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Coolie Vs War 2 Movie Day 1 Box Office Collections: Rajinikanth’s film is leading in advance bookings. Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR’s project lags behind in advance sales.

Coolie and War 2 advance box office collections Day 1.
Coolie vs War 2 Movie Collections Day 1: South cinema and Bollywood are set for another big clash, scheduled for the Independence Day weekend on August 14. Rajinikanth’s Coolie will meet Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR’s War 2 in theatres, and it seems like the audience already has a preference.
Coolie Movie Collections: Day 1 Advance Booking Reports
Kickstarting its pre-sales overseas before hitting Indian screens, Rajinikanth’s Coolie is witnessing a massive rush in international ticket bookings as a part of its early sales. The stakes are bigger than that of War 2 in India too. In the country, where bookings opened in phases on Friday, the film has already pulled in Rs 14 crore in advance sales, with Rs 10 crore locked for opening day alone. The Tamil version dominates with nearly Rs 10 crore, while the Telugu and Kannada versions have made a solid start. The Hindi version lags for now but is expected to pick up momentum as release day approaches.
Internationally, Coolie is smashing records. In North America, premiere advance bookings have touched USD 1.7 million (about Rs 14 crore), of which USD 1.45 million comes from the USA alone, with over 56,000 tickets sold. This feat surpasses the premiere earnings of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Leo, which had grossed USD 1.3 million in the USA on its debut day. The film’s total overseas advance now stands at Rs 41 crore, already more than the lifetime foreign earnings of Kamal Haasan’s Thug Life.
With this momentum, Coolie is poised to break the all-time Tamil cinema advance booking benchmark of Rs 46 crore set by Thalapathy Vijay’s Leo. On the domestic front, it has already outpaced Jailer’s Rs 18 crore India pre-sales record and, as per trade buzz, could potentially double its current advance figures before its August 14 release. The film also stars Nagarjuna, Upendra, and Shruti Haasan, with an extended cameo by Aamir Khan.
War 2 Movie Collections: Day 1 Advance Booking Reports
As for Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR’s War 2, the YRF-backed film is lagging far behind Rajinikanth’s Coolie in terms of numbers. According to Sacnilk, its advance booking sales have so far brought in Rs 2.09 crore. The film has a lot of ground to cover – not just to catch up with Coolie, but also because it has been made on a staggering budget of Rs 400 crore. The film also stars Kiara Advani.

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