Mumbai (AFP) - Bollywood action
thriller "Dhoom 3", starring Aamir Khan, has smashed box office records
to become the highest grossing Indian film of all time, according to
industry experts Tuesday.
The
third film in the Dhoom franchise, which has been likened to Hollywood's
"Fast and Furious", is the first Indian film to cross the five-billion
rupee mark ($80 million) in gross revenues around the world, according
to its production house Yash Raj Films.
The
group said late Monday that the cop caper had grossed 5.01 billion
rupees, and trade experts confirmed it had surpassed the previous
highest-grossing Bollywood film, a title recently clinched by Shah Rukh
Khan's "Chennai Express".
"Dhoom 3 is the number one Bollywood film worldwide," said Vajir Singh, editor of Box Office India.
Unlike
in Hollywood, there is no central data management service for box
office collections in India, which can lead to a discrepancy in figures.
Single
screen ticket sales remain uncomputerised and while multiplex
collections are computerised, they are not linked on one network, so
gross collection figures are usually supplied by the distributor.
Singh
attributed the success of the "Dhoom 3" partly to the "star appeal" of
Aamir Khan, whose earlier 2010 film "3 Idiots" held the highest-grossing
record for more than three years.
"Dhoom
3", directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and also starring Abhishek
Bachchan and Katrina Kaif, is set largely in Chicago and tells the story
of an Indian cop, his sidekick and their latest adversary, an
illusionist played by Khan.
"It's
huge and this record won’t be easy to break anytime soon," said trade
analyst Komal Nahta of the success of the film, which was released on
December 20 and has been shown at more than 4,400 screens in India and
750 screens abroad.
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