Housefull 5 Box Office Collection Day 5 Worldwide & India: Akshay Kumar’s whodunit comedy earns Rs 116.6 cr; beats Sky Force, Holiday

Housefull 5 has beaten Sajid-Farhad’s Housefull 3, which earned Rs 109.14 crore in 2016, as well as Sajid Khan’s Housefull 2, which collected Rs 106 crore in 2012, and turned out to be Kumar’s maiden Rs 100 crore hit. Since then, he has delivered 12 films which made it to the Rs 100 crore club — Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore (2012), Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014), Housefull 3, Rustom (2016), Toilet – Ek Prem Katha (2017), Gold, 2.0 (2018), Kesari (2019), Mission Mangal (2019), Housefull 4 (2019), and Good Newwz (Rs 205.14 crore), and now, Housefull 5. It has also surpassed the lifetime collection of Holiday (Rs 112.45 crore) and Sky Force (Rs 112.75 crore). Housefull 5 also seems to have benefitted from its two versions (A and B) that have been released in cinemas simultaneously. The ending and the killer are different in each version.

Housefull 5, which enjoyed a solo Hindi release last week, has one more week to go before it faces fresh competition from RS Prasanna’s coming-of-age sports comedy Sitaare Zameen Par, starring Aamir Khan. Produced by the actor, it’s a spiritual sequel to his 2008 directorial debut Taare Zameen Par. Interestingly, that film also clashed with another Kumar blockbuster, Anees Bazmee’s action comedy Singh Is Kinng.

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Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala’s production banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the film has been directed by Tarun Mansukhani of Dostana fame. Nadiadwala has also written the story and screenplay of Housefull 5. Also featuring Sonam Bajwa, Nargis Fakhri, Soundarya Sharma, Jackie Shroff, Riteish Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan and Sanjay Dutt among others. Housefull franchise kicked off in 2010 with the first instalment helmed by Sajid Khan, which made Rs 75 crore at the domestic box office.