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Shah Rukh Khan's Dilwale beats Salman Khan's Prem Ratan Dhan Payo; becomes second highest grosser of 2015

Riding on the success in the international film market, Shah Rukh Khan's Dilwale has become the second highest grosser of 2015

Dilwale has performed really well in the international film market, collecting $25.6 million internationally and has become the second highest grosser of 2015, worldwide grossing more than Rs 365 crore. With that, it has now surpassed the worldwide gross of Salman Khan's Prem Ratan Dhan Payo which raked in around Rs 362 crore across the globe.

Dilwale is the highest collecting film in Singapore (only Bollywood film to cross Singapore $1 million), South Africa, Netherlands, Malaysia (6 times bigger than the last highest grosser), West Indies & Jordan.

Dilwale is also the second highest collecting film of all times in overseas markets such as UAE -GCC (which also had the highest opening weekend for any Bollywood film), Peru, Kuwait, Indonesia, Egypt and Morocco. Some other countries that saw the highest opening weekend for a Bollywood film include Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Pakistan.

Pakistan & Australia saw trends of a different kind, where Dilwale became the 3rd film ever to cross USD 2 million & the first ever SRK film to cross AUD 1 million, respectively. While in UK, which is one of the biggest overseas markets for Bollywood films, it had collections, which were unbelievable. UK crossed GBP 1 million in just 5 days & it was the fourth SRK film to cross GBP 2 million. Only 7 films have done it so far.

Dilwale is now the highest grossing SRK film in the overseas market, Only 16 films so far have crossed $10 million overseas, in which SRK has 9 films, which shows the reach and following he enjoys overseas.

And despite a rather disappointing run at the domestic box office where it could nett only around Rs 140 crore, the film's exceptional reception across the globe has catapulted it to become one of the biggest Bollywood grossers of the year, second only to Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan. If you consider all Indian films, then it's the third highest grosser after Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Rs 630 crore) and Baahubali (Rs 600 crore). Nevertheless, this will surely put a smile back on SRK's face for sure!