'The Raja Saab' Box-Office: Prabhas' Horror-Comedy Crosses ₹100 Crore in India, Records Disappointing Trend

Filmmaker Maruthi's latest horror comedy, The Raja Saab, ended its first weekend with all-India collections crossing the century mark at the box-office, but recorded a downward trend with collections dipping ever since its opening on Friday.

According to industry tracker Sacnilk, The Raja Saab netted a little over ₹9 crore on Thursday with paid previews, followed by an opening day of ₹53.75 crore.

But then, the film's poor reception started coming into play with The Raja Saab losing momentum from day two onwards. On Saturday, the movie netted ₹26 crore, a sharp 51 percent drop from day one. Sunday, which should have been closer to the opening day numbers, was in fact the film's worst day with collections completely crashing.

On day three, The Raja Saab netted ₹19.1 crore, taking its first weekend domestic total to ₹108 crore. A bulk of the collections came from the film's original Telugu version, which clocked in over ₹91 crore.

Meanwhile, the Hindi market, where Prabhas enjoys a loyal fan following, barely created any ripples with the weekend collections only reaching a disappointing ₹15 crore mark. The film collected ₹85 lakhs in Tamil, ₹23 lakhs in Kannada and ₹17 lakhs in the Malayalam version.

Even though the film had officially crossed over ₹100 crore globally on day one, The Raja Saab is among the lowest opening films of Prabhas in his post-Baahubali era, with the only other exception being the romantic drama Radhe Shyam, which was also a box-office bomb and performed poorly in Hindi.

Also starring Sanjay Dutt, Boman Irani, Malavika Mohanan, Nidhhi Agerwal, Riddhi Kumar and Zarina Wahab, The Raja Saab will have to put up a strong hold on Monday to settle for a decent lifetime total, which is at odds with its production budget, said to be over ₹350 crore. The film might get some boost due to the holiday period this week.