Mumbai, Feb 9: Filmmaker Abbas-Mustan’s action thriller Race 2 becomes the
first film of 2013 to enter Rs 100 crore club by grossing Rs. 100.45
crore. The movie made at a budget of Rs 60 crore was released on January
25 worldwide and has now collected Rs 100.45 crore in two weeks of its
release.
Trade analyst, Taran Adarsh tweeted saying: "Race2
collected approx Rs. 24.35 cr nett in Week 2. Grand total: approx Rs. 100.45 cr nett". Made on big budget of Rs
60 crore, the film had collected Rs 79 crore in the domestic box-office".
'Race 2’ made 76.1 crore in the first week and made 24 crore
in its second week. Gradually, the film collection decreased but comparing to
the six movies released thereafter, ‘Race 2’ was the first priority for the
audience.
‘Race 2’ is the sequel to 2008 blockbuster ‘Race’ starring Saif
Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham
and
Ameesha Patel in the lead role. Anil Kapoor reprise the role of the cop
and Ameesh Patel replaced Sameera Reddy to play Anil's assistant.
'Race
2' rides high on emotions and style. The high octane thriller has many
twists and turns. This is the first time in which John Abraham and Saif Ali Khan
paired together. Deepika Padukone played Saif's ladylove in the movie.
The lead actress of the original Bipasha Basu also had a small role to
play. The sequel starts from where the first part ended.
Though critics rated the movie average, audience gave thumps-up to it.
The movie opened excellently collecting
15.10 cr nett on its first day of release and raked in Rs 35 crore
within two days of the release at the box office. And, within one week
of its release, the multi-starrer film had collected Rs 79 crore at the
domestic box-office. On the 8th day of release, the film crossed 100 cr
nett worldwide.
The collection of Race 2 declined by
50-60 percent in the second week, but it was still better than other new
releases. The film maintained a steady pace during the weekdays despite
new releases in the second week. Last week, six new movies hit the
theatres, but “Race 2″ had the highest number of audience.
However, Race 2 got benefit of the
controversies that happened to Kamal Haasan starrer Vishawroopam and it
did not face any competition with other movie releases.
The film is expected to finish with
110-120 cr nett in its lifetime collections and worldwide collection is
expected to end up with 160-170 cr nett. This is a very good result for
the film.infact a Blockbuster, 2013 starts of with a great Note with Race 2 success
Race 2 collects 100.45 crores in just 2 week run, here is Day wise collections 1)15.12c + 2)20.72c + 3)15.51c + 4)7.5c + 5)6.5c + 6)5.75c + 7)5c + 8)3.5c + 9)5.5c + 10)6.5c + 11)2.5c + 12)2.25c + 13)2c + 14)1.80c = 100.45cr
Ameesha, who is all praise for her director and producer of the film
Susi Ganesh, feels, “Susi is a brilliant director and producer. I am
pretty sure both our characters will be loved by all. Neil is a
brilliant actor and his role in the film will be his next Johnny
Gaddaar, people will love him in the film.”
Shortcut Romeo is almost complete with just 10 days of shooting remaining.A close source adds, “The teams is very excited and have planned big
promotional activities and hope that the film will be loved by all.
Ameesha and Neil along with Pooja Gupta will all come together for the
first time on screen.”
Talking about her role in the film Ameesha says, “Well nowadays
it’s better to play a negative role than to be a simple lover. Post
Humraaz, I am very excited to play a role like this. The entire team has
worked hard on the film and hoping audiences will appreciate our hard
work.”
Shortcut Romeo is slated to release in June 2013.
