Mission Mangal recorded excellent first day collections of 28.50 crore nett apprx easily beating Gold for the highest Akshay Kumar opening day. Gold coincidentally released exactly a year ago. The numbers are pretty impressive all over with the bigger cities performing very well. The top twenty or so cities have recorded solid numbers. The business in singles screens is so so but that is expected.

The big holiday is over and now its about consolidating at its real value number as the holiday is juat the bonus and eventually a film of this type should sustain in the long run. There will be big drop in collections today but its about going back up over the weekend for a big extended weekend. The film has scored best in Mumbai, Delhi NCR and South.

The top five Akshay Kumar opening days are as follows and Mission Mangal has a healthy lead over Gold of over 20% though in GROSS terms that lead will be less and around 12%.

1. Mission Mangal - 28,50,00,000

2. Gold - 23,63,00,000

3. Kesari - 20,40,00,000

4. 2.0 (Hindi) - 19,74,00,000

5. Singh Is Bling - 16,98,00,000