Gadar 2 and Jawan have been in a close race to overtake Pathaan as the biggest Hindi grosser of all time. On Thursday, film trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the latest domestic box office figures of Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel's Gadar 2 and said the period drama is now the highest grossing Hindi film, earning ₹524.75 crore nett in India. Also read: Jawan vs Gadar 2 box office collection
Gadar 2 beats Pathaan in India
Shah Rukh Khan's spy action thriller Pathaan, which was released in January this year, has been the highest grossing movie ever in Hindi for months now. There has been buzz around which film will beat Pathaan to take the top spot – Shah Rukh's latest blockbuster Jawan, which was released on September 7, or Sunny's Gadar 2, which came out on August 11.
On Thursday, Taran posted on X (formerly Twitter), “Gadar 2 crosses lifetime business of Pathaan's Hindi version [ ₹524.53 crore] in India… Now no. 1 HIGHEST GROSSING FILM in Hindi in India…”
Further sharing Gadar 2's box office figures, he tweeted, “Business at a glance... Week 1: ₹284.63 cr (crore). Week 2: ₹134.47 cr. Week 3: ₹63.35 cr. Week 4: ₹27.55 cr. Week 5: ₹7.28 cr. Week 6: ₹4.72 cr. Weekend 7: ₹2.75 cr [till Wednesday]. Total: ₹524.75 crore nett in India.”
{{/usCountry}}Further sharing Gadar 2's box office figures, he tweeted, “Business at a glance... Week 1: ₹284.63 cr (crore). Week 2: ₹134.47 cr. Week 3: ₹63.35 cr. Week 4: ₹27.55 cr. Week 5: ₹7.28 cr. Week 6: ₹4.72 cr. Weekend 7: ₹2.75 cr [till Wednesday]. Total: ₹524.75 crore nett in India.”
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile Jawan is slowly inching towards the ₹600 crore club in India and has so far collected ₹579.93 crore nett in all languages, as per a report by Sacnilk.com. The film was released in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.
Gadar 2 success party
It is the sequel to the hit film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, which released in theatres in 2001. In the film, Sunny Deol plays the role of Tara Singh, an Indian truck driver, while Ameesha Patel played Sakeena, a Pakistani woman.
Earlier this month, the makers of Gadar 2 hosted a grand success party in Mumbai, where several actors such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Varun Dhawan, Dharmendra, Sidharth Malhotra, Kiara Advani, and Shilpa Shetty among others marked their presence. Sunny's son-actor Karan Deol treated his fans with inside pictures from the party.
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