BO Report: ‘Gold’ becomes the third highest opening day film of 2018

Excel Entertainment’s ‘Gold’ took a great start at the box office on Independence Day yesterday. The film has registered Rs 25.25 crores on its day one.

The early response to the film has been phenomenal, with ‘Gold’ witnessing a strong run in major mass centres. The film has become the highest opener for Akshay Kumar surpassing his films like ‘Housefull 3’, ‘Rustom’ and ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’. The film has taken the third spot in the highest opening day list while beating ‘Baaghi 2’ and ‘Satyameva Jayate’.

‘Gold’ shared its release date with ‘Satyamev Jayate’, however, the Akshay Kumar starrer is leading ahead of the John Abraham starrer.

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The film experienced a strong trend in Delhi / UP, East Punjab, Mumbai, Jaipur, Lucknow, Ludhiana and Patna where it is far ahead of ‘Satyamev Jayate’. In centres like CP Berar, Nizam / Andhra, Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Bokaro, Ratlam and Sangli, ‘Gold’ showed an outstanding trend at the cash counters.

The high on content film which released on the Independence Day weekend has been receiving accolades from film critics and audience alike. Owing to the exceptional word of mouth and power packed performances by Akshay Kumar, Mouni Roy, Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Sunny Kaushal and Vineet Kumar Singh.

Hitting the right notes, the first collaboration between producers Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar with Akshay Kumar is witnessing a successful run at the box office. With such a superior trend, Reema Kagti directorial ‘Gold’ has become Akshay Kumar’s highest Independence day opener.

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