HICHKI has had an ordinary weekend in China though its done well to get to over $4 million after the start it had. The trend is decent with $750k coming on Friday but Saturday and Sunday doing in the range of $1.75 million. The Chinese market normally falls on Sunday but this was the same as Saturday which gives hope for good holds over the weekdays. It is the eighth highest opening weekend for a Hindi film.

The problem is that DANGAL, SECRET SUPERSTAR, BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN and HINDI MEDIUM scored very well back to back and expectations went up but since then, the numbers have not really come. It will be down to THUGS OF HINDOSTAN to get the big numbers which has Aamir Khan who is the only Indian actor with a draw in China. There was an attempt to release this film simultaneously with India but the Chinese distributors call the shots and it won't happen. It could see a release in late November though that is not certain and depends on the local distributors.

As for HICHKI it will be about Monday and the target is probably to try and push over that $10 million mark. SECRET SUPERSTAR, HINDI MEDIUM and DANGAL remain the top three openers and all topped the $10 million mark for the weekend with the first named going over $20 million.

The top ten opening weekends in China of Indian films are as follows. The number of shows over the weekend are in brackets.
1. Secret Superstar - $27,180,510 (181,796)
2. Hindi Medium - $15,771,827 (146,889)
3. Dangal - $12,512,356 (98,814)
4. Toilet - Ek Prem Katha - $9,096,164 (168,023)
5. Bajrangi Bhaijaan - $8,503,621 (61,909)
6. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion - $7,684,706 (144,520)
7. PK - $4,654,829 (51,122)
8. Hichki -$4,222,000 (96,350)
9. Dhoom 3 - $1,222,637 (16,405)
10. Baahubali: The Beginning - $616,734 (11,415)