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Raid box office collection: Ajay starrer steady, touching 90 crore in second week

A still from 'Raid'.

Mumbai: Ajay Devgn's thriller drama 'Raid' is holding up at the box office even in the third week of its release. The movie has already collected 86.98 crore and is inching towards 100 crore.

Noted trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the numbers on Twitter writing, "#Raid [Week 2] Fri 3.55 cr, Sat 5.71 cr, Sun 7.22, Mon 2.42 cr, Tue 2.41 cr, Wed 2.62 cr. Total: 86.98 cr. India biz.

The movie collected approximately 10.04 crore net, thus doing a decent business on the opening day, and the movie even did well on Monday post the weekends by earning more than 6 crores. By the first weekend, the total collections of 'Raid' were 41.01 crore.

In the second week, the collections did not drop and rather doubled up and the movie is now inching towards 100 crore, despite Rani Mukerji's Hichki' giving it competition.

The main competition this Ajay Devgn starrer will face is after Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani starrer 'Baaghi 2' releases in theatres on Friday.

Raid has emerged as a solid success in two weeks flat. The film has already collected 90 crore* at the Box Office which is a very good number. Reason being that even after a double digit start on its first Friday, it had seemed that the maximum lifetime distance that the film would cover is 90 crore. However what has made the difference is solid hold that the film has managed in its second week.

The film has stayed ultra stable and as a matter of fact even shown upward trend in the latter part of the second week, owing to partial holidays. Even today the film would register good numbers due to Good Friday holiday. In fact the film has an outside chance of entering the 100 Crore Club by the close of third weekend itself, though all said and done it would reach that milestone during this week for sure.

Ajay Devgn has shown his consistency yet again with the successful run of the film and it is good to see a realistic drama like Raid bringing on audience. For director Raj Kumar Gupta, the film's success has proven to be a shot in the arm as now he can well look forward to a much more interesting innings in Bollywood for years to come.

*Estimates. Final numbers awaited

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