‘Bohurupi’ takes the lead in Box Office; Take a look at the BO collections of Bengali films released in this Durga Puja

Amidst state-wide protests over RG Kar rape-murder incident, Bengal celebrated Durga Puja this year. Despite a trying time in the entertainment industry, three Bengali films released in theatres during the festive season. Those three Bengali films are – Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy’s ‘Bohurupi’, Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Tekka’ and Pathikrit Basu’s ‘Shastri’. Take a look at how they are doing in the Box Office.

‘Bohurupi’ has taken the lead in the chart of Box Office collections as per the numbers. According to Sacnilk, the Shibu-Nandita directorial is close to earning 5 crores worldwide after a week of its theatrical run. The Abir Chatterjee, Ritabhari Chakraborty, Koushani Mukherjee and Shiboprosad Mukherjee starrer film has so far churned 4.26 crores in the Bengal BO alone, and it still is pulling audience to the theatres and expecting

to increase the numbers by the end of this week.

‘Tekka’, helmed by Srijit Mukherji, has held the second position with a Box Office income of almost 3 crores worldwide. As per Sacnilk, in Bengal alone, the Dev, Rukmini Maitra and Swastika Mukherjee starrer thriller has managed to collect 2.59 crores. Srijit has been delivering commercially successful movies during Durga Puja for over a decade now. This year isn't an exception for the ace filmmaker of Tollywood and he again has managed to hit the bull’s eye with ‘Tekka’.

‘Shastri’, the film directed by ‘Dabaru’ fame Pathikrit Basu is a bit away from touching the BO income of 1 crore worldwide. In the Bengal Box Office, the Mithun Chakraborty starrer film has earned over 67 lakhs. Apart from Mithun Chakraborty, ‘Shastri’ stars Debasree Roy, Soham Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Sauraseni Maitra, Rajatava Dutta, Anirban Chakrabarti, Kaushik Sen and others.