Dangal becomes biggest Bollywood film in history

When it comes to setting box office records, Bollywood superstar  Aamir Khan seems unbeatable. 

His latest release, “Dangal”, which also stars Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Sakshi Tanwar, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar in key roles, has become the highest- grossing film of Bollywood.

The film, about women wrestlers' struggle in a village in northern state of Haryana, earned Rs 14.33 crore on day 17 of its commercial release, to take its total tally to a whopping Rs 345.30 crore. 

With this, “Dangal” claimed the top spot in the list of all-time highest-grossing films in Bollywood, surpassing “PK”, also starring Aamir, which had collected Rs 340.8 crore in its lifetime run. “PK” is now in the second spot, according to Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh. 

Aamir has in the past set benchmarks. It was his 2008 hit film “Ghajini” that set the 100-crore club in motion and a year later his 2009 blockbuster “3 Idiots” was the first movie to cross the Rs 200-crore mark. “PK” went another step ahead and became the first Bollwyood entrant in the Rs 300-crore club.