Happy New Year box office collection: Shah Rukh Khan’s film beats Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3, collects Rs 44.97 crore on day 1!

 Happy New Year opened to a phenomenal response both at multiplex and single screens across India. The Farah Khan directorial, which has Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah was bound to create history with the kind of occupancy it witnessed right from the first show till the last show yesterday (October 24).

HNY has clocked record-breaking collections on Day 1 and has made a whopping business of over Rs 44.97 crore, thus shattering all previous records attained by any Bollywood film. The film collected Rs 42.62 crore in Hindi, Telugu made Rs 1.43 crore and Tamil version made Rs 0.92 crore. The total domestic collection of the film stands at Rs 44.97 crore.

Though the critics have rated the film averagely, the word of mouth publicity is strong. The film saw nearly 100 % occupancy at most of cinema houses yesterday. A bigger and better weekend is certainly on cards.

Earlier, Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3 held the highest opening day collections of Rs 36 Crore, followed by SRK’s Chennai Express, which made Rs 33.10 crore.

Happy New Year actor Sonu Sood gets police protection

Threat calls from gangsters is what the team of Happy New Year seems have fallen prey to. Earlier we had reported about the incident of firing outside film producer Ali Morani’s house. After that, Shah Rukh Khan and Boman Irani too received threats and they have been given police protection. Now the actor who faced a similar crisis is Sonu Sood.

Sonu Sood who plays a prominent role in the upcoming film Happy New Year is also said to have received threatening messages from the gangster because of which he has requested for police protection. This incident started when Morani received threatening calls and messages from gangster Ravi Pujari and later, a group of unidentified biker men fired four rounds outside his bungalow. After that, reportedly Pujari even tried to get in touch with Shah Rukh Khan through his company Red Chillies Entertainment and sent out a threatening message to the superstar asking him to stay away from Morani. It did not end at that! Later, Boman Irani too seeked the help of the police force after he too received threat calls from Pujari’s men.

In fact, now we hear that the Mumbai Police has decided to provide security to the entire cast and even to those who have received extortion calls and messages from this gangster in the past three years.

Directed by Farah Khan and produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, Happy New Year also stars Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Vivian Shah among others. The film is slated to release on October 23.

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