Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkumar Rao’s film ‘Stree 2’ has started making waves in theaters as soon as it was released on Thursday. The horror-comedy film ‘Stree’, released in 2018, surprised people and made huge profits and was one of the most profitable Bollywood films of the year. Now its sequel has made it clear from the very first day that this time the blast will be even bigger.
On the very first day, this horror comedy film broke the records of big action films. People were expecting huge earnings from the sequel of ‘Stree’, but no one expected the level at which this film opened. Since its opening, ‘Stree 2’ has made many big records.
biggest opening in hindi
Shahrukh Khan’s last year’s film ‘Jawaan’ had an opening of Rs 65.50 crore, which was the all-time best opening of Hindi films. Shahrukh’s film ‘Jawaan’ was also at second place, which did a business of Rs 55 crore in Hindi on the first day. Whereas the last film in the top 3 was Ranbir’s film ‘Animal’, whose opening collection was Rs 54.75 crore.
Trade reports suggest that the final opening collection of ‘Stree 2’ is Rs 55.40 crore. And that too without adding the earnings from paid preview shows. In these preview shows, the film has collected Rs 9.40 crore on Wednesday. That means ‘Stree 2’ is now the second highest opening film in Hindi after ‘Jawaan’. ‘Pathan’ has reached number three and ‘Animal’ is now out of the top 3.
Biggest opening of this year
Bollywood films had seen opening days of more than Rs 40 crore 5 times last year. Pathan, Jawan, Animal, Tiger 3 and Gadar attracted huge crowds of audiences in theaters last year. But this year, the biggest opening film ‘Fighter’ also earned only Rs 24 crore on the first day.
But now ‘Stree 2’ has opened at the same level as big Bollywood films did last year. The first day of ‘Stree 2’ is also the highest earning day of Hindi box office so far in 2024.
Biggest opening of Shraddha and Rajkumar’s career
Rajkumar Rao, who has always been a favorite of the audience for his strong acting performance, has not been a very popular actor at the box office. ‘Stree’, which earned Rs 6.82 crore on the first day, remained the biggest opening film of his career for 6 years.
This record in his account was changed by ‘Mr. and Mrs. Mahi’ released this year, which earned Rs. 6.85 crores on the first day. But now ‘Stree 2’ has added a grand opening to Rajkumar Rao’s account with Rs 55.40 crores.
‘Stree 2’ is also the best opening of her career for Shraddha Kapoor. Earlier, her top opening was Rs 24.40 crore, which came from her film ‘Saaho’ (2019) with Prabhas.
Highest grossing film on Independence Day
15th August i.e. Independence Day has been a record breaking day for Bollywood films. Last year, the record of highest earning on this day was made by Sunny Deol’s film ‘Gadar 2’. Sunny’s box office Toofan had a net collection of Rs 55.40 crore on 15th August.
Many people thought that this record of Sunny would not be broken for years. But exactly one year later, ‘Stree 2’ has also equaled the record of becoming the highest grossing film on August 15 with a net collection of Rs 55.40 crore.
‘Stree 2’ has started well on the first day itself and is going to make even bigger earnings at the box office on the weekend. Both reviews and word of mouth of the film are positive. On top of that, it will also get the benefit of Raksha Bandhan on Monday. The way ‘Stree 2’ has started, it seems to be a film that will earn at least Rs 300 crore.