Chiyaan Vikram’s ‘I’ has been ruling the international box office in its opening weekend and has gave a better performance than many leading Indian movies including Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan’s and Raj Kumar Hirani directorial blockbuster movie PK. I, the showman Shankar directorial has got a quick fire start at many international circuits and still going great guns. As per the reports ‘I’ has got 4.3 crore from its tamil version,1.81 crore from its telugu version and 6.40 lakh from its Hindi versions (3 versions released in US) , from the US Box Office in the opening weekend from 222(Tamil), 131(Telugu) and 36(Hindi) screens it got released there.
When we look at PK, in its fifth weekend, has got 39.08 lakh from 31 screens there. The total collection of Aamir Khan’s movie here is 52.36 crore and it is a record too. There are many releases after PK and I like Hindi movie Tevar and Tamil film Aambala . But they did not perform up to the expected level as far the collection is concerned. Tevar had collected in 1 crore and the Tamil film Ambala had made 1.47 lakh only in the opening weekend at the US Box Office, which is not at all a good start according to the trade guides.
When we take the collection In the Canada box office, ‘I’ has leading the screens by making 1.24 crore from 11 screens it got released there and PK, which has made a total of 12.02 crore up to now had collected 23.56 lakh in its fifth weekend from 12 screens in which it is running there now. Shankar movie performed brilliantly at the UK box office also where it collected 2.41 crore from 57 screens there. In UK, PK has grossed 38.84 lakh from 23 screens and the total collection of the Amir film in this part of the world is 21.63 crore till now. In Australia too ‘I’ had got great collection as it grossed 1.25 crore from 18 screens there and Pk has collected 1.39 lakhs in its fifth weekend there from 5 screens. The overall gross of PK from there was 10.68 crore approximately.
And In New Zealand, ‘I’ raked in about 14.33 lakh from five screens in which it is running there and PK has made 2.02 lakhs in its fifth weekend and a total of 2.72 crore from there. Malaysia has become second biggest market for Vikram’s ‘I’ as the movie has made 3.74 crore in its first weekend from 40 screens in which it is running there and the total collection of PK itself is 39.73 lakh). PK in Last weekend had made 1.61 lakh from two screens it was running there.
