Angry Birds beats Veerappan at the Indian box office

It doesn’t happen always, but this week Hollywood’s taken a march over Indian Bollywood in box office collections, reports the Hindustan Times. 

 

Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly’s The Angry Birds Movie, surprisingly, beat Ram Gopal Varma’s much hyped Veerappan to the ticket windows, collecting an impressive Rs 2.16 cr, compared to the Rs 1.77 cr the Hindi film could manage. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted about both the films’ opening day figures.

 

RGV’s film is about the dreaded bandit who was killed in 2004, while The Angry Birds Movie is the cinematic transformation of a popular video game.

 

In recent past, Hollywood films like Captain America-- Civil War, The Jungle Book, Batman V Superman and Deadpool left their strong imprints at the Indian box office.