Sachin: A Billion Dreams gets a good opening

Sachin - A Billion Dreams had a good first day of 7 crore nett apprx in Hindi. These collections are excellent for what the film is which is basically a doco drama. No other documentary film has ever opened like this in the history of Hindi cinema.

There was Cinema Cinema in 1979 which opened well but that was driven by faces of huge stars like Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman on the posters so the audience came in expecting the regular Hindi film when it was not.

Here it is the Sachin Tendulkar factor which has made the audience come in and this first day number is more than enough for the film as far as economics and it is just about whether the film actually has some mettle and can sustain which could prove tough at these high levels. The film also released in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and English which should take the all India business towards 8 crore nett or maybe even a little higher.

Pirate Of The Caribbean - Salazar's Revenge also did pretty well as it grossed around 4.25 crore nett on day one in all languages. The last film Pirates Of The Caribbean - On Stranger Tides had grossed 3.25 crore nett on its first day so its a decent 30% improvement on that film. The opening is the third best for Hollywood in India after Fast & Furious 8 and XXX - Return On Xander Cage. While on Hollywood, Baywatch looks set to be a huge flop in the States and this film will be released in India next week and a lot of PR is being done to build hype in India due to the presence of Priyanka Chopra but the results are likely to be no different.

There were other Hindi releases like Sargoshiyan and Thodi Thodi Si Manmaaniyan but both could not find an audience.