Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan establishes Indian dominance as Baahubali breaks more records
In this week’s round-up of the global box-office scene:
• Hollywood’s Minions wins the battle for the second week running
• Chinese superhero spoof Jian Bing Man and CGI/live-action hybrid Monster Hunt bag country’s most lucrative weekend ever
• Ant-Man scores lowest-ever US debut for in-house Marvel film
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Impressive ... Bajrangi Bhaijaan Photograph: PR
Phil Hoad
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Monday 20 July 2015 18.31 BST Last modified on Monday 20 July 2015 21.14 BST
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On the official Rentrak chart, Chinese animated fantasy Monkey King: Hero Is Back, in ninth, and South Korean naval thriller NLL, in 13th, were still lingering from previous weeks. Not featured, and victims of Indian’s patchy box-office auditing, were Telugu behemoth Baahubali and Salman Khan tearjerker/image-rehabilitation project Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The latter looks to have taken India’s No 1 spot this week, with an impressive 102.6 crore ($16.1m) domestic take and at least $2.5m in overseas readies that would put it just inside the global top 10.
Featuring the actor in do-gooder mode as a former wrestler pinning the Kashmir conflict by helping a mute six-year-old Pakistani girl back across the border, the film continues Khan’s domination of India’s Eid box-office window; possibly of little solace to the actor, whose appeal over a five-year sentence for the hit-and-run killing of a homeless man is still pending. SS Rajamouli’s mighty Baahubali, meanwhile, is striding somewhere between 300 and 335 crore ($47.1-52.6m) worldwide at time of writing, depending on which source you trust. That makes it the most successful Telugu film of all time by a long way, the fastest Indian film over 300 crore, and on current standing, the ninth highest grossing Indian film of all time. The film’s technical prowess, dramatic dynamism and financial heft (the Hindi-language version alone has taken over 50 crore) are prompting some soul-searching within Bollywood – too heavily in hock to its bloated star system, according to some.
In this week’s round-up of the global box-office scene:
• Hollywood’s Minions wins the battle for the second week running
• Chinese superhero spoof Jian Bing Man and CGI/live-action hybrid Monster Hunt bag country’s most lucrative weekend ever
• Ant-Man scores lowest-ever US debut for in-house Marvel film
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Impressive ... Bajrangi Bhaijaan Photograph: PR
Phil Hoad
@phlode
Monday 20 July 2015 18.31 BST Last modified on Monday 20 July 2015 21.14 BST
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On the official Rentrak chart, Chinese animated fantasy Monkey King: Hero Is Back, in ninth, and South Korean naval thriller NLL, in 13th, were still lingering from previous weeks. Not featured, and victims of Indian’s patchy box-office auditing, were Telugu behemoth Baahubali and Salman Khan tearjerker/image-rehabilitation project Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The latter looks to have taken India’s No 1 spot this week, with an impressive 102.6 crore ($16.1m) domestic take and at least $2.5m in overseas readies that would put it just inside the global top 10.
Featuring the actor in do-gooder mode as a former wrestler pinning the Kashmir conflict by helping a mute six-year-old Pakistani girl back across the border, the film continues Khan’s domination of India’s Eid box-office window; possibly of little solace to the actor, whose appeal over a five-year sentence for the hit-and-run killing of a homeless man is still pending. SS Rajamouli’s mighty Baahubali, meanwhile, is striding somewhere between 300 and 335 crore ($47.1-52.6m) worldwide at time of writing, depending on which source you trust. That makes it the most successful Telugu film of all time by a long way, the fastest Indian film over 300 crore, and on current standing, the ninth highest grossing Indian film of all time. The film’s technical prowess, dramatic dynamism and financial heft (the Hindi-language version alone has taken over 50 crore) are prompting some soul-searching within Bollywood – too heavily in hock to its bloated star system, according to some.
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