Indian cinema has now gone global in a big way with worldwide collections increasing with every Indian movie release. Apart from mega movies like Baahubali and RRR, Shah Rukh Khan’s recent releases like Jawan and Pathaan have also done wonderfully well in Europe and other continents as well. Pathaan was the biggest blockbuster of last year and until now it held the record of getting the biggest opening in the UK and the rest of Europe on the first day.
Now Thalapathy Vijay’s Leo has dethroned Pathaan from this position. Thanks to the aggressive distribution strategy adopted by the distributors' Ahimsa Entertainment, in the UK and Europe Leo has set an all-time record of being the Indian movie with the highest advance ticket sales for the first day dethroning Pathaan.
It also indicates that not only the Bollywood superstars, but even the superstars from the South like Thalapathy Vijay also have immense following abroad, and if the right strategy is adopted, they can also create havoc at the box office overseas. The latest report says that Pathaan had registered an opening number of £319K but Thalapathy Vijay’s Leo has already gone beyond that number and there is almost a week for its release. Hence the number of advance bookings is expected to go higher and higher.
Leo is a Tamil-action thriller directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and has already taken Indian advance sales by storm. Thalapathy Vijay is known for delivering back-to-back hits and it seems true to his image Leo is also all set to become a blockbuster. Apart from Vijay, Leo also features Arjun, Trisha, Sanjay Dutt, Priya Anand, Mansoor Ali Khan and Gautham Vasudev Menon.
Looking at the hype for Salman Khan ’s Tiger 3 it is expected that the movie will also have tremendous response overseas when it comes to advance bookings. Currently, Leo, Pathaan, and Jawan of Shah Rukh Khan are the three movies with the highest first-day advance bookings in the UK and Europe followed by Salman Khan’s Sultan and SRK’s Chennai Express at the fifth position.