Dhurandhar is a sensation in Overseas and is probably one of the greatest box office performances in recent history. It is not the highest number ever but how this film has gone so far in overseas is just remarkable. The core market in overseas is made up Non Resident Indians and Non Resident Asians and a huge chunk of these Asians are from Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as other Muslim countries from Asia and Middle East. The Indian muslim crowd is very less in the Non Resident Indian contigent.

This is the reason why patriotic films have had less business in Overseas especially the ones which are more front footed towards the patriotism angle. There was an era when those Manoj Kumar patriotic films ruled the charts overseas but post 1994 when overseas opened up the patriotic film would not be among the biggest grossers mainly as that Asian crowd from other countries which is mainly muslim would not go to theatres feeling it will be anti them or their country.

This reason is here for Dhurandhar as well but the fact that these numbers are coming without this audience is what makes it the biggest overseas sensation in recent times and possibly even since the markets opened up in 1994. The fact that the film is going to put up $35 million without Gulf and then on top without the overseas Muslim crowd from other countries is just unthinkable.

No doubt some of this heavy muslim crowd may have seen but most of it would have stayed away. A film not realeased in Gulf pretty much means a huge chunk of the muslim crowd in other countries staying away. The reality is that it is competing with the biggest films with maybe just 50% of the potential audience as others with Gulf missing and the bulk of the other muslim crowd staying away.

The film at present stands at $29.50 million after four weeks and is still going strong and it shows that patriotic and pro India films can now compete with the biggest films in Overseas though treatment has to be different from the regular patriotic film.