north collection driven by Ranbeer kapoor's popularity https://www.boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=4088
Sanju has emerged the biggest blockbuster of the year and generally the film is looked at as a Rajkumar Hirani film which is fair as its basically four blockbusters in a row now and his first film also did well. But it also has to be said that a Rajkumar Hirani film has never got off to a flyer like this in the North and there Ranbir Kapoor is a factor. Raj Kumar Hirani has made five films till date and generally they are very Mumbai films barring PK which was more universal. Films like Munnabhai MBBS, Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots all took time in the North to catch up with Mumbai. The first film Munnabhai MBBS did not even do that well outside Mumbai and South. Now Sanju is a similar Mumbai film be it setting, underworld, drugs or in language so North to be less than Mumbai initially is par for the course as films with a bigger canvas, scale and larger than life setting is preferred. But the popularity that Ranbir Kapoor has in Delhi NCR and East Punjab ensured that North was as strong as Mumbai. This popularity showed even in the collections of Besharam years back as that film had opening figures like the Shahrukh Khan starrer Chennai Express (which released a few months earlier) in the North but much lower elsewhere. Even an extended guest appearance in Roy was driven by Delhi / UP and East Punjab. The six day numbers are on par with a North based wrestling film like Dangal which should not really be happening but that is the popularity of Ranbir Kapoor in those markets. The huge numbers in the North are due to Ranbir Kapoor as would not have come with any other actor in this film. No doubt a good Salman Khan action film can go higher but in a Mumbai based film even a Salman Khan could struggle to give these sort of numbers.
#Sanju 6 Days India Nett Fri - ₹34.75 cr Sat - ₹38.60 cr Sun - ₹46.71 cr Mon - ₹25.35 cr Tue - ₹22.10 cr Wed - ₹18.90 cr Total - ₹186.41 cr
Friday - 34,19,00,000 Saturday - 38,41,00,000 Sunday - 46,73,00,000 Monday - 25,25,00,000 apprx Tuesday - 21,75,00,000 apprx Wednesday - 18,25,00,000 apprx Thursday - 15,50,00,000 apprx Week One - 2,00,08,00,000 apprx Friday - 12,50,00,000 apprx TOTAL - 2,12,58,00,000 apprx
