PadMan box office collection: Akshay Kumar starrer PadMan which hit the theatres yesterday, got a good response from the audience on the first day of its release. This R Balki directed film had a decent start and earned Rs 10.26 cr on day 1 in India. Besides domestic market, the film had also done fine internationally. The hype around the film proved to be good enough to pull in a good crowd to the theatres even in the overseas market. The film which has Akshay Kumar in the lead role alongside Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte, hit a total of 600 screens in the overseas market. As per the report by Bollywood Hungama, on the overseas collections of PadMan on Day 1 (Friday), the film managed to gross Rs 29.94 at Australia and New Zealand box office.

PadMan overseas box office collection on Day 1, Friday:

Australia box office
28,874 USD [Rs. 18.57 lacs] from 27 screens

New Zealand box office
17,674 USD [Rs. 11.37 lacs] from 18 screens

While on the domestic market, the film was released on 2750 screens and according to Bollywood Hungama, the film had a 25 per cent occupancy rate for the morning shows. The movie opened on a non-holiday Friday which explains the sum. The film has collected over Rs 10.26 cr on the opening day, which, however, is much lesser to the expectation of the analysts.

Movie critic and biz analyst took to Twitter and announced about day 1 collection of the film. He wrote, “#PadMan has a DECENT start… Fri ₹ 10.26 cr… The biz, expectedly, picked up towards evening/night shows… The journey ahead is crucial… Sat + Sun should witness strong growth for a good weekend total… India biz.”

PadMan is based on the life of a real-life hero Arunachalam Muruganantham who brought in a wave of change in the lives of rural women by inventing the machine which could dispense economically viable sanitary pads. Akshay Kumar aces his role as Lakshmikanth Chauhan in the film and the act can be deemed as one of his most endearing performances till date.