Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia’s period drama film ‘Raja Shivaji’ has become the biggest opener of Marathi film. The film has performed amazingly at the box office on the first day. As soon as the film was released, it became popular on social media and people praised it a lot. Salman Khan’s cameo in this also won the hearts of the audience. This is why it had a direct impact on the film’s box office. Let us tell you which records the film has made since advance booking.

Marathi film with highest advance booking

The film ‘Raja Shivaji’ did excellent business not only on the opening day but also in terms of advance booking. According to Sacknilk, Riteish Deshmukh’s film collected Rs 5.14 crore without block seats. Its net collection in Marathi was 3.60 crores and historical gross collection was 4.25 crores. With this collection, it has become the first highest advance booking film of Marathi cinema.

‘Raja Shivaji’ becomes Marathi’s highest opener film

Riteish Deshmukh starrer film ‘Raja Shivaji’ has done excellent business on the opening day. It has made record breaking earnings. According to Sacknilk, this has become the highest opener film of Marathi cinema. ‘Raja Shivaji’ had collected Rs 11.35 crore on the first day, in which it did a business of Rs 3.35 crore in Hindi and Rs 8 crore in Marathi.

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Defeated Marathi films ‘Sairat’ and ‘Timepass 2’

According to Sacknilk, ‘Raja Shivaji’ has also defeated the highest grossing films in Marathi on the opening day. It defeated films like ‘Sairat’ and ‘Timepass 2’ and has become the number 1 highest grossing film of Marathi. Marathi film ‘Sairat’ had collected Rs 3.60 crore on the first day, which has been beaten by ‘Raja Shivaji’.

Riteish Deshmukh broke the opening record of his own films

Along with this, through ‘Raja Shivaji’, Riteish Deshmukh has also broken the opening records of his own previous Marathi films. According to SACNILC, it has left behind the opening day collections of its own films like ‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ (2.25 crore net collection) in 2024, ‘Ved’ (2.25 crore) in 2022, ‘Har Har Mahadev’ (2 crore) in 2022 and ‘Dharamveer’ (2 crore) in 2022.

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Record of ‘Manikarnika’ also broken

Not only this, ‘Raja Shivaji’ has also defeated the period drama film ‘Manikarnika’ in terms of opening day collection. According to Sacknilk, Kangana Ranaut’s film had done a business of Rs 8.75 crore, which has now been broken by Ritesh Deshmukh’s film.

Starcast and story of ‘Raja Shivaji’

However, if we look at the story and star cast of ‘Raja Shivaji’, it shows the story of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from his childhood to fighting the war. Ritesh and Genelia have played lead roles in the film. Ritesh has been seen in the role of Maharaja Shivaji and Genelia as his wife. At the same time, Sanjay Dutt is also in the role of Afzal Khan in the film. It also stars actors like Bhagyashree, Vidya Balan, Abhishek Bachchan and Fardeen Khan.