Even as it enters its fourth week, filmmaker Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar 2 is unstoppable at the box-office. The Ranveer Singh-led espionage actioner smashed past the ₹1,000 crore all-India nett milestone last week and has lodged itself comfortably as one the highest grossing films of all time.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge has emerged as the biggest original Hindi film, surpassing previous benchmarks set by films like Stree 2, Jawan, Pathaan and its predecessor Dhurandhar, which created box-office history last December.
According to industry tracker Sacnilk, Dhurandhar: The Revenge has grossed ₹1,246.67 crore in India in three weeks, with overseas gross estimated to be around a staggering ₹407 crore.
Globally, the film has grossed ₹1,653 crore in three weeks, without a release in China or the Middle East.
Including the China box-office, Aamir Khan’s Dangal remains firmly on top as the biggest grosser of all time, with collections a little over ₹2,000 crore.
Dhurandhar 2 won’t be able to surpass Dangal’s global gross—out of which a whopping ₹1,300 crore came from China alone—the film still has more numbers to punch in as it nears the weekend.
It will set its eyes on the next big records, which is Allu Arjun's Pushpa 2, which grossed an estimated ₹1742 crore. The second highest grossing film of all time, including China, remains SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali 2, with an estimated ₹1,810 crore.
On the India front, Dhurandhar 2 will face competition from a Hindi film for the first time next week, as Akshay Kumar-led horror comedy Bhooth Bangla opens with select paid previews from April 16. The film, directed by Priyadarshan, also stars Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Wamiqa Gabbi and Mithila Palkar.
Produced by Jyoti Deshpande and Lokesh Dhar, Dhurandhar 2 continued the journey of Indian intelligence agent Hamza Ali Mazari (Ranveer Singh), also known as Jaskirat Singh Rangi, who operates undercover in Karachi, infiltrating criminal syndicates and political power structures to dismantle a terror network threatening India. The film released on March 19.