CHANDU CHAMPION BOX OFFICE: KARTIK AARYAN STARRER INCHES TOWARDS RS 50 CRORE MARK
Kartik Aaryan poured his heart, body, mind and soul for his performance as Padma Shri Awardee and India’s first paralympic gold medallist Murlikant Petkar in Kabir Khan’s Chandu Champion. The film which earned Rs 35.25 crore in the first week, is showing a better performance and taking the film to a near 50 crore collection despite facing the heat for 2 weeks old film Munjya.
Chandu entered the second weekend with Friday collection of Rs 2.65 crore, which was a mere 6% jump from its Thursday collection. But on Saturday, the film moved up by 83 % to collect Rs 4.85 crore, and on Sunday as per early estimates by Sacnilk, it minted about Rs 6.50 crore, making it a Rs 14 crore over the weekend. The total collection now stands at Rs 49.25 crore and should cross the Rs 50 crore mark by today itself.
Kartik underwent a significant transformation for the role, reducing his body fat percentage from 39% to just 7% and dropping his weight from 90 kgs to 72 kgs. He also underwent training for swimming for the film as after getting injured in a war sequence in the film, his character is unable to use his legs, but takes up swimming and wins gold for India at the paralympic Olympics.
Next week onwards the competition will get even more intense, with the release of Nag Ashwin’s Kalki 2898 AD starring Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas and Deepika Padukone.