Housefull 5 box office collection day 5: Akshay Kumar’s whodunit comedy beats Gold, Housefull 2 and 3; inches closer to surpassing Holiday, Sky Force | Bollywood News
After struggling for years to score a hit, Akshay Kumar finally seems to be on the right path with Tarun Mansukhani’s whodunit comedy Housefull 5, in which he leads an ensemble of 20 actors. Kumar’s last success was Sky Force earlier this year, but Housefull 5 is likely to surpass its lifetime collection in a week. On Tuesday, Housefull 5 earned Rs 10.75 crore across both its A and B versions, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. This was a minor dip from its Monday earnings of Rs 13 crore. However, sustaining double digits after day 3 has allowed Housefull 5 to pass the crucial Monday test.
Over its opening weekend, the film earned Rs 24 crore, Rs 31 crore, and Rs 32.5 crore on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, respectively. As per Sacnilk, the current box office collection of Housefull 5 in India stands at Rs 111.25 crore. In the process, it has beaten the lifetime domestic collection of Kumar’s 2018 period sports drama Gold, directed Reema Kagti, which concluded at Rs 104.72 crore. Housefull 5 has also crossed the collections of two previous instalments of the comedy franchise.
Housefull 5 has beaten Sajid-Farhad’s Housefull 3, which earned Rs 109.14 crore in 2016, as well as Sajid Khan’s Housefull 2, which collected Rs 106 crore in 2012, and turned out to be Kumar’s maiden Rs 100 crore hit. Since then, he has delivered 12 films which made it to the Rs 100 crore club — Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore (2012), Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014), Housefull 3, Rustom (2016), Toilet – Ek Prem Katha (2017), Gold, 2.0 (2018), Kesari (2019), Mission Mangal (2019), Housefull 4 (2019), and Good Newwz (Rs 205.14 crore), and now, Hosuefull 5.
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Given its current trajectory, Housefull 5 is most likely to beat the lifetime collection of Holiday (Rs 112.45 crore) and Sky Force (Rs 112.75 crore) today on its sixth day at the box office. Housefull 5 also seems to have benefitted from its two versions (A and B) that have been released in cinemas simultaneously. The ending and the killer are different in each version.
Housefull 5, which enjoyed a solo Hindi release last week, has one more week to go before it faces fresh competition from RS Prasanna’s coming-of-age sports comedy Sitaare Zameen Par, starring Aamir Khan. Produced the actor, it’s a spiritual sequel to his 2008 directorial debut Taare Zameen Par. Interestingly, that film also clashed with another Kumar blockbuster, Anees Bazmee’s action comedy Singh Is Kinng.
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Produced Sajid Nadiadwala’s production banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the film has been directed Tarun Mansukhani of Dostana fame. Nadiadwala has also written the story and screenplay of Housefull 5. Also featuring Sonam Bajwa, Nargis Fakhri, Soundarya Sharma, Jackie Shroff, Riteish Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan and Sanjay Dutt among others. Housefull franchise kicked off in 2010 with the first instalment helmed Sajid Khan, which made Rs 75 crore at the domestic box office.
