Samantha is ruling this month’s box office. Her new movie has opened strongly at the box office, received extraordinary reviews, and word of mouth from the audience is very positive. The two days worldwide collections have exceeded the expectations and making distributors and exhibitors happy after a slow post Dussehra season.
On day 1 the movie collected 5 crores across the world, the movie did even better on its day 2 getting 6 crores. This is a rare feat. So, the total collection for the first two days are 11 crores. The same trend is continuing in Tamil Nadu as well, day 2 collections are exceedingly better than day 1.
Telugu version theatrical business was closed at 14 crores. Hence, the movie will collect more than 55% of what is needed for breakeven before Monday. The first weekend is so huge for this thriller, showing Samantha’s box office stamina.
Yashoda collected 3.4 crores gross in Nizam for the first two days, in ceded it got 60 lacs, Andhra area received 2.7 crores, overseas has been the strongest zone for the movie collecting over 3.5 crore gross, rest of India got 0.7 crores. Overall the 11 crores was evenly distributed across territories showing that it is a universal hit.
Many box office analysts are surprised seeing the woman centric movie surpassing movies of tier 2 heroes and senior heroes.
Opening of Yashoda is far better than movies like Thank You, Ghost etc. making the industry that content matters and women centric movies have good market provided the story is good.
Samantha once again iterated that she is a superstar and overseas box office queen. She has now over half dozen 1 million movies to her credit, including the movies she acted as a female lead with Star Heroes.
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