Raees and Kaabil give Bollywood its best January in years

Combined with Dec 2016 release Dangal, the three movies raked in Rs 300 cr business in Jan

Urvi Malvania  |  Mumbai  January 31, 2017 Last Updated at 02:30 IST

Shah Rukh Khan playing a gangster and Hrithik Roshan as a vengeful husband seem to have given Bollywood exactly the January it would have hoped for.  Khan’s Raees and Roshan’s Kaabil both released on Wednesday, 25 January — in a bid to take advantage of the extended weekend, with Republic Day falling on a Thursday. The trick seems to have worked.  While Rajiv Dholakia-directed Raees raked in Rs 93.2 crore, Kaabil, made by Sanjay Gupta, earned about Rs 55 crore till Sunday. After a somewhat tepid 2016, in which big-budget films such as ...

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Raees and Kaabil give Bollywood its best January in years