One Man Industry Akshay Kumar Registers An Unbelievable Feat, Has Each Of His Four Releases In 2019 Amongst Top-10 Weekend Openers
Akshay's All 4 Releases Among Top Weekend Openers
As 2019 remains fresh in our memories it is noteworthy that Akshay Kumar has managed a remarkable feat in the year. He is the only superstar in the current times to have registered as many as four of his releases in a single calendar year to feature amongst the Top-10 weekend openers. While Mission Mangal, Kesari and Housefull 4 had scored big as well, now add Good Newwz to the list.
One Man Industry Akshay Kumar Registers An Unbelievable Feat, Has Each Of His Four Releases In 2019 Amongst Top-10 Weekend Openers
The film opened well on Friday and then showed good momentum building for it during rest of the weekend. Good jumps were always on the cards for the film and that has resulted in a healthy weekend for the Akshay Kumar starrer.
This is how the first three days numbers of 2019 biggies look like:
War - 100.15 crores
Bharat - 95.50 crores
Dabangg 3 - 81.15 crores
Saaho - 79.08 crores
Kabir Singh - 70.83 crores
Mission Mangal - 70.02 crores
Good Newwz - 64.99 crores
Total Dhamaal - 62.4 crores
Kesari - 56.56 crores
Housefull 4 - 53.22 crores
As can be seen, Akshay Kumar is pretty much living up to his reputation of being a one man industry. For starters, he is the only actor to consistently churn out three to four releases a year. Secondly, he is keeping audience's interest intact in his frequent arrivals. Thirdly, he is seeing constantly good opening at the box office too. Moreover, to have them all emerge as best enough so as to feature in the Top-10 is stuff that dreams are made of.
Between the 6th and the 10th spot, Akshay Kumar is a one man show already with four of out of five releases belonging to him, Total Dhamaal being the only exception. Now 2020 is already looking quite exciting with Sooryavanshi, Laxmmi Bomb, Prithviraj and Bachchan Pandey set to release in each of the four quarters of the year. One waits to see how do these films perform in theaters on their arrival and whether yet again Akshay Kumar ends up earning all the major slots in the Top-10.
Note: All collections as per production and distribution sources