NEW DELHI: Toppling the three Khans of Bollywood, Rajinikanth emerged as the winner on Saturday when the makers of Kabali announced that the film had made an opening collection of Rs 250 crore in the domestic market alone.
With figures like that, Kabali is now the all-time biggest opener in India. Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Happy New Year (2014) lags behind at second with Rs 44.97 crore as its opening collection. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015) is a distant third with Rs 40.35 crore in its kitty on day one.
The Salman Khan-Anushka Sharma-starrer Sultan made an opening collection of Rs 36.54 crore which made it the biggest opener of 2016 and the fourth biggest on the list of all-time top openers.
The gap between Kabali and other films can be attributed to the fact that it was released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. It was also released in approximately 8,000 screens across the world, which includes 480 screens in US, 490 in Malaysia and 500 in Gulf.