Rajamouli’s ‘ Baahubaali -the beginning’ massive release bombs in Chinese box office

July 26, 2016 | Published by : Avinash Nandakumar

Beijing July 26:Emerging as a profitable market for Indian films ,Baahubali is all set to reap gold in the communist country .The film opened in 6,000 screens across China, and as per reports, had already done box office business of around $ 0.63 million there.

While Indian films have been popular there since the times of Raj Kapoor’s Awara, in 1951, in the past few years, films like 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3 and PK have alo got substantial business from Chinese audience.

Baahubali: The Beginning” was released in theatres around the world on July 10, 2015 and made record breaking collection everywhere.

Leading Chinese distribution house E Stars Films, which has bagged the theatrical rights of “Baahubali: The Beginning,” had massive promotion for the film for over a month in the country.

This publicity helped the film record decent advance booking everywhere.

The movie was released in around 6,000 screens across the country.

“Baahubali: The Beginning” opened to decent response and collected approximately $0.12 million at the China box office on the first day.

The movie got a positive response from the audience and the word of mouth took its business upwards on Saturday.

A viewer named Balakrishna M tweeted, “Finally watched on Big screen @BaahubaliMovie!! 80% occupancy in a Beijing downtown cinema, thats a great signl!”

Early trends show that “Baahubali: The Beginning” has shown further growth on Sunday and its collection is expected to cross the $1-million mark in the opening weekend. Its ratings are much higher than a Jackie Chan’s film.

Luka wu ‏tweeted, “#Baahubali weibo movie rate from 7.1 now raise up to 7.7 even higher than jacky chan movie ”

#Baahubali weibo movie rate from 7.1 now raise up to 7.7 👍 even higher than jacky chan movie 👍 pic.twitter.com/QSQcJeg3Vm
— Luka wu (@LukaTaipei) July 22, 2016

Tags: #Baahubali, #Chineseboxoffice, #Rajamouli