Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif’s Sooryavanshi is unstoppable. The film, which opened in cinemas a day after Diwali, collected ₹ 13.39 on Sunday, taking the total collection to ₹ 151.23 crore, reported trade analyst Taran Adarsh.
Sharing the box office performance of the film in its second week, Taran Adarsh wrote: “#Sooryavanshi [Week 2] crosses ₹ 150 cr… Records EXCELLENT NUMBERS on [second] Sun… If it maintains the consistency on weekdays and Weekend 3, there’s a strong chance of going past ₹ 200 cr mark… Fri 6.83 cr, Sat 10.35 cr, Sun 13.39 cr. Total: ₹ 151.23 cr. #India business.”
Sooryavanshi is directed by Rohit Shetty, who is known for his high-octane action films. The recently-released film also stars Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh in cameo roles. For those who don’t know, Akshay Kumar’s lead character Veer Sooryavanshi was first introduced as an Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officer in a cameo role in Ranveer Singh’s 2018 film Simmba. Ajay Devgn headlined first two films – the Singham series – in Rohit Shetty’s cop universe.
In his review for NDTV, film critic Saibal Chatterjee gave Sooryavanshi two and a half stars and wrote: “For Akshay Kumar, from Bell Bottom to Sooryavanshi, this performance is no more than a hop and a skip from one set to another. His gait, as always, is a veritable stunt in itself: a cross between a model in the middle of a catwalk and a superhero about to take flight. It is aimed at his fans. If it works for them, who are we to carp?”
