Chhaava box office collection day 30: With no major competition in sight, Laxman Utekar’s historical action film Chhaava continues to dominate the domestic box office. The film, starring Vicky Kaushal in the lead role, has completed a month in theatres. In the historic 30-day run, it has broken several records and outperformed multiple recent blockbusters, cementing its position in the history of the Indian box office.
On its 30th day, Chhaava added another Rs 8 crore to its domestic haul. The performance on Saturday was marginally higher than that of Friday, when Chhaava collected Rs 7.25 crore on the occasion of Holi. On Saturday, the Hindi version of the film earned the lion’s share with Rs 7.35 crore, and its dubbed Telugu version contributed Rs 0.65 crore. Thus, the current domestic box office collection of Chaava stands at Rs 554.75 crore (Rs 541.55 crore Hindi + Rs 13.2 crore Telugu) after 30 days, as per Sacnilk.
In the process, Chhaava has now surpassed the domestic box office collection of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s 2023 blockbuster family crime drama Animal, which was headlined by Vicky’s Sanju and Love & War co-star Ranbir Kapoor. Animal had earned Rs 553.87 crore in its theatrical run across all five languages (Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam). This milestone comes a day after Chhaava broke the domestic box office record set by Siddharth Anand’s 2023 spy thriller Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan. It had earned Rs 543.09 crore during its run.
With its Saturday collection, Chhaava has not only crossed the Rs 550 crore mark, but also established itself as the eighth highest grossing film ever at the Indian box office — all within a span of 30 days. It has held on its momentous run despite fresh competition from Shivam Nair’s The Diplomat, starring John Abraham, which earned Rs 4 crore on Friday and Rs 4.5 crore on Saturday, resulting in Rs 8.5 crore collection at the domestic box office so far. In comparison, Chhaava earned almost twice that of The Diplomat in the last two days.
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Chhaava will face a formidable competitor only at the end of this month, in AR Murugadoss’ action drama Sikandar, starring Salman Khan and Rashmika Mandanna, who also plays the leading lady in Chhaava. That film will release on the occasion of Eid, which has been Salman’s home ground for years. With the next 15 days in its favour, Chhaava can add many more crores to its box office haul. Its next target is to become the seventh highest grosser of all time at the domestic box office. For the same, it’ll have to dethrone Amar Kaushik’s blockbuster horror comedy from last year, Stree 2.
The Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer sits at Rs 597.99 crore. Interestingly, it was backed by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films, which also backed Chhaava. Chaava also stars Akshaye Khanna, Vineet Kumar Singh, Divya Dutta, and Diana Penty, among others.
