Pathaan film is a 2023 Hindi-language action thriller film that was produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films. And it is directed by Siddharth Anand. Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and John Abraham appear in the fourth instalment of the YRF Spy Universe, which also stars Dimple Kapadia and Ashutosh Rana. The movie is about Pathaan, an exiled RAW agent who must team up with ISI agent Rubina to bring down Jim, a former RAW agent-turned-traitor who is preparing to spread a lethal lab-generated virus throughout India. It was written by Shridhar Raghavan and Abbas Tyrewala from a screenplay by Anand.
As the collections remained fairly consistent, it was again another enormous day for Pathaan. Even though it is the seventh day of the movie and right in the middle of the week, Brahmastra aside, the collections are still higher than the first day of every other Bollywood release in 2022. It essentially demonstrates the kind of dominance that the Shah Rukh Khan-starring film has experienced since its debut. And it also foreshadows the numerous records that will be broken in the ensuing weeks.
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On Wednesday, the movie brought in 18.25 crores, which is an amazing sum in and of itself. The good news is that more than 80% of the collections for the movie come from current bookings. Thus it is no longer dependent on advance booking. This demonstrates that the movie has been really well received by the audience. And that sales are not being driven by tickets that were purchased in advance many days earlier. The Yash Raj production’s airing on more than 5000 screens means that there is no capacity issue. Audiences can find enough of seats, and the collections are still on track to be blockbusters by day’s end.
Pathaan has now brought in 348.50 crores, which is even another record accomplishment given that it was completed in just 8 days. Even yet, Dangal (387.38 crores) is the only Bollywood movie to have reached the 350 crore mark. And even then, Saturday, if not Friday itself, will see it eclipsed.
Pathaan’s main photography commenced in Mumbai in November 2020. The movie was filmed in a number of locales throughout India, Afghanistan, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia, Italy, and France. The Vishal-Shekhar pair wrote two songs, and Sanchit and Ankit Balhara composed the music. Padukone appeared in a saffron bikini in the music video for one of the songs, “Besharam Rang,” which sparked complaints from right-wing Hindutva organisations and an attempt to boycott the movie. After a few small adjustments were made to the picture. In addition to some edits to the song sequence, the Central Board of Film Certification approved the movie for release.
