Rs 117cr in just 7 days, 'Robot' Rajini smashes all records

MUMBAI: Rajinikanth starrer ‘Endhiran’ has netted a collection of Rs 117 crore, surpassing the first-week collection of Bollywood’s highest first-week grosser ‘Dabangg’ (Rs 82 crore).Distributor and trade analyst Suniel Wadhwa said, ‘‘The film has got a net collection of Rs 60 crore in TN, Rs 30 crore in AP, Rs 8 crore in Karnataka, Rs 4 crore in Kerala and Hindi version Robot Rs 15 crore. Looking at the trend the film has crossed Dabangg’s two weeks net collection in its first week itself.’’‘Endhiran’ opened in 2,200 screensas compared to 1,400 for ‘Dabangg’. An industry source said,‘‘More than one-and-half times extra screens means the revenueearned is nearly four times extra and that is also helping the film. Also about92% of cinema halls are running the film and the collection continue to be rocksteady.’’ The film’s report in the Hindi belt too is quitegood. Distributor Sunil Bohra said, ‘‘The collection of the film inplaces like Jodhpur, Ghaziabad, and Meerut continue to remain steady and thefilm is doing well both in single screen and multiplexes acrossstates.’’Industry sources said since the entertainmenttax structure was different in the south, it is difficult to get the gross boxoffice collection. But they said the film had definitely grossed Rs 260 crorewhich was more than the entire collection of Aamir Khan starrer‘Ghajini’. Bohra said, ‘‘The film has easily made agross collection of Rs 200 crore plus which is nearly double ofDabangg.’’The Hindi version of the film Robot too hasdone a business of nearly Rs 30 crore in the first week. Amod Mehra said,‘‘Robot has broken all the norms of a dubbed film. I don’tremember any dubbed film crossing even the one crore mark.”