Box Office: Kapoor And Sons Is A BIG Winner

Kapoor And Sonshas set new records for 2016. After a controlled release which saw traction primarily at major multiplexes of big cities, the Shakun Batra directed flick did well with its target audience.

The film earned around6.65 croremore on Thursday and with this, the collections now stand around the47croremark. These are very good numbers for a film which had seen6.85crorecoming on its Day One. Ever since then, the collections have only escalated during the weekend, and then held on very well right through the weekdays.

In the process, the film has not just enjoyed one of the best Week One of 2016 but is also the third highest grosser of the year already by going pastWazirandGhayal Once Again.

This is how the highest grossers of 2016 look like:

Airlift- 129 crore
Neerja- 75 crore (still running)
Kapoor & Sons- 46.93 (still running)
Wazir- 42 crore
Ghayal Once Again- 40 crore

In fact, when compared to some of the other key multiplexes successes of the last few months,Kapoor & Sonsis doing better thanNeerja[35.32 crore] and evenPiku[41.42 crore]. Though the lifetime total ofPiku[80 crore] is out of reach since another multiplex release of the same genre,Ki & Ka, releases next week, it is a wait and watch situation to see how much closer does it come toNeerja(expected) lifetime [76 crore].

<font color="#0000ff">Kapoor & Sons had a solid eighth day as it took benefit of the holiday for Easter and grossed around 4-4.25 crore nett. This takes the films total to alittle under 50 crore nett. the film faced competition from Rocky Handsome and Batman v Superman but it has found an audience in thebig metros so continued to well there. The weekend will not show the usual growth as its coming off a holiday and there is a big match on Sunday. Nevertheless the film is a HIT and should do around 70 crore nett business</font>

Batman v Superman - Dawn of Justice took the best initial of the year out of all Hindi and English films. Infact its probably the only film to take an initial. The film recorded collections of around 8 crore nett as per early estimates.

The film had the best occupancy this year as these figures came from 1200 screens. the opening is also the the third highest ever for Hollywood in India after Fast & Furious 7 and The Avengers - Age Of Ultron.

The film will also not improve over the weekend as it was a holiday but with around 12 crore nett in the bag already including paid previews it should get to around 25 crore nett.

taran adarsh@taran_adarsh<small></small>

#KapoorAndSonsis faring EXCEPTIONALLY WELL Overseas. Total after Weekend 2: $ 5.35 million [ 35.65 cr].#Airliftwas $ 5.18 million.

Dharma Productions@DharmaMovies<small></small>

The perfect end to the 1st week of#KapoorAndSons.The Kapoors are ecstatic with all this love from around the world!

Sidharth Malhotra,Fawad Afzal KhanandAlia Bhatt