On Saturday, Shah Rukh Khan created history at the India Box Office. After 2200 days, an original Hindi language film has gone past the collections of Aamir Khan's mega-blockbuster Dangal. According to early estimates, Pathan is looking to collect in the range of Rs. 22 to 24 crores on Saturday, taking total collections in Hindi to Rs. 384 crores plus. The all-India total of Pathaan stands at approximately Rs. 398 crores.
With this, Pathan has surpassed the lifetime collections of Dangal in all languages - Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. For those unaware, Dangal collected approximately Rs. 373 crores in Hindi and Rs. 387.38 crores in all versions. On Sunday morning, Pathan will emerge as the first Bollywood film to enter the Rs. 400 crore club at the box office in India. It has already become the biggest Bollywood grosser to date and now is on a journey to go past the collections of KGF 2 and Baahubali 2.
The record of KGF 2 will be broken in the next 5 days, and with that Pathaan will become the biggest grosser in the post-pandemic world in Hindi belts. The challenge is now going to be Baahubali 2, which stands at the top with Rs. 511 crores nett in Hindi. If Pathaan goes past that number, it will become an all-time grosser in the Hindi language, as at the moment, the movie is an all-time grosser for the Hindi Film Industry.
Shah Rukh Khan had last delivered an all-time grosser in 2013 with Chennai Express and now, exactly a decade later, he has delivered another one in 2023.
