Dangal becomes the highest grossing Bollywood movie in Kerala

Aamir Khan’s latest movie Dangal has been shattering several box office records ever since it released on December 23. The movie took the Indian box office by storm rewriting all pre existing box office records. The movie recently pipped the lifetime collections of PK, the 2014 blockbuster to become the highest grossing Bollywood movie ever.

According to trade sources, the movie has now become the highest grossing Bollywood movie in Kerala
outperforming PK. The movie took a massive opening in Kerala box office touching Rs 20 lakh from the first day itself. It has now created history by emerging as the first Bollywood film to cross the Rs 10 crore mark at the Kerala box office. The previous record was held by PK which had grossed an amount of Rs 9.50 crores from its successful theatrical run in Kerala.

Dangal has already registered Rs 10.50 at the box office within a month of it’s release. It is expected to cross the 12 crore mark soon. Remarkably, Dangal escalated past superstar Rajinikanth’s blockbuster Kabali and Mohanlal’s historic success, Pulimurugan to become the fastest 2 crore grosser from the Kochi multiplexes alone.

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The movie was largely benefited by the cinema strike in Kerala that blocked the release of many Malayalam movies. So Dangal had a free run without any real competition.

Dangal, a sports drama directed by Nitesh Tiwari is based on the real life story of a wrestler from Haryana, Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained his two daughters- Geetha Kumari Phogat and Babita Kumari Phogat to world class wrestlers.

Sakshi Tanwar played Aamir Khan’s wife in the movie while Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sanya Malhotra, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar played the daughters’ parts.