For Housefull 5 to keep its pace intact for Rs. 200 crores lifetime, it was pretty much required that on Saturday it not just grows well but also score a double digit number (or at least come really close to that). Well, this is what happened as after bringing in Rs. 6.60 crores on Friday, the film jumped by more than 50% on Saturday. As a result, Rs. 10.21 crores came in.
The film could have possibly collected a bit more as well as it had seemed that there was zero competition around it. Well, though from Bollywood there was no new release, there was some unexpected diversion with three Hollywood films belonging to different genres arriving together. As a result, at least Rs. 1-2 crores lesser numbers came in for the “killer comedy”.
Nonetheless, the film stays on to be the highest collecting film by a distance and stays on to be the first choice of cinegoers, especially when it comes to the mass centres. The film has done well enough to now touch Rs. 150.39 crores mark and today it will not just go past the Rs. 160 crores mark but also add a couple of crores more. While the lifetime collections of Akshay Kumar’s OMG 2 (Rs. 150.17 crores) has already been surpassed, today it will also cross Kesari (Rs. 154.42 crores). Meanwhile, by tomorrow the film will also cross Rs. 164.38 crores lifetime number of Sajid Nadiadwala’s blockbuster success Baaghi 2.
Note: All collections as per various box office sources