6 Records Broken By Deepika Padukone's Padmaavat In Its Opening Weekend

Since the day Sanjay Leela Bhansali announced Padmavati, protests erupted all across the country from numerous fringe political outfits as well as religious groups. Even during the shooting of the film in Jaipur, the sets were vandalised and the director was manhandled.

There were threats made to the cast and crew of the film and bounties were announced over the body parts of Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Even after repeated assurances by Bhansali that the film doesn't portray the Rajputs in bad-light nor does it has any scene between Khilji and Padmavati, the protestors didn't budge. The movie made its way to the theatres sans 'I", titled Padmaavat and the states of Rajasthan, MP, Gujarat and Goa refused to show the film.

Still, the threats by the protestors were not enough to keep the movie-going audiences from the theatres and Padmaavat is on its way to becoming a big hit at the box-office. During its extended weekend, the film has managed to break records and as the word of mouth is strong, the film will slowly capitalize on its numbers. Here are the records that have been broken by Padmaavat till now:

Deepika Padukone's 7th 100 Crore film: The film makes her the top Bollywood actress working in the industry today. She is the only actress to have 7 100 Crore films in the 100 Crore club. Her previous entries include- Race 2, Chennai Express, Happy New Year, Ram Leela, Bajirao Mastani and Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani.

Highest Opening Weekend in Australia for a Bollywood film: In its opening weekend itself, the film has crossed the lifetime business of Dilwale, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bajirao Mastani, Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai.

Ranveer Singh's 3rd film to cross 100 Crores: All of Ranveer's 100 Crore films have come up with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and it looks like Padmaavat may emerge as the highest grossing film of SLB and Ranveer Singh's career.

4th highest Opening Weekend for a Bollywood film (domestic): With collections of 110 Crore, Padmaavat is at 4th spot of all-time opening weekends in Bollywood. Only Sultan, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and Tiger Zinda Hai are ahead of it.

Shahid Kapoor's 1st 100 Crore film: The film has emerged as Shahid's first 100 Crore grosser as well as his highest grosser ever. 

Highest Single Day Collection in North America: The film broke the record of PK's highest single day collection (1.4 million USD) when it collected 1.8 Million USD on 27th January.