Mission Mangal Has Already Created These Box-Office Records In The First Weekend Of Its Release

Akshay Kumar’s Midas touch has worked yet again and Mission Mangal has emerged as another clear winner at the box-office. Directed by debutante director Jagan Shakti, the film made on the backdrop of India’s successful Mars Orbiter Mission, received mixed reaction from the critics but has stirred a storm at the box office.

The film opened at Rs. 29.16 crores on Thursday and dominated the box-office collecting Rs. 17.28 crores on Friday, Rs. 23.58 crores on Saturday and a whopping Rs. 27.54 crores on Sunday which make it one of the most successful films of the year so far. In fact, just in the first weekend of its release, the film has managed to establish a few significant box-office records. Here are the ones we are talking about.

Highest Opener For The Entire Cast

Mission Mangal brought together quite a remarkable cast, some of them who have given some pretty remarkable hits. But with Rs. 29.16 crores, the film is the highest opener for all the actors including Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Sharma Joshi, Kirti Kulhari and Nithya Menen.

2^nd Highest Weekend Grosser Of 2019

The film has raked in about Rs. 97. 56 crores just in the first weekend of its release, which is a staggering number in itself. But what is more significant is the fact that it has surpassed the weekend collection of some of the biggest hits of this year including Kabir Singh, Gully Boy and Akshay Kumar’s own film Kesari.

2^nd Highest Grossing Holiday Release Of 2019

So far, 2019 has been quite a money-maker for Bollywood. Films like Kabir Singh, Uri: The Surgical Strike and Gully Boy have made the cash-registers sing, but all of them were non-holiday releases. Mission Mangal has emerged to be the second-highest holiday opener of this year and is only below Bharat which released on Eid and opened a mind-numbing Rs. 42.30 crores.

2^nd Highest Opener On An Independence Day In The Last Decade

Independence Day has always been one of the marquee dates in the calendar for releasing films in Bollywood. Some of the biggest films which released on August 15 in the last decade include Shah Rukh Khan’s Chak De India, Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger, and Akshay Kumar’s Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. Mission Mangal is only second to Ek Tha Tiger, which made Rs. 32.92 crores in 2012, in terms of opening numbers, if you take all the films released on 15^th August in the last decade.