Rustom Box Office report: Akshay Kumar starrer enjoys 4th biggest opening of 2016!

Akki rules the box office in spite of the mixed reviews his film has garnered!

Akshay Kumar’s dream run at the box office continues. With movies such as Baby, Airlift and Housefull 3 Akki has been enjoying success at the ticket windows like only he can. Critics acclaim the way in which the ultimate Khiladi of B-town strikes that healthy balance between commerce and creativity. No wonder Akshay Kumar is one of the most bankable stars of B-town! ALSO READ: Is Akshay Kumar more bankable than Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan?

#Rustom starts with a bang… Leads by a big margin… Emerges 4th highest opener of 2016… Fri ₹ 14.11 cr. India biz.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) August 13, 2016

And now with Rustom, Akshay Kumar has once again re-instated his position as the most bankable star in Bollywood. The film, which released on August 12, made an opening collection of Rs 14.11 crore. It has crossed the first-day collections of his first hit of the year – Airlift which made Rs. 12.35 crore. ALSO READ: Rustom vs Mohenjo Daro: Is Hrithik Roshan being sidelined by Bollywood? Or is Akshay Kumar not confident of Rustom, so gathering support?

Highest *DAY 1* of 2016…
1. #Sultan 36.54 cr
2. #Fan 19.20 cr
3. #HF3 15.21 cr
4. #Rustom 14.11 cr
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— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) August 13, 2016

Highest *DAY 1* of 2016…
5. #Airlift 12.35 cr
6. #Baaghi 11.94 cr
7. #Dishoom 11.05 cr
8. #UdtaPunjab 10.05 cr
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— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) August 13, 2016

Interestingly, what’s common to both films is that they are based on a well-documented true events – one, based against the backdrop of the Kuwaiti invasion by Iraq, and the other, a crime of passion famously known as the Nanavati murder case. Quite interestingly, Rustom has fetched remarkable monetary success in spite of getting mixed reviews from  critics and it has become the 4th biggest opener of 2016! Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter to explain the figures in a detailed report.

And as is the case with most of of the Khiladi Kumar’s films, which grows stronger by word-of-mouth, the number of screens for Rustom, which opened in 2100 screens on Thursday, rose by another 200 screens by Friday; the screen count has now gone up to 2300. If that’s not enough, the film has seen a jump in collections from Saturday onwards. The movie is getting tremendous reaction from the gulf as well.

#Rustom is OUTSTANDING in UAE-GCC… Thu AED 1 million, Fri AED 1.3 million. Total: AED 2.3 million [₹ 4.19 cr].

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) August 13, 2016

Rustom is based on the murder that rocked the nation in 1959, which involved a naval officer killing his wife’s paramour. The incident took place in Mumbai, then Bombay. Produced by Vipul K Rawal and directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, Akshay has been lauded for his role has the upright naval officer who commits a crime of passion. Ileana D’Cruz plays his wife and Arjan Bajwa, her lover.