‘Black Panther’ Leaves ‘Aiyaari’ Behind, Earns Rs 7.2 Cr on Day 1

‘Black Panther’ is off to a roaring start at the Indian box office.

A still from Disney’s Black Panther.

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Marvel superheroes and the cinematic universe they inhabit have unfailingly captured the imagination of Indians and earned big at the Indian box office as well. Black Panther, the stand-alone superhero Marvel movie has already pocketed praise from the audience and the critics. It raked in approximately Rs 7.2 crore on day 1 and is on its way to sprinting towards a historic weekend, internationally.

The film managed to overtake the Manoj Bajpaye and Sidharth Malhotra starrer spy thriller, Aiyaari, which earned about Rs 3.25 crore.

Black Panther follows T'Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.

The Ryan Coogler directorial pushes boundaries with the depiction of one of the first black superheroes as the wealthy king of a fictitious country, Wakanda, which is even more powerful than the United States.

Source: The Hindustan Times

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