First Week Domestic and International Box Office Collection of 'Chennai Express'

' Chennai Express ' kickstarted on August 9 along with the prime passengers, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and the routes of this express were guided by the director Rohit Shetty . The bogies of the train were filled up with romance and comedy between SRK and Dippy. The movie colorfully mesmerized the viewers with its eternal charm and even expected to treble the screen space of this week's much-hyped grand release, ' Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara! '.

SRK and Deepika starrer witnessed a dream run at domestic box office shattering the records set by earlier blockbusters. The film is setting high standards for the other soon-to-release movies. This rom-com was released on the auspicious Eid eve, following an extended weekend. This factor worked a lot in favor of smooth proceeding ahead of this flick and moreover, the Independence Day occasion again opened the doors of more benefit for the film.

Considering the latest reports, ' Chennai Express ' had crossed the prestigious mark of 156 crore at the domestic box office and it is looking forward to become a toast of 200 crore club. It seems the fast train of ' Chennai Express ' knows no halts at any station and is running with a lightening speed.

Let's have a bird's eye-view on the figures incurred by ' Chennai Express '. The movie started showing positive signals since its preview shows held on August 8, a day prior to its release. It gained 6.75 crore nett from its preview shows, which was considered as the highest collections in previews ever. The single screens proved as power boosters to fuel the collections of the film. On Friday, the film flaunted an outstanding figure of 33.12 crore nett, while on Saturday, it was 28.05 crore nett. Sunday cashed in the golden weekend garnering 32.5 crore nett and Monday promised a great first week start along with the collection of 12.62 crore nett. The movie proudly carved biggest first, second and third day of the release in the history of Hindi cinema. Even, the highest weekend was to the credit of ' Chennai Express '. Tuesday observed the film fetching 11.50 crore nett and Wednesday received 12.56 crore nett collections. 19.60 crore nett was the amount obtained by the film on Thursday, completing the rocking first week collection of 156.70 crore nett. This week was noted as highest first week overriding ETT's 140 crore from nine days.

Having a glance at territory-wise first weekend performance of ' Chennai Express ', the film achieved 34.41 crore in Mumbai, while in Delhi and UP, it gained 18.26 crore. East Punjab saw 6.84 crore collection during the weekend. CP Berar and CP Circuit witnessed 4.84 crore and 3.29 crore respectively. 5.54 crore was the film's collection in Rajasthan district and Mysore observed the movie fetching 6.45 crore. It was 7.09 crore in Nizam and Andra Pradesh, wheareas, Kerala saw film acquiring 0.93 crore. 1.82 crore was the figure incurred by the film during weekend in West Bengal and Bihar gained 0.75 crore. Tamil Nadu saw the film getting 0.95 crore and in Assam, the flick achieved 0.36 crore. The movie made 1.15 crore in Orissa. The total first weekend collections of the film in different parts of India, are 100.42 crore.

The story does not ends here! ' Chennai Express ' was stunning even overseas, especially in the nations like UK, US, Singapore, Pakistan, Gulf and Australia. The magic of SRK and Dippy left the overseas viewers spellbound. The total overseas collections of ' Chennai Express ' can be summed up to 59.75 crore. Therefore, now the total worldwide collections the film had garnered till now are whopping 216.45 crore nett.

' Chennai Express ' is still keeping its speed intact and smoothly progressing to enter the premium club of 200 crore!