War box office collection Day 1: All records the Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff film broke
War, featuring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff in the lead, earned around Rs 53.35 crore on its opening day.

The box office is a battlefield, and Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff are the victors. Their film War, which hit the screens yesterday, has wreaked much havoc and earned Rs 53.35 crore on its opening day, smashing the records of several other films along the way.

Here’s a list of the films that it defeated in terms of highest-openings of all time in India.

Avengers Endgame: Rs 53.10 crore
Thugs of Hindostan: Rs 52.25 crore
Happy New Year: Rs 44.97 crore
Bharat: Rs 42.30 crore
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo: Rs 40.35 crore
Sultan: Rs 36.54 crore
Dhoom 3: Rs 36.22 crore
Sanju: Rs 34.75 crore
Tiger Zinda Hai: Rs 34.10 crore
Chennai Express: Rs 33.12 crore

In 2019 itself, War has raced ahead of the opening box-office collections of other star-driven films.

Avengers Endgame: Rs 53.10 crore
Bharat: Rs 42.30 crore
Mission Mangal: Rs 29.16 crore
Saaho (Hindi): Rs 24.40 crore
Kalank: Rs 21.60 crore
Kesari: Rs 21.06 crore
Gully Boy: Rs 19.40 crore

Apart from these records, War’s Day 1 collection is both Hrithik’s and Tiger’s biggest opening till date. It is also YRF’s all-time highest-opener.

War released in 4000 screens in India, and 1350 overseas, bringing the total screen count to 5350.

Expressing his joy at the news, director Siddharth Anand said in a statement, “It is truly overwhelming and gratifying to get this kind of love from audiences for our hard work in making War a truly big-screen spectacle. Having two of the biggest action superstars of Indian cinema, we had the immense responsibility to give audiences a never seen before visual experience and I feel hugely validated that people across the country have loved our action entertainer that has pushed the envelope of the action genre in India.”

War is a cat and mouse game between two agents, after one decides to go “rogue”. It is up to Khalid (Tiger) to track down Kabir (Hrithik) and battle it out in an epic face-off.

source:indiatoday.in/movies