Mahavatar Narsimha may well turn out to be the first animation HIT film in Hindi. Animation films have a very poor record with only Hanuman in 2005 being a bonafide success and though the film did well it was not what you would call a HIT film. The film grossed around 5.50 crore nett way back in 2005 with 12 lakh footfalls.

Mahavatar Narsimha has opened to around 1.35 crore nett on its first day in Hindi which is surprise and a huge number for animation films as no film has even hit the 75 lakh nett mark. The film has been dubbed into the South languages where Telugu is pretty good but the others are very poor. The collections from the other languages maybe around 35-40 lakhs nett but the story of this film will be about the Hindi version.

The film was released in 400 screens apprx in Hindi and that count will be higher on Saturday and its likely that the film will be the highest grossing animation film in Hindi by the end of the weekend and if the film holds well from there it will the first animation HIT film in Hindi. The biggest Indian animation film is Chaar Sahibzaade (2014) but that film was a Punjabi film.