Shah Rukh Khan’s film Pathaan gains enormous success at the box office. Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Yash Raj Films, this spy-thriller movie crossed Rs. 1000 crore worldwide on 21st February since its release. The film starred Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and John Abraham and is slowly moving towards becoming the top Hindi language film in India. They played together for the first time in the film. The movie was released on 25th January 2023, along with the dubbed versions.
In the film, Shah Rukh Khan is played as Pathaan, a RAW field agent, and Salman Khan play an explosive cameo role. The music was composed by Vishal-Shekhar, while Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara composed the score.
Pathaan is still running strongly in theatres in the fourth week of release. It is now chasing several huge collecting movies such as Dangal, The Kashmir Files, KGF: Chapter 2, and many others. It carries fifth position among Indian films crossing the Rs 1000 cr mark worldwide after Dangal (Rs 1968.03 cr), Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (Rs 1747 cr), KGF: Chapter 2 (Rs 1188 cr), and finally RRR (Rs 1174 cr).
Even the film remains unaffected with the newly released Kartik Aaryan’s Shehzada and Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. However, the Marvel film still managed to hold its ground; Shehzada has only managed to collect Rs 22 crore in four days.
Box Office Worldwide has also shared the collection figures: Week1: 351 cr, Week2: 91.50 cr, Week3: 46.65 cr, Week 4 continuing Day 24: 2.15 cr, Day 25: 3.25 cr, Day 26: 4.15 cr, then Day 27: 1.20 cr, and after Day 28: 1.10 cr. So, the Domestic Nett is 500.05 cr, Domestic Gross 625 cr, Overseas 378 cr, and Worldwide Gross 1003 cr.
Despite the protest and demand to boycott the film, Pathaan becomes the highest-grossing Indian film in 2023 till now.
