Prabhas’s Kalki creates history, surpasses Rs 700 cr worldwide

Prabhas’s sci-fi epic film 'Kalki 2898 AD', has been in the theatres for a week now, and has already passed the Rs 700 crore mark at the worldwide box office. The film's producer Vyjayanthi Movies confirmed the development in a post on X (formerly Twitter). 

The dystopian sci-fi film started its box office journey in India with Rs 95.3 crore nett, and brought in Rs 23.2 crore on its seventh day. The drop in Kalki 2899 AD’s collections in India is at 75 percent since the day of its release. However, it has maintained its stability after the first weekend. From the sixth to the seventh day, the drop was only of 14.23 percent. As per reports, this takes the film’s Indian nett collection to Rs 393.4 crore.

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At the North American box office, the film had crossed $13 million as of Wednesday. Kalki is the fastest Indian movie to gross $13 million in North America. With this, the film is eyeing the record set by Animal ($14.99 million), RRR ($15.15 million), Jawan ($15.22 million), Pathaan ($17.48 million) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion ($20.79 million).

Directed and written by Nag Ashwin, the film focuses on a bounty hunter who wants to make it big in the Complex, governed by Supreme Yaskin.  Besides Prabhas, the film features Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Disha Patani and Saswata Chatterjee in pivotal roles. 

Meanwhile, Kalki 2898 AD director Nag Ashwin shared a behind the scene picture of Prabhas on social media and appreciated the Telugu superstar for the film's success.

"This man sitting casually there is the reason for all this, unbiasedly the biggest box office star of this era. He gave our production the confidence to do what we did... and so many intelligent inputs helped guide the film to what it is... everyone's darling, our Bhairava and now the world's K (sic)," Ashwin said in his Instagram story. 

The film also has cameos by the likes of SS Rajamouli, Vijay Devarakonda, Dulquer Salmaan, Ram Gopal Varma, Malvika Nair, Mrunal Thakur and Anna Ben. Kalki 2898 has an IMDb rating of 8/10 at present and was released in theatres worldwide on June 27.