Sachin: A Billion Dreams' day one box office collection — will it surpass Baahubali 2?

Sachin: A Billion Dreams, one of the most anticipated film of this year opened to cinema theatres on 26 May in 2400 screens in India and 400 screens overseas.

The film is a docudrama based on the life of ‘God of Cricket’, directed by James Erskine, has been garnering a lot of interest among the cricket fans and cinemagoers alike, which is a feat only someone like Tendulkar can only possibly achieve.

His records and achievements are indeed national pride.

The Indian Express reports , according to updates on morning shows of 26 May, the film saw almost 40% occupancy in most places. That is a fairly good number for a working day like Friday.

The film has various reasons to do very well at the box office, the most important being it is on Sachin who is a God for Indians who celebrate cricket as a religion.

The religion-centric gentry that Indians are, the film is expected to dethrone Baahubali 2 in a short while. But only time will tell if it can take on the mammoth numbers of SS Rajamouli films

Bollywoodhungama.com, in one of its reports , states box-office figures from overseas. According to the website, Australia box-office registered $17,754 (Rs. 11.45 lakhs) from 26 screens while New Zealand box-office had $7,230 (Rs. 4.66 lakhs) from 10 screens.

Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter on 27 May and presented the day-one figures of India.