Baahubali 2(Hindi) has smashed the records of Sultan and Dangal-BOI

Bahubali 2 - The Conclusion (Hindi) has taken a historic bumper opening of 75-80%. The opening is the best for years, possibly the biggest in real terms this decade. This is happening with a dubbed film and its just staggering. Across the all the circuits the film has created havoc. The bumper opening in Punjab, Delhi and West Bengal ensures a huge opening day number as these are the areas where the film could have faltered as the audience here does not take well to films with South Indian stars and dubbed films from South. But Bahubali 2 - the Conclusion is a different kettle of fish as it conquers these markets as well.

Nothing like this has ever happened on a non holiday in years though being a non holiday the pace may slow at certain times of the day. If this pace continues, the film is going create new first day records in every Hindi film circuit from Mumbai to Punjab to Rajasthan to Odisha. Even if the film does set records in all these circuits it may not be enough for an opening day record as far as Hindi films go. This is because there is limited business from the South as they have their own versions playing in the various circuits. Basically due to this the film does not have the capacity of the big event Hindi film. The capacity may not be there but the occupancy is definitely going to be higher than all the recent big Hindi releases from Prem Ratan Dhan Payo to Sultan to Dangal

The Hindi version is 12-15% short of the regular market for a Hindi film yet it is still going to challenge many of the big Hindi openers. The South versions have all opened to an earth shattering response with practically 90-100% occupancy in all the states be it Nizam / Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka or Kerala. Tamil Nadu is less than the others.

The Overseas market is all set to shatter records from Thursday results where UAE set an all time record while evening previews in USA were simply insane. A $20 million plus weekend is looking on the cards and this is when $10 million is an huge achievement.

Baahubali 2(Hindi) has smashed the records of Sultan and Dangal in terms of initial. The gaps are bigger in the smaller centres compared to metros. Practically in every centre it is the biggest opening in recent history despite it NOT being a holiday. But that does not mean it will be an opening day record as it is playing on less centres due to Telugu and Tamil versions dominating Nizam / Andhra, Mysore and Tamil Nadu. Below are the admit figures of shows before noon with the cinema counts taken from each centre listed next to the city. All figures are from the same theatres for all films.

Mumbai (45 Cinemas)

Bahubali 2 (Hindi) - 11,413 admits

Dangal - 8,287 admits

Sultan - 10,376 admits

Delhi (25 cinemas)

Bahubali 2 (Hindi) - 6,319 admits

Dangal - 4,697 admits

Sultan - 6,083 admits

Chandigarh (8 Cinemas)

Baahubali 2 (Hindi) - 2,017 admits

Dangal - 1,428 admits

Sultan - 2,040 admits

Jaipur (10 cinemas)

Bahubali 2 (Hindi) - 2,996 admits

Dangal - 1,579 admits

Sultan - 2,353 admits

Kanpur (8 Cinemas) (4 single screens)

Bahubali 2 (Hindi) - 3,453 admits

Dangal - 1,480 admits

Sultan - 2,964 admits

TOTAL (96 cinemas)

Bahubali 2 (Hindi) - 26,198 admits

Dangal - 17,471 admits

Sultan - 23,816 admits