'Pathaan' collection touches Rs 980 cr worldwide, expected to continue well despite new competition
New Delhi: The worldwide box office collection of Hindi thriller movie ‘Pathaan’ reached Rs 980 crore in three and a half weeks since its release on January 25.
The movie collection is expected to remain excellent for at least a few weeks more, but is expected to be affected a little by the release of ‘Shehzada’ as well as ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ on Friday, February 17, reports The Indian Express.
Industry tracker Sacnilk has said that ‘Pathaan’ collected approximately Rs 2.50 crore on its Day 24.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh said that the movie collection has been Rs 1.01 crore in national chains on Day 24. He, however, concurred that the new releases would have an impact on the collection as it would reduce the number of screens for ‘Pathaan’.
The ‘Pathaan’ collection is nearly $4 million in the UK and $13 million in the Gulf, as per the Box Office India records. The Tamil and Telugu versions of the movie have collected Rs 17.7 crore, said Adarsh.
Producer of ‘Pathaan’ Yash Raj Films said on Friday that the ticket price for Saturday and Sunday will be Rs 200 at select national chains, while the rate was reduced to Rs 110 on Friday.
Apart from the fact that the audience were getting to watch an SRK movie after a couple of years, ‘Pathaan’s marketing campaigns and positive reviews proved successful in attracting the interest of the audience.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
