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Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees movie highest grossing hindi movie in Chennai

Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees movie highest grossing hindi movie in Chennai

Shah Rukh Khan’s action drama movie ‘Raees’ has crossed Rs 1.28 crore in Chennai release which no other movie has grossed across the city. It is making waves over the world by continues its dominance over the worldwide box office. It was released on January 25 and has collected total Rs 78.88 crore an estimated USD 11.60 million at the international box office. Raees starts off with a brilliant run at the ticket counters and went on to earn the highest record of Bollywood’s weekend grosser. As per now, Raees total worldwide gross collection is Rs 259.42 crore.

Trade analyst Kaushik LM tweeted that ” In H1 of 2017 among Hindi releases, Raees is by far the top grosser in Chennai City with 1.28CR..No other Hindi film touched 1CR”. Raees movie starred Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan and Nawazuddin is astounding to be the best grosser as compared to the same day release Kaabil revenge-drama featuring Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam. SRK’s Raees directed by Rahul Dholakia who has been doing brisk business since the day of release. It was also appreciated by the critics as they say it is the power packed performances of the hard-hitting dialogues and the foot-tapping jazz music. It revolves around the person who gets in involved in illegal liquor trade at a very young age and works for a notorious gangster Jairaj who smuggles alcohol illegally. While an honest police officer J. A. Majmudar wants to end this illegal liquor trade. Raees marks the return of angry young man Shah Rukh Khan who will be now seen in a Crazy Romantic drama Jab Harry Met Sejal movie along with Anushka Sharma.

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