Animal box office collection day 9: Ranbir Kapoor-starrer breaks Dangal’s record in India, earns over Rs 398 crore

Despite facing criticism, Ranbir Kapoor’s film Animal continues to have a successful run at the box office. After a strong first weekend, the film is dominating the box office through its second weekend as well. On its second Saturday, Animal earned Rs 34.74 crore at the domestic box office, according to industry tracker Sacnilk.

With this, Animal has garnered a total domestic collection of Rs 395.27 crore. Globally, the film has made Rs 660.89 crore, as per the production company T-Series.

The film held an overall 49.12 percent Hindi occupancy on Saturday, with a significant crowd attending night shows, accounting for 62.29 percent of the Hindi-language screenings. In addition, the movie attained a 40.36 percent Telugu occupancy and a 33.25 percent Tamil occupancy.

The Sandeep Reddy Vanga film has surpassed the lifetime collections of Salman Khan’s Tiger Zinda Hai and has secured a spot in the top 10 list of all-time highest-grossing films worldwide. Despite maintaining momentum, it is yet to cross the collections of the highest-grossing Indian film of 2023, Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan earned Rs 464.8 Cr in its first week and in comparison, Animal earned Rs 337.58 crore in its debut week. Although it managed to surpass the first week collections of other major hits such as SRK’s Pathaan (Rs 318.50 crore) and Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 (Rs 284.63 crore).