Kalki 2898 AD box office: Prabhas starrer beats Tiger Zinda Hai, Padmaavat & Sanju in 5 days flat - here's how

Filmmaker Nag Ashwin’s Kalki 2898 AD featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas, Kamal Haasan and Deepika Padukone has turned out to be a global blockbuster at the box office.

In just 5 days, _Kalki 2898 AD_ has entered the Rs 600 crore at the worldwide box office and has surpassed the business of Tiger Zinda Hai (Rs 564.2 crore), Padmaavat (Rs 571.98 crore) and Sanju (Rs 586.85 crore).

Since there are no major releases in this weekend, the mythological sci-fi will continue its dominance at the domestic box office.

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While talking to Firstpost, trade expert Ramesh Bala had predicted the humongous collection of the movie and had said, “See, basically the movie has done the business of Rs  300 crores in two days, which means Friday and Saturday. It can cross 500 crores by Sunday night, which is still a good number. Then you are looking at weekdays there will be a weekday drop. So, we have to just see how much is the weekday drop. And certainly next weekend it will pick up. So, eventually, it shouldn’t be a problem. I think it may not have the greatest hold on Monday. It will be like an average hold still that I think overall given the second weekend, third weekend and overall it should reasonably do big numbers, lifetime.”

Decoding the phenomenal business of South films in the overseas markets, Bala quoted, “See, two things are there. If you look at the US, it has a huge Telugu population audience. So they keep the momentum. It’s like jump-starting the car. They give the initial momentum with premiers. Hindi movies don’t have any premieres and they just open on day one. But the premieres of Telugu films all over the world help to give it a start. Momentum at the opening then the larger-than-life narrative, the cast, the wide, the overseas audience always prefer to spend money on big budget movies and big stars. So, that helps it to do well. In overseas, apart from the Hindi-speaking people, there are a lot of Tamil and Telugu-speaking people like in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, all over the world, Europe and North America, Australia also. So it is a pan-India audience overseas. Unlike the north Indian audience for Hindi movies, it’s all the audience wants to watch. Look at countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka are predominantly a Tamil market. Since Kamal Haasan is there in the Tamil version, which is released, they will watch it for him. They may not have that advantage.”