Box Office: Rajinikanth, Aamir Khan's Coolie Hindi Opening Weekend Collection

Mumbai, August 18 - Superstar Rajinikanth's gangster action drama Coolie, also featuring Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan in a cameo role, has had a decent opening weekend at the Hindi box office, where it has competed with YRF's War 2, and strong holdover Mahavatar Narsimha.

Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, Coolie has been the best-promoted Kollywood title in North India in recent times, yet the results are not as expected. After opening with 4.50 crores net collection, the dubbed version showed consistency, but failed to take full advantage of the holiday period.



Dubbed as Coolie: The Powerhouse, the film scored approximately 19.50-19.75 crores net collection over the 4-day extended weekend in Hindi. Currently, it is the 7th highest-grossing Tamil title of all time in the Hindi version. The presence of Aamir Khan was expected to boost Coolie's chances in Hindi, but that didn't happen, due to a clash as well as mixed audience reception.

Depending on how it performs in the coming days, a decent hold from hereon will make this the second biggest Tamil grosser in Hindi, behind 2.0, which scored around 188 crores net. Currently, Kabali is the second biggest grosser with approximately 28 crores net.

Meanwhile, Coolie had a huge first weekend at the worldwide box office with around 385 crores gross in all versions. In India, the movie has minted approximately 230 crores, while overseas collection is an estimated 155 crores in 4 days. As said, the word of mouth is mixed, so it needs to be seen how the film performs during the weekdays.



Here's a look at day-wise collections of Coolie in Hindi -

Thursday - 4.50 crores net approx.

Friday - 6.30 crores net approx.



Saturday - 4.25 crores net approx.

Sunday - 4.65 crores net approx.

Stay tuned...