Gabbar Singh,Telugu remake of the Salman Khan-starrer Bollywood blockbuster Dabangg has taken the box office by storm.The power-packed film has become the biggest grosser for a Telugu film, collecting a staggering Rs 128.75 crore in just three weeks (till June 1) in the domestic and global market together. It is also closing in on the box-office success of the movie it has been inspired by. Dabangg had grossed over Rs 173 crore, which catapulted it into the league of the top five Bollywood blockbusters.
Gabbar Singh was made with a budget of Rs 30 crore and released on 2,857 screens worldwide, which made it one of the widest distributed Telugu films."It’s an out-and-out show reel of Pawan Kalyan. We expect the exhibitors to rake in the moolah in the weeks to come" says Bandla Ganesh, the film’s producer.
The last Telugu films that made waves were Mahesh Babu’s Dookudu,which grossed Rs 83.15 crore in the first 21 days, and Ramcharan Teja’s Magadheera which garnered Rs 90 crore in the same period. Om Prakash, a Telugu film trade analyst, said, "The character has caught the fancy of fans. The film has created an all-time record so far and will keep the cash registers ringing."
Last weekend, Gabbar Singh crossed $1 million (about Rs 5.5 crore) at the US box office. In its opening weekend in the US, the movie collected Rs 4.13 crore ($765,373). These are the numbers that any big Bollywood hero take happily for that matter. The movie was released on 43 screens in the US, with the per screen average working out to Rs 9.61 lakh (or $17,799). GabbarSingh has showed power of Tollywood and it's audience to the box office at national stage. Let us see how it performs in coming weeks.
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