Mumbai: Karan Singh Tyagi’s courtroom historic drama Kesari Chapter 2 has crossed the ₹55 crore threshold at the box office worldwide. According to a leading industry tracker, the film starring Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan, and Ananya Panday has collected ₹56.60 crore in four days of release. This means the film has gone up a rung and beaten the lifetime haul of Shahid Kapoor’s Deva.
Meanwhile, Jaat has earned Rs. 3.55 Cr on day 12 which helped the movie to enter into Rs. 100 Cr club making the total or worldwide collection standing at Rs. 102.25 Cr as of day 12. The movie’s worldwide collection on day 12 is significantly lower than day 11 when it collected Rs. 6.20 Cr at the worldwide box office. On day 13, i.e., 2nd Tuesday, Jaat is expected to earn around Rs. 2-3 Cr at the worldwide box office, which will make the total collection standing at Rs. 104.25-105.25 Cr.’
The trade website reports that Kesari Chapter 2 collected ₹34 crore net and ₹40.60 crore gross in India after its release on April 18. It brought in ₹16 crore from overseas, taking the total four-day collection to ₹56.60 crore. After beating Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency, these numbers mean Kesari Chapter 2 beat Shahid Kapoor’s Deva, which collected ₹55.8 crore worldwide in its lifetime. The film now has Jaat, Akshay’s previous film, Sky Force, Sikandar and Chhaava to contend with.
Akshay described Kesari Chapter 2 on his Instagram, writing, “You must have heard many stories, but this is a storm. This story of Shankaran Nair shocked me because we didn’t know someone dragged the entire British umpire to court after the Jallianwala Bagh genocide. Kesari Chapter 2 movie, I am doing not just as an artist but as an Indian. It’s not just a movie… It’s an incomplete calculation, it’s a painful memory… And finally — it’s fair. Kesari Chapter 2 now in cinemas near you.”
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