Ranveer Singh starrer Simmba had a whopping start at the Indian box office. The movie began its theatrical run with ₹ 20.72 Crore and emerges as Ranveer’s highest opening film ever, beating Padmaavat’s first day collection of ₹ 19 Crore. This spin-off of the Singham franchise also starring Sara Ali Khan, Sonu Sood, Siddharth Jadhav, Ashutosh Rana with Ajay Devgn reprising his role of Bajirao Singham.
The action-drama-comedy film has collected ₹ 75.11 Crore within three days of its release. The film is also performing well in overseas, estimated to have collected ₹ 34.64 Crore ($ 4.96 Million) in its opening weekend. It becomes the sixth highest opening weekend grosser of this year surpassing Baaghi 2 which had collected $ 3.3 Million in its opening weekend.
The movie is directed by Rohit Shetty and written by Yunus Sajawal & Sajid-Farhad. It is produced by Rohit Shetty under his banner Rohit Shetty Picturez and Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under the banner Dharma Productions. Principal photography began in June 2018 with most scenes filmed in Goa & Kolhapur and the remaining filmed at Hyderabad & Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. Shooting was wrapped up by early December in the same year.
The movie got released in 4983 screens worldwide which includes 4020 screens in India and 963 screens in overseas. Simmba is made on a budget of ₹ 80 Crore including the Production cost and Prints & Advertising Cost.
Day Wise Collection :
| Days | Box Office Collection |
| Friday | ₹ 20.72 Crore |
| Saturday | ₹ 23.33 Crore |
| Sunday | ₹ 31.06 Crore |
| Total | ₹ 75.11 Crore |
