KGF Chapter 2 box office collection Day 5: Yash-starrer is ninth highest grossing Indian film of all time, crosses Rs 625 crore worldwide

Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh wrote on Twitter, “#KGF2 is UNSTOPPABLE… SUPERB HOLD on a working day [Mon]… Eyes ₹ 270 cr [+/-] in *extended Week 1*… Should cross #Dangal *lifetime biz*, if it maintains the pace… Thu 53.95 cr, Fri 46.79 cr, Sat 42.90 cr, Sun 50.35 cr, Mon 25.57 cr. Total: ₹ 219.56 cr. #India biz.” Box-office tracking website Box Office India noted that KGF 2 is the only film to have achieved the feat on a non-holiday Monday.

#KGF2 is UNSTOPPABLE… SUPERB HOLD on a working day [Mon]… Eyes ₹ 270 cr [+/-] in *extended Week 1*… Should cross #Dangal *lifetime biz*, if it maintains the pace… Thu 53.95 cr, Fri 46.79 cr, Sat 42.90 cr, Sun 50.35 cr, Mon 25.57 cr. Total: ₹ 219.56 cr. #India biz. pic.twitter.com/MFUVWTXTJB

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) April 19, 2022

Vijayabalan tweeted, “Monday report: Multiple theatres are reporting show cancellations for #Beast due to ultra low/no crowd turn out from Morning. On the other hand, #KGFChapter2 is being reported with SPLENDID crowd & sold out shows even on a big screen from Morning.”

Monday report

Multiple theatres are reporting show cancellations for #Beast due to ultra low/no crowd turn out from Morning.

On the other hand, #KGFChapter2 is being reported with SPLENDID crowd & sold out shows even on a big screen from Morning.

— Manobala Vijayabalan (@ManobalaV) April 18, 2022

With Rs 25 crore added to its total collection (Hindi), director Prashanth Neel’s film has become the ‘fastest’ entrant in the Rs 200 crore club. It also might soon cross the lifetime collection of Aamir Khan’s Dangal which stands at Rs 387.38 crore.

It remains to be seen if KGF 2 will cross the first-week collection of Baahubali 2, which stands at Rs 247 crore.

Though the film is earning big at the ticket counters, it has received mixed reviews from critics. The Indian Express’ film critic Shubhra Gupta gave the movie a 1.5-star rating. She wrote in her review, “The film swings haphazardly between the past, which shows us Rocky’s devotion towards his mother (Archana Jois), and the present, in which he swings between being a saviour and the guy who cracks the whip and roars at the workers to never stop working. Good guy compelled to do bad things by dint of circumstance, or bad guy with a golden heart? Not for us to make too fine a point on that faint distinction because as far as KGF 2 goes, Rocky is no ‘gangster’, only the ‘Master who enters and conquers’.”