Box office battle: Deepika Padukone races ahead of Katrina Kaif, retains numero uno position!
31/10/2014
With Happy New Year faring exceptionally well, Ms Padukone is back at the top and ruling the box office…
Last year, Deepika Padukone delivered four back-to-back blockbusters – Race 2, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela – and swept away all the awards. This year the babe had only two releases yet she has managed to race ahead in the numbers game. While Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny was a niche flick, Farah Khan’s big budget film Happy New Year has turned out to be the biggest blockbuster of this year. In fact, the musical extravaganza has already broken quite a few records of Katrina Kaif’s action thriller Bang Bang which is one of the highest grossing films of this year.
While Bang Bang collected Rs 94.13 crore in the opening weekend, HNY raked in Rs 108.86 crore in the same duration thus becoming the fastest film to enter the coveted Rs 100 crore club.
That’s not all! On day 1, Kat and Hrithik Roshan starrer had grossed Rs 27.54 crore. As for HNY, the film earned a staggering Rs 44.97 crore on the opening day and not only surpassed Bang Bang but also left behind Dhoom:3. So don’t be surprised if Farah Khan’s directorial venture goes on to create many more records at the box office.
With Happy New Year creating hungama at the ticket windows, DP has once become the reigning queen of Bollywood wethinks.
Interestingly, Deepika and Katrina’s big films have always released around the same time. Last year, Chennai Express came out during Eid and got cash registers jingling whereas Dhoom:3 hit the screens during Christmas re-wrote box office records. While the third installment of Dhoom franchise became the biggest grosser of all times, it was Dippy and not Katrina who walked away with all the awards and was tagged as the number 1 heroine as she had four super hit films to her credit. And this year too it’s Ranveer Singh’s ladylove who has shined with her performances and box office status.
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