The last two months has seen Hollywood give two HITS in India with Fast X and Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning though despite proving solid HITS the numbers may be seen a little bit on the lower side considering the franchise value of the two films. But this week there is a total outperformance with Oppenheimer which has opened better that both the established franchises in the places where bulk of the collections come for Hollywood.

There is only a Hindi dubbed version for the film and the opening here is so so and not much of a release but the English version is simply outstanding and far better than the likes of Fast X and Mission. In fact at some cinemas the opening is comparable to Avatar - The Way Of Water. It is the brand value of director Christopher Nolan at play here with the class audiences of major centres. The better cinemas of places like Lucknow and Nagpur are also managing to up a very good show in the English version. The opening day collections are likely to be best of the year for Hollywood and that too without much of a dubbed release.

Barbie has also taken a good opening and is another film for the classes. A city like Mumbai has seen problems for Hindi films post the pandemci but these two Hollywood films are having no siiues recording good occupancy in Mumbai in the multiplexes. The opening in India is good but well short of Oppenheimer but its a different story in the West where the Barbie brand is likely to come out on top.

Summertime has been a good time for the box office as The Kerala Story, Fast X, Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, Satyaprem Ki Katha, Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning and now these two Hollywood films are also seeing good footfalls. There were also a few good days for Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and Adipurush though the films got rejected. It would have been nice to see more Hindi films in the mix but releases have been minimal over the last 2-3 months.