Sultan Has Extraordinary Saturday

Sunday 10 July 2016 12.30 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

Sultan had a phenomenal Saturday with business of around 36.50 crore nett which takes the four day total to around 142 crore nett and if the advances for Sunday are counted the 150 crore nett barrier had already been breached by the end of business on Saturday.

The film just ran riot on Saturday especially in North India with Delhi / UP flirting with all time record collections and East Punjab growing a humongous 30% plus from high levels on Friday. It is very difficult for a commercial masala film coming on a such a wide release to grow on Saturday if its day two but here there is growth in the 20% region despite it being day four.

The Eid benefit is normally there for three days in the Muslim centres and that will have ended yesterday but it is Sunday now and normally for this type of film you would assume that Sunday will show more growth than Saturday so possibly history is about to be created with the first 40 crore nett plus day and highest single day in history.

Obviously it is not certain that Sunday will show more growth than Saturday because eventually the Sunday is day five and Muslim centres are getting back to normal but with the sort of Saturday the film has had even 10% growth will mean an extraordinary Sunday.

Basically the film is going to do similar to what Bajrangi Bhaijaan (184 cr) did in a week in five days. It could go a little higher or little lower depending on Sunday but the range is around Bajrangi Bhaijaan seven days in five days.