Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan

PK has hit the roof. If the weekend saw wonderful momentum building for the film, weekdays showed the level of acceptance that the Aamir Khan starrer had received. The film continued to score heavily and with Christmas approaching, the Rajkumar Hirani affair saw an escalation all over again. As a result, the film managed to gather astonishing foot-falls with collections around 180 crore*.

The success has turned out to be even better for everyone involved, and there are plenty of reasons! First and foremost, Aamir has managed to break his own record of Dhoom 3 that was created last year for the highest collections ever gained in the first week run. Secondly, Rajkumar Hirani has almost managed to collect the entire lifetime collections of 3 Idiots (202 crore) in one week flat. Thirdly, producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra‘s confidence in the product and the promises that he made to to the distributors have proven true as well. Last but not the least, Anushka Sharma is back in business with a biggie.

With the kind of response that PK is gaining, it is now a given that this social-satirical affair would result in the biggest success of 2014, hence surpassing Salman Khan‘s Kick [232 crore] and Shah Rukh Khan‘s Happy New Year [202 crore]. Meanwhile, it also passes Chennai Express [227 crore]. The next big target though is Dhoom 3 which had managed 284 crore. There are many more overs (read open days) ahead to score these runs (collections) and it is now a matter of whether the film manages to seize this opportunity and play consistently or run out of breath after some initial quick hitting!

*Final numbers awaited