Hrithik & Tiger starer “WAR” enter the Rs 300 cr club
Bhubaneswar: 2019 has got its first Rs 300 crore club film. Though there have been three double centuries already in the form of Kabir Singh, Uri – The Surgical Strike and Mission Mangal, there was a wait for the first triple century strike this year. This has happened with War, which is now only the eighth Bollywood film (ever since the inception of the Rs 100 crore club) to accomplish this feat.
This happened over the past weekend, when the film managed to hold well all over again and emerge as the top viewed movie across the country. Though there were a dozen Hindi releases that came on Friday, it was the Siddharth Anand-directed film that held the fort and drew audiences in good numbers.
For Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, the leading men of the film, War has been a superb success story and their first entry into the Rs 300 crore club. Hrithik has been around for close to a couple of decades and has given huge money-spinners in the past as well. On the other hand, Tiger has made his place in the industry after delivering multiple successes during the last five years. However the kind of success that both Hrithik and Tiger have now seen is a crowning glory of their career.
Amongst the eight Rs 300 crore club blockbusters that Bollywood has seen ever since PK set the foundation for it, Salman Khan is the reigning champion with as many as three such films in his kitty. Though he doesn’t have any in the top three, lower down he has Tiger Zinda Hai, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Sultan to his credit. Two of these are Yash Raj affairs.
Bollywood movies in the Rs 300 crore club:
#Dangal – Rs 387.38 crore
#Sanju – Rs 342.53 crore
#PK – Rs 340.80 crore
#Tiger Zinda Hai – Rs 339.25 crore
#Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Rs 321 crore
#Padmaavat – Rs 302.15 crore
#War – Rs 301.60 crore
#Sultan – Rs 301.50 crore