Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan

A record start at the box office meant that Happy New Year was always going to be in really good territory. This is what happened, what with the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer going on to collect good moolah at the end of its first week. Of course, with an opening day in excess of 40 crore, it was pretty much expected that the film would maintain a wonderful high right through the weekdays as well. Though that wasn’t quite the case with collections being decent to good, and not extraordinary, the Farah Khan-directed film still managed to emerge as one of the top grossers of the year.

As things stand now, the film has collected around 157.5 crores, which makes it the second highest grosser ever for Shah Rukh Khan after Chennai Express. Though it is unlikely that the film will cross the total of Chennai Express (227 crore), it has still done really well.

All eyes are now on the film’s performance in the second week, as that will decide whether SRK will have his second double century in a row, a feat that no actor has achieved so far.