Akshay Kumar-starrer Kesari Chapter 2 has also opened on a high note, collecting ₹29.62 crore nett at the domestic box office during its first weekend, said the makers in a statement released on Monday.
The film was directed by newbie director Karan Singh Tyagi and also featured R Madhavan and Ananya Panday. It had released on April 18.
Dharma Productions, the company producing the movie, shared the revenues via a social media update, showing a breakdown of the day-wise collections.
It released on the first day with ₹7.84 crore, then ₹10.08 crore on the second day and ₹11.70 crore on the third.
A spiritual follow-up to the 2019 film Kesari, the sequel delves into a lesser-known episode of Indian colonial history — the aftermath of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Informed by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat's book The Case That Shook the Empire, the movie describes the thrilling history of lawyer C Sankaran Nair's legal battle with the British empire in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the historic defamation case of 1924, for which Nair was sued by Michael O'Dwyer, the late Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, when he revealed British atrocities in his articles.
