Ranveer Singh’s Simmba has crossed the Rs 200 crore mark at the domestic box office and the movie is officially a blockbuster on the box office. The film was the last big release of 2018 and hit the theatres ahead of the New Year on December 28 starring Sara Ali Khan as the female lead opposite Ranveer. Simmba also stars Sonu Sood and Ashutosh Rana. The film is Rohit Shetty’s 8th consecutive film to have entered the Rs 100 crore club and is expected become his third film to make it to the coveted Rs 200 crore club.
According to a report in Boxofficeindia.com, the film collected Rs 5.50 crore on Tuesday, which takes its total to Rs 201 crore. Simmba is Rohit Shetty’s most successful film after Chennai Express and Golmaal Again at the domestic box office. The report also predicts that the film will soon surpass the domestic collections of Shetty’s other blockbusters Golmaal Again (Rs 205 crore) and Chennai Express (Rs 227 crore) this week.
Ranveer said in an interview to Famously Filmfare, “Everything I was born to do, I have done in Rohit Shetty’s film from running at high speed, dialogues, fights to larger than life projection from a low angle on a huge canvas.” Simmba has already surpassed the collections of Ranveer’s earlier film, Bajirao Mastani, and might cross the collections of Padmaavat, which stands at a domestic collection of Rs 302 crore.
Ranveer Singh next film Gully Boy’s trailer with Alia Bhatt is released yesterday and from the trailer its looks like the movie is another big blockbuster. We must say that Ranveer Singh’s career has taken another jump after marriage to lady love Deepika Padukone.