Dangal (Hindi) grossed a huge 18 crore apprx on day eight smashing all records for day eight by a distance. The business in North India has gone to another level on day eight with collections in Delhi /UP being better than Thursday at 4 crore nett while East Punjab was similar to Thursday with 2.40 crore nett. other areas saw drops in the 10-15% region which is still excellent. The film is tax free in UP and Haryana which is helping the Nett collections in both these states. Saturday in New Year's Eve and the growth can be huge but on the other hand the film is already at a very high level which could curtail growth. If the 30% plus growth comes then the film will be on course for a historic 100 crore nett second week which has never happened before. Dangal has crossed the 210 crore nett mark in eight days. The daily business of Dangal (Hindi) till date is as follows.

Friday - 29,14,00,000

Saturday 34,00,00,000

Sunday - 41,25,00,000

Monday - 25,00,00,000 

Tuesday - 22,50,00,000

Wednesday - 20,75,00,000

Thursday - 19,75,00,000

First Week - 1,92,49,00,000

Friday (2nd) - 18,00,00,000

TOTAL - 2,10,49,00,000 apprx

The film has sustained well in Tamil and will do a decent number in that language but Telugu is poor. Due to good holds in Tamil the dubbed language business could do 10 crore nett plus and only Dhoom 3 has done this much before.