Also: ‘The Jungle Book’ roars at the BOX OFFICE; Mints Rs.74.08 crore in opening week
Hollywood filmmaker Jon Favreau’s 3D live-animation adventure fantasy film “The Jungle Book” is running strong. The film released in India in four different languages (English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu), brings a story straight from the enchanting forest of India and presents a modern take on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless classic, originally published in 1894.
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Week 1 saw the movie collect Rs 74.63 crores in India, and last Friday the number elevated to 82.65 Crores by including 8th day numbers. This is a record. It is the HIGHEST 8th day collection for any Hollywood movie ever. And also the BIGGEST second Friday for any movie released in 2016 in India. The thing to note here is that Mowgli has beaten all the Avengers from Marvel universe with these numbers. Within one week The Jungle Book has crossed the lifetime number of the film Avengers: Age Of Ultron, which was only able to collect Rs 73 Crores by the third week.
As per the reports Taran Adarsh gave an exact picture of the box office collection of the Jungle Book:
https://twitter.com/taran_adarsh/status/721203693551353856
Trade Analyst, Taran Adarsh wrote on Twitter, ''Looking at the current trends, #TheJungleBook is expected to cross ₹ 100 cr nett biz in its Weekend 2 itself. India biz.''
Bollywood stars likes Irrfan Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Nana Patekar, Shefali Shah and Om Puri have lent their voice for the Hindi version of “The Jungle Book”.
‘The Jungle Book’ takes box office by storm; Mints Rs 40.19 crore in three days!