Mumbai: Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh’s film ‘Raja Shivaji’ was released in theatres on March 1 for public viewing. The film has been released in both Marathi and Hindi. Made at a reported budget of Rs 100 crore, it is said to be the most expensive Marathi film ever produced.According to Sacnilk, Raja Shivaji sees noticeable drop and reportedly collected a net of Rs 0.53 crore from a total of 1,977 shows in India on the thirteenth day.The film in Marathi language continued to perform better and gain more collection than in Hindi, it records as Rs 0.41 crore and Rs 0.12 crore respectively. Marathi filmed c 971 shows and in Hindi language with 1,006 shows.The film’s total domestic net collection has reached Rs 73.68 crore, while the gross collection stands at Rs 87.28 crore.The film opened strongly on May 1 with Rs 11.35 crore on Day 1 across 6,192 shows. The opening weekend remained steady with collections of Rs 10.55 crore on Day 2 and Rs 12 crore on Day 3, helping the film cross Rs 33 crore within its first three days.The film had collected Rs 5.14 crore gross from advance booking. The original language, Marathi had got Rs 4.25 crore gross alone.It is produced by Genelia D’Souza and Jyoti Deshpande. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sachin Khedekar, Bhagyashree, Fardeen Khan, Jitendra Joshi, Boman Irani, Amol Gupte and Genelia Deshmukh.The film has surpassed Sairat and Timepass 2 which had collected an estimated Rs 3.60 crore Nett on their opening days.
