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Housefull 5 worldwide box office collection day 1: Akshay Kumar film beats Sooryavanshi opening at ₹40 crore
Housefull 5 worldwide box office collection day 1: Tarun Mansukhani's ensemble film Housefull 5, starring Akshay Kumar, Nargis Fakhri, Abhishek Bachchan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Riteish Deshmukh and Soundarya Sharma, was released in theatres this Friday. According to Sacnilk, the film collected ₹40 crore worldwide on its opening day. (Also Read: Housefull 5 box office collection day 1: Akshay Kumar gives his best opening since Sooryavanshi, film beats Fighter)
The trade website reports that Housefull 5 brought in ₹24 crore net and ₹28.75 crore gross in India on Friday. The film's producers, Nadiawala Grandson, also claimed that the film made ₹24.35 crore net in India. With the ₹12 crore collection from overseas, the total of the film stands around ₹40.75 crore.
Akshay had two more releases this year – Sky Force and Kesari Chapter 2. Kesari Chapter 2 had a ₹14 crore opening worldwide. Housefull 5's figures are also better than those of his 2021 Rohit Shetty film Sooryavanshi, which had made ₹39.50 crore on its opening day. For context, even within the franchise, Housefull 4 had a ₹30.50 crore opening worldwide, making these numbers impressive.
Housefull 5 also stars Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Shreyas Talpade, Nana Patekar, Jackie Shroff, Dino Morea, Chitrangada Singh, Sonam Bajwa, Chunky Pandey, Nikitin Dheer and Johnny Lever. It's the fifth instalment of the popular Housefull franchise. It is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Warda Nadiadwala and Firuzi Khan under the production banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.
The film is a comedy whodunit that follows events after billionaire Ranjeet Dobriyal is killed aboard a cruise ship he's throwing a party on by a masked killer. Three men named Jolly turn up to demand inheritance of his fortune, each claiming they are the rich man's son. Instead of being given the money they dreamt of, the three are looked at as suspects. The film has two different endings with different killers, depending on which theatre it's watched in.
