Box office bonanza: Over 23 mn tickets, Rs 400 cr collection in over 2 days

In a little over two days, more than 2.3 crore movie tickets were sold, and box office collections swelled to nearly Rs 400 crore during the busiest single weekend for cinema halls and multiplexes since Covid. From Rajnikanth starrer Jailer to Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel's Gadar 2 to Akshay Kumar's OMG 2 to Chiranjeevi and Tamannah Bhatia's Bholaa Shankar, the movies set the box office bells ringing from the evening of August 11 to 13. The "combined gross box office (was) Rs 390+ crore over the Weekend across All India Theatres," the Multiplex Association of India (MAI) and Producers Guild of India (PGI) said in a joint statement on Monday, in a reflection of good times at theatres. This is a "new all-time theatrical gross box office record" in its 100 years of history, it added. "The weekend drew over 2.10 crore moviegoers to theatres across the county, which is the highest combined admissions record in the last 10 years of history," it said. The weekend of August 11 to 13 was t

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