiawadi – 68.93 crores
Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi – 61.15 crores
Veere Di Wedding – 56.96 crores
Raazi – 56.59 crores
The Dirty Picture – 52.50 crores
Dear Zindagi – 47 crores
Mary Kom – 42 crores
Ragini MMS 2 – 39.38 crores
Heroine – 36.50 crores
Some call Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Stree also as female-centric films but that’s an incorrect interpretation since former had Madhavan in an equal role as Kangana Ranaut (and also in a title role) whereas Stree had Rajkummar Rao having far greater screen time than Shraddha Kapoor who was central to the plot but not quite solely leading the show. That said, The Kerala Story has gone past both these films as well but to mention these films are was to bring things in perspective.
Note: Box office numbers are based on estimates and various sources. Numbers have not been independently verified by Koimoi.
