Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo grosses a whopping Rs 83 cr from Day 1

Allu Arjun’s ‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’ has taken a massive opening at the box office. The makers have officially announced that the film has grossed a staggering Rs 83 crore from its first day of worldwide theatrical run. The Trivikram Srinivas directorial got released across the world on January 12. In US, it released a day prior to that. The film also had a simultaneous Malayalam dubbed version release.

‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’ is facing good competition from the other Sankranti release, ‘Sarileru Neekevvaru’ (SN) starring Mahesh Babu. As per the makers of SN, the film has a business of Rs 103 crore from its first three days.

‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’ is jointly produced by S Radhakrishna and Allu Aravind under the banners of Geetha Arts and Haarika & Hassine Creations. It high pre-release expectations and fortunately, the film lived up to the hype. Majority have rated it as a proper entertainer for the festive season. Families are thronging theatres in large numbers to enjoy the film during the holidays.

Trivikram’s neat writing, Allu Arjun’s swashbuckling performance and Thaman’s music are the biggest highlights of the film. It has a stellar star cast, which includes two female leads in Pooja Hegde and Nivetha Pethuraj. Samuthirakani, Tabu, Jayaram, Sushanth, Navdeep, Sathyaraj, Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore, Brahmaji and Sunil play other major roles.