Devara Box Office Collection Day 3: Jr NTR Starrer Zooms Past ₹150 Crore In Opening Weekend

Devara Part 1 Box Office Collection: Jr NTR, Saif Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor starrer are performing well at the box office in India. The movie had a great opening as it earned ₹82.5 crore at the box office with a maximum in Telugu language - ₹73.25 crore. However, on the second day, the movie witnessed a drop of 53.70 per cent in the collection. To fans' delight, the action thriller is back on track and has surpassed ₹150 crore mark on Sunday.

Devara Part 1 box office collection day 3

Helmed by Koratala Siva, the movie witnessed a jump of 5.50 per cent in the collection on the third day of its release. On Sunday, the movie earned approximately ₹40.3 crores at the box office with a maximum in Telugu (27.65 crores), followed by Hindi (11 crores) and Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam collectively earning ₹1.65 crores at the domestic box office. Adding the three-day collection, the movie earned ₹161 crore at the box office in the opening weekend.

The breakdown of the three-day collection shows the Telugu version leading the chart with ₹128.45 crore, followed by Hindi at ₹27.5 corer, while other languages have contributed smaller amounts.

Devara Part 1 had an overall 65.35 per cent Telugu occupancy on Sunday with the maximum reported in Mahbubnagar (85 per cent).

Can Jr NTR break the SS Rajamouli curse?

An eerie coincidence follows the fate of Tollywood movies. It is said, and observed, that actors who collaborate with the veteran director SS Rajamouli and deliver blockbuster hits with him are doomed to fail in their next project. Jr NTR himself has been a victim of this ‘curse' thrice in the past.

The actor who delivered a blockbuster with the Rajamouli film Student No 1 (2001), scored a massive flop with his next Subbu (2001). He tasted the same failure again when his film Andhrawala (2004) followed the massively successful Rajamouli's Simhadri (2003). Jr NTR could not escape the so-called curse even the third time around. After the success of Yamadonga (2007), the actor went on to feature in Kantri (2008) which underperformed at the ticketing counter.

However, seeing the collection of Devara Part 1 it seems, that Jr NTR will be able to break the curse and how.