A still from Tanu Weds Manu Returns.
This Bollywood bottom line is a thing of beauty. The Aanand L Rai-directed
Tanu Weds Manu Returns has collected the year's first Rs 100 crores at the home box office, an incandescent spot in an otherwise gloomy 2015 which has been less about profit and more about loss.
Monday's business took the film past the finish line. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted:
In a moment of pure Bollywood-like serendipity, the 100 crore day coincided with
Tanu Weds Manu Returns' lead actor R Madhavan's 45th birthday.
Tanu Weds Manu Returns stars Kangana Ranaut as both the female leads - the eponymous Tanu and her lookalike Datto - apart from Madhavan, Jimmy Sheirgill, Deepak Dobriyal and Swara Bhaskar.
The film had already made over Rs 100 crores worldwide last week, as have Deepika Padukone's
Piku and Akshay Kumar's
Gabbar Is Back.