Baaghi 2 may have fell short of the Padmaavat weekend record of this year but it was comfortably the most watched film of the year in the first three days. The film got in close to 65 lakh people into the theatres over the first three days while it was around 60 lakh for Paddmavati.

Padmaavat was released on higher ticket rates across most multiplexes due to the hype and holiday period while Baaghi 2 was released on normal rates. Also Baaghi 2 had a far higher ratio of business coming from single screens which have lower ticket rates. The ratio of single screen business is even a little higher than Tiger Zinda Hai but less than Baaghi which scored heavily in single screens and less in multiplexes especially the major chains.

Pad Man had a slightly higher weekend than Raid in terms of collections but footfalls were slightly higher. The highest weekend footfalls this year so far are as follows.

1. Baaghi 2 - 64.65 lakhs

2. Padmaavat - 60.37 lakhs

3. Raid - 33.71 lakhs

4. Pad Man - 32.19 lakhs

5. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety - 22.73 lakhs

Baaghi did near 65 lakhs footfalls and the benchmark for weekend is 1 crore and only three films in the history have ever achieved is. One of course is Bahubali - The Conclusion while the other two are Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dhoom 3. 

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Tiger Zinda Hai just missed by a small margin and this benchmark will take some doing as they way ticket prices have risen in over the last 3 months a film needs over 120 crore nett to get there unless its a film like Baaghi 2 released on normal ticket rates.