Rajinikanth is back and how! The legendary actor who has completed 50 years in cinema is back with a film to woo his fans. Titled ‘Coolie’ the film releasing on August 14, also starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Soubin Shahir, Aamir Khan, Shruti Haasan is clashing with Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR‘s ‘War 2’. This is one of the biggest clashes one has ever seen and there have been many clashes around Independence day. At the moment, it looks like ‘Coolie’ is dominating over ‘War 2’ when it comes to the advance ticket sales. But once the films releases, word of mouth will play a huge role in how both he films sustain in India and worldwide. ‘Coolie’ which is directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj has already made Rs 100 crore gross worldwide in the advance ticket sales which is huge. With this, it has smashed the record of Ram Charan’s ‘Game Changer’ and become the biggest opening for an Indian movie through advance booking, according to Sacnilk. This Ram Charan starrer had made Rs 80 crore in advance ticket sales from worldwide gross. Meanwhile, when it comes to Tamil movies, the total first day number of Thalapathy Vijay’s ‘Leo’ was Rs 143 crore. ‘Coolie’ has already collected Rs 100 crore in advance sales. The numbers coming from the current bookings on August 14 may be even higher. With that, the film may eventually shatter that record of Day 1 collection of ‘Leo’ and become the highest grossing first day Tamil movie. On the other hand, ‘War 2’ has earned Rs 16 crore gross so far when it comes to the advance ticket sales and thus, it’s far behind ‘Coolie’ at the moment, but the film may eventually pick up with spot bookings. A lot will depend on word of mouth. But it may perform well in the Telugu states with JR NTR’s presence who is a big star there. Though, even in the Telugu states, Rajinikanth’s ‘Coolie’ may serve a huge competition.
