Pathaan Box Office: Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan wreaks havoc overseas, with a huge $3 million + opening day

Pathaan has had an INSANE beginning at the box office in both India and abroad. Reports of record-breaking pre-sales were already circulating in over the last week, and now that those sales are being converted into actual box office numbers, the results are out of this world. The Shah Rukh Khan-starrer has collected a whopping A$600,000 on its first day in Australia.

In Australia, Shah Rukh Khan breaks a new record

In Australia, the holiday may have boosted the numbers, but despite the mid-week release, the movie is putting up some INSANE numbers elsewhere. A mid-week release is a massive limiting factor overseas since the business is more weekend heavy, yet Pathaan is breaking records on a non-holiday mid-week Wednesday in the Far East, Middle East, and West. Listing pre-sales figures in a few key markets. Pre-sales in North America have exceeded $800,000 on opening day. The true figure will easily surpass $1 million, maybe exceeding $1.25-1.40 million. Similarly, the film had $750,000 plus pre-sales in Gulf, and it is expected to reach $1 million on opening day here. The United Kingdom has been a dormant market for Bollywood for a long time. had a HUGE £ 150,000 plus pre-sales, and first-day actuals are anticipated to comfortably exceed £ 200,000. To summarise, if there is a Bollywood pre-sales record somewhere, Pathaan currently holds it.

Pathaan was on his way to a $3 million-plus day abroad

All of these figures would have been impressive on a typical Friday, but they're coming on a Wednesday. The precise location of the land will not be revealed until tomorrow, and we will have a thorough report on that, but the first day overseas will very certainly be $3 million or more, with a good possibility of even $4 million. Normally, you would be looking at $17-18 million plus 5 days with this Wednesday, but these are not regular figures, so those conventional tendencies may not hold, but even in the worst-case scenario, Bollywood's global opening records are toast. This film is taking us into new area; let's see where it leads us.