Aamir Khan’s Dangal is not showing any signs to slowing down at the Chinese box office. The film is setting new benchmarks in China rather. Here’s proof. Aamir Khan’s Dangal released across 9,000 theatres in China earlier this month and has already made over Rs. 450 crores, reported trade analyst Taran Adarsh. This week marks Dangal’s second week run at the theatres and the blockbuster wrestling drama is in no mood to slow down. Dangal kicked started its second week in the Chinese theatres with a score of almost Rs. 8 crores on Monday. Dangal has an incredible second Monday in China. Refuses to slow down. All set for Rs. 500 crores.
While globally India and China are often pitted against each other across many spheres, and especially when it comes to the potential as well as the power of their domestic markets, there are also many parallels between the two countries. It is here, in the midst of the cultural similarities between India and China be it the family system or the stress on education where Aamir Khan’s films have managed to hit the sweet spot, both critically as well commercially.
Dangal released in India during Christmas last year, when the fate of the film was still being anticipated by trade analysts and the makers. Just a day ahead of Dangal hit theatres, Aamir Khan, who confessed to being extremely nervous, he said ‘Numbers do not matter to me, neither do awards. The audience liking my film is equivalent to winning an award for me.’
This year, Dangal opened the Beijing Film Festival in China and later released as Shuai Jiao Baba, which translates in English as ‘Let’s Wrestle, Dad.’ Aamir Khan co-stars with Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra and TV star Sakshi Tanwar in Dangal, which is directed by Nitesh Tiwari and based on Haryanvi wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat.