Salman Khan’s film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, two years after releasing in India, got off to a flying start in China by making Rs180 million (Dh10.11 million).
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is about a man who reunites a Pakistani girl lost in India with her family by crossing the border between the two hostile countries.
The movie — Khan’s first ever to release in China where Aamir Khan’s entertainers are the biggest Bollywood attractions — released in Beijing on Friday.
According to Chinese box office, Bajrangi Bhaijaan has beaten the first day collections of Aamir’s Dangal in China. However, it fell well short of Aamir’s last release in China, Secret Superstar, which made Rs400 million on its opening day in the country.
Overall, Dangal earned more than Rs10 billion in China and became the highest-grossing Indian movie in the Middle Kingdom where craze for Bollywood films is growing. Secret Superstar collected well over Rs7.5 billion.
As of Saturday afternoon, Bajrangi Bhaijaan had already crossed Rs250 million on Saturday and received very good response.
“India has always been about style, the story reveals the human nature of the true good, the world peace. Worth promoting,” Lareina Yang, a user, wrote on Chinese ticketing website Maoyan.
