Vicky Kaushal's URI: The Surgical Strike Beats Ranveer Singh's Simmba At The Box Office

Ever since its release, the Vicky Kaushal starrer URI: The Surgical Strike has achieved many feats, in terms of box-office collection, including the most important one – it is the highest-grossing mid-budget Bollywood movie. Now, Uri: The Surgical Strike has had another acheivement to its kitty.

The Vicky Kaushal-starrer has finally beat Ranveer Singh’s blockbuster Simmba. While the Ranveer Singh-starrer made a total of Rs 240.31 crore at the box-office in its lifetime run, Uri, on its 53rd day of release, made a total of Rs 240.38 crore, beating Simmba by Rs 7 lakh.

Vicky Kaushal dethroned Ranveer Singh at the box office. Ironically he is the same man who had been rejected by Deepika Padukone as co-star in Padmaavat.

Entire nation is high on the josh delivered by the film a proof of which is seen at the box office.

The film is based on the 2016 Indian army’s surgical strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan in retaliation for the terror attack on an Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir.

Starring Vicky Kaushal in the lead role, URI is his first action packed film of 2019 which also boasts of an ensemble cast.