'Bang Bang' blasts its way into top 5 openings of all time with 27.54 crore on 1st day

Mumbai: It’s a great start to the weekend for the ‘Bang Bang’ team, Hrithik Roshan records the biggest opening of his career; Katrina Kaif now has three movies in the top 5 films with the biggest openings of all time.

Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif's action romance, ‘Bang Bang’, has created history. The makers claim that the Siddharth Anand director film, has collected 27.54 crore net at the Indian box office and has shot its way into the top 5 movie openings of all time in Bollywood. Now the top 5 openers are as follows – ‘Dhoom 3’, ‘Chennai Express’, ‘Ek Tha Tiger’, ‘Singham Returns’ and ‘Bang Bang’.

’Bang Bang’ is riding high on incredibly positive word of mouth from the audience. The film marks Hrithik's biggest opening of his career. This means Katrina Kaif now has three out of five films in the highest opening of all time - a feat that none of the other actresses in Bollywood have.

With never-seen-before action sequences, Hrithik and Katrina looking absolutely stunning together, super-hit music, Hrithik back to dancing - the hottest film of 2014 was expected to take a humongous start the box office and it did. ‘Bang Bang’ opened across the country at 90 percent occupancy and continued its glorious run at the counters through the day.