Sultan is the tenth bumper opening this decade after Dabangg, Bodyguard, Agneepath, Ek Tha Tiger, Chennai Express, Dhoom 3, Singham Returns, Happy New Year and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. It means that less than two films a year manage to achieve the feat and the audience is only coming in hordes when its a national holiday. Only Dhoom 3 out of the above is outside a national holiday and that is an eviable achievement.

These sort of initials were witnessed much more prior to this decade as the holiday film watching culture was less prevalent due to a lower ratio of business coming from multiplexes.

The above list consists of five Salman Khan starrers highlighting his initial draw and dominating of the box office this decade. There are two films for Shahrukh Khan and one each for Aamir Khan, Ajay Devgn and Hrithik Roshan. No other star has managed to get a 20 crore nett plus opening even though we are now talking about 40 nett plus figures which may come with Sultan