Prabhas 'Salaar' Dominating Shah Rukh Khan's 'Dunki' At Overseas Box Office
The advance ticket sales for 'Dunki' and 'Salaar' is yet to start in India, but the makers of both films have opened the advance booking overseas.
2023 will end with a bang as Shah Rukh Khan's 'Dunki' and Prabhas' 'Salaar' will be going head to head at the box office. SRK's 'Dunki' directed by Rajkumar Hirani will be releasing in theatres on December 21, while Prashanth Neel-helmed 'Salaar' will hit the theatres on December 22. The advance ticket sales for both films is yet to start in India, but the makers of both films have opened the advance booking overseas. As per initial reports, Prabhas' 'Salaar' will be taking a significantly higher start overseas as compared to 'Dunki'.
As per Box Office Worldwide, until Tuesday afternoon, 'Dunki' did a business of USD 566k with USD 185k coming from North America, USD 68k coming from the UK, and USD 120k coming from Australia.
As per Times of India, 'Dunki' has sold almost 5400 tickets across 320 locations for 915 shows in the US.
On the other hand, Prashanth Neel's 'Salaar' is way ahead of 'Dunki' in the overseas market.
Film trade analyst Girish Johar shared the collection of both 'Salaar' and 'Dunki' on X (formerly Twitter).
Check out the post here:
Advance Bookings Of #Prabhas's #Salaar & #ShahRukhKhan's #Dunki In Overseas so far... #BOTrends #BOTracking #BOEstimates
— Girish Johar (@girishjohar) December 13, 2023
USA:#Salaar- $750k#Dunki- $185k
UK:#Salaar- £120k#Dunki- £70k
Aus/Nz:#Salaar- A$130k#Dunki- A$120k
Gulf:#Salaar- $80k#Dunki- $90k
Europe:… pic.twitter.com/DQJRMLXhwO
The Times of India reported that 'Salaar' has sold 20,461 tickets for 1,104 shows in the US.
Earlier, 'Salaar' producer Vijay Kirgandur of Hombale Films had confirmed that the film locked its December 22 release date due to astrological reasons. For the unversed, 'Salaar' was earlier scheduled to be released in theatres on September 28, but it was postponed due to pending work.
During an interview with Bollywood Hungama, Vijay Kirgandur was asked whether December 22 was chosen as the release date due to "astrological reasons".
Confirming the news, Vijay said, "Yes. We announced the date based on our beliefs. So yes, we do believe in certain aspects. We always plan our dates in this manner for 10-12 years and we’ll do so even in the future. That’s how we announced December 22 and then we didn’t prepone a day though Dunki and Aquaman are coming on December 21.”
Earlier, Prashanth Neel said that no filmmaker desires a clash, be it with a newcomer or a veteran like Rajkumar Hirani.
"Clash is not something you ideally want, be it with a newcomer or with the biggest star of Indian cinema. But it is a very unpleasant situation for anybody to move their date to somebody else's date. We also wouldn't want somebody to move to our date when we have announced it a year before. And we also did not want to do it. But that was a logistical decision that was taken only by the production," Prashanth Neel told Times of India.
"And usually we (me and my team) don't get into the aspects of what the production is going to decide as a release date, because they do not interfere in my process of filmmaking. So I do not interfere in their process of marketing or the release dates, the business aspect," he added.
