According to Sacnilk’s early estimates, ’s Raja Shivaji has collected Rs 6.13 crore on its second Sunday. On day 10, the film successfully ran in theatres with 31.7 per cent occupancy.
If we look at the language-wise breakdown, the Hindi version collected Rs 1.61 crore with 20 per cent occupancy. On the other hand, Raja Shivaji’s Marathi version has minted Rs 4.52 crore on Sunday with 46 per cent occupancy. In the second weekend, Raja Shivaji collected Rs 14.93 crore at the box office.
Raja Shivaji box office collection. (Credit: Instagram)
The total net collection of Raja Shivaji is Rs 67.58 crore, while the gross collection of the film in India is Rs 80.14 crore. Raja Shivaji is inching slowly towards the Rs 100 crore mark. It is going to be a difficult journey for the Riteish Deshmukh-starrer, as May 15 will have big releases such as Pati Patni Aur Woh Do, Aakhri Sawal and Karuppu (May 14) in theatres.
The strong word of mouth in the Marathi-speaking regions has surely worked in favour of Raja Shivaji. In the first week, the film collected Rs 52.65 crore at the box office. Hence, it would be interesting to see how much money the film will mint by the end of this week.
About Raja Shivaji
Raja Shivaji is the most ambitious project of Riteish Deshmukh’s career. The film has powerful cast members like Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Genelia Deshmukh, Sachin Khedekar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Fardeen Khan, Amole Gupte, Boman Irani, Siddharth Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi and others in key roles. Raja Shivaji also has Salman Khan in the role of Jiva Mahale. He has done a cameo in the film.
Riteish Deshmukh had been working on this project for more than 20 years. Genelia and Jyoti Deshpande produced the bilingual film under Mumbai Film Company and Jio Studios, respectively.