Despite facing stiff competition from War 2 and Coolie, director Ashwin Kumar’s animated venture, Mahavatar Narsimha, continues its record-breaking streak at the box office. The film, which started its journey with Rs 1.46 crore, currently stands with a total of around Rs 170 crore.
Mahavatar Narsimha has now become the 4th highest-grossing fifth Saturday of all time, after Chhaava , Stree 2 , and Pushpa 2 , surpassing biggies like Pathaan, Jawan, Gadar 2 , and Animal .
Highest 5th Saturday grossers of all-time
Chhaava: Rs 7.62 crore
Stree 2: Rs 5.55 crore
Pushpa 2: Rs 5 crore
Mahavatar Narsimha (Hindi): Rs 3.50 crore
Jawan: Rs 2.35 crore
Baahubali 2 (Hindi): Rs 2.25 crore
Pathaan: Rs 2.03 crore
Gadar 2: Rs 1.85 crore
Animal: Rs 1.50 crore
Directed by Ashwin Kumar and written by Jayapurna Das, the movie is bankrolled by Shilpa Dhawan, Kushal Desai and Chaitanya Desai under the banners of Kleem Productions and Hombale Films.
The version of the movie was dubbed by Aditya Raj Sharma, Haripriya Matta, Sanket Jaiswal, Priyanka Bhandari, Vasundhra Bose, Harjeet Walia, Sanchit Wartak, Saanwari Yagnik, Dinesh Varma, Uplaksh Kochhar, Akshay Joshi, Dinesh Varma, Harish Moily, Ajay Singhal, Sankalp Jaiswal, Karan Trivedi, Abhishek Sharma, Dixoan Shah, Shahid Zafar, Rakesh Soni, Ayushi Anand, Anshul Sharma
Talking about the review, Firstpost gave the film 3 stars and wrote, “ Mahavtar Narsimha also narrates the beautiful story of a young 5-year-old child of Hiranyakashipu named Prahlad, one of the greatest devotees of Lord Vishnu, who remains fearless of his father’s oppression and makes several attempts to make Hiranyakashipu understand his wrongdoings.
Director Ashwin Kumar deserves accolades for bringing one of the golden parts of our Indian history, which not only speaks about our gods but also sheds light on devotion and important parts of our festivals and celebrations, like Holika Dahan.
In the time of larger-than-life action spectacles and rom-coms, experiencing a movie like Mahavatar Narsimha definitely evokes different kinds of positive and holistic emotions.”
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