It’s ‘Sunny’ shining at Indian box-office! At Rs 90 cr, ‘Gadar 2’ has highest 2nd-week collections, surpassea ‘War’, ‘Pathaan’ & ‘Dangal’

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After Shah Rukh Khan’s espionage thriller ‘Pathaan’ ended the dry spell for Bollywood in January this year, raking in Rs 1000 crore at the worldwide box-office, another popular star from the 1990s, Sunny Deol, is back with a bang at the box-office! Deol’s comeback venture ‘Gadar 2’ has proved to be a box-office phenomenon. According to a report by the Indian box-office tracking portal Sacnilk.com, the period drama crossed Rs 375 crore at the Indian box-office. Worldwide, the movie collected about Rs 442 crore.

Reviewer and industry tracker Taran Adarsh stated that the Sunny Deol-Ameesha Patel starrer is now the film with the highest second-weekend collections. The film collected a whopping Rs 90.47 crore. With this impressive figure, the movie has raced past ahead of bigwigs such as ‘Pathaan’, ‘Baahubali 2’, ‘KGF 2’, ‘Dangal’ ‘War’ &‘Sanju’. “#Gadar2 goes on a RAMPAGE, creates HISTORY in Weekend 2… Yes, it’s the HIGHEST *Weekend 2* of #Hindi cinema… The COLOSSAL weekend numbers are a NEW BENCHMARK… ALL TIME BLOCKBUSTER… [Week 2] Fri 20.50 cr, Sat 31.07 cr, Sun 38.90 cr. Total: ₹ 375.10 cr,” wrote Adarsh. ‘Gadar 2’ is a direct sequel to the 2001 blockbuster 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'. Both movies star Patel, Deol, and Utkarsh Sharma.

In spite of facing huge competition — the box-office Titan ‘Gadar 2’, the Akshay Kumar-Pankaj Tripathi-Yami Gautam starrer has shone at the box-office. According to a report shared by Adarsh, the movie has earned an impressive Rs 113.67 crore at the box-office. The film is a sequel to the 2012 satire-drama ‘OMG’. Kumar steps into the shoes of Lord Shiva this time around. The movie explores the taboo topic of normalising sex education among