JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM is a HIT film as it heads towards an extended first week total of 52-53 crore nett. This is similar to the lifetime totals of films like DEADPOOL 2 and BLACK PANTHER. The weekdays are holding up well for the film with Monday being around 40% down from Friday. The film will get hit with the release of RACE 3 on Friday but it will manage to get some screenings and will easily cross 60 crore nett and probably emerge as the 7th or 8th highest Hollywood grosser in India.

The collections of JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM till date are as follows.
Thursday - 5,50,00,000 apprx
Friday - 7,00,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 11,50,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 13,25,00,000 apprx
Monday - 4,25,00,000
Tuesday - 4,00,00,000
TOTAL - 45,50,00,000 apprx

KAALA will suffer huge losses everywhere as collections dropped to low levels on Monday. It will close the first week out at around 90 crore nett plus but its lifetime business will not be much higher than the first week of KABALI, the last film Rajinikanth. The losses will be around 35-40 crore to distributors in South India.

The collections of KAALA till date across India are as follows. (All Languages)
Thursday - 20,00,00,000 apprx
Friday - 14,00,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 14,50,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 16,00,00,000 apprx
Monday - 8,50,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 73,00,00,000 apprx

The Rajinikanth starrer KAALA is finding it tough going at the box office with collections that are not upto the mark. The film has collected 50 crore nett apprx in all languages across India in three days and that may look a strong enough number but its too low for the prices paid by distributors.

The Hindi version was never going to collect much and that has turned out to be the case with collections which will go to 4.50-5 crore nett for its extended weekend four day weekend. The main problem is down South. It fetched around 30 crore in Nizam/Andhra and the collections in three days are a bit of a disaster with distributor share being just 8 crore apprx which makes it impossible to even get close to recovering 30 crore.

The all India collections of KAALA till date are as follows,
Thursday - 20,00,00,000 apprx
Friday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 50,00,00,000 apprx

Tamil Nadu which is the home market for the film is also struggling as it fetched a price of nearly 60 crore in that market and its extended four day weekend nett collections will finish in the 40-42 crore nett region which means a distributor share of 28-29 crore.

The comparison which tells all is that the last Rajinikanth film KABALI had an opening day all India GROSS of 52 crore while KAALA is half of that with around 26 crore GROSS on its opening day.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM had a fair opening with first day collections around the 5.75-6 crore nett mark. The opening is not huge compared with recent Hollywood releases with AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR breaking all records and even DEADPOOL 2 opening close to the 10 crore nett mark.

The original JURASSIC PARK released in 1994 was the first huge blockbuster in India from Hollywood as it became the fifth or sixth highest grossing film that year if we include Hindi films. JURASSIC WORLD released in 2015 did well as it grossed close to 90 crore nett and that film started at around 4.25 crore nett with a Thursday release like JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM.

It will be very difficult for JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM to repeat the feat of JURASSIC WORLD but the four day weekend should be decent as families should come on Saturday and Sunday.

KAALA fared poorly in Hindi with collections looking to reach 1 crore nett depending on where the final business in Mumbai comes in and it is that circuit which has done the bulk of the business for the film. The rest of the Hindi markets are very dull with hardly any collections.

The last Rajinikanth film KABALI had opened well in Hindi with collections of 3.50 crore nett but that film seemed to have more mass appeal while the promos of this film give it a more darker feel. The film will not do well in its Hindi format.

KAALA opened best in its home market of Tamil Nadu but even there the film struggled eventually as its not what the huge following of Rajinikanth will expect from his films.