The director SS Rajamouli, who once created the “Baahubali: The Beginning” series of box office myths, has made another super work. His new film “Roudram Ranam Rudhiram” was released in India on March 25, and the film’s opening box office was as high as 65.6 million US dollars (approx. 414 million RMB).
Not only did this action film sell well in India, the film grossed $9.5 million in North America, taking third place in the North American weekend box office chart, and also setting the record for the highest opening of an Indian film in North America.
“Roudram Ranam Rudhiram” is a fictional story set in 1920s India, the story revolves around two Indian self-revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan Teja) and Komaram Bheem (NT Rama Rao Jr. .play) Expand.
They were friends, and their common enemy was the British colonists.
The Chinese viewers who have seen it think that this film is a bit like the Indian version of “hand tearing Japanese soldiers”. For details, you can refer to the style of the trailer below.
The film opened in India on March 25 in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam, and grossed $29.2 million on its first day.
The “Baahubali: The Beginning” series grossed US$370 million worldwide and around RMB 83 million in mainland China.
According to reports, the production cost of “Roudram Ranam Rudhiram” is about $52 million, and the film was originally scheduled to be released on July 30, 2020.
The release date has been pushed back to October 13, 2021, due to production delays on the film itself and the outbreak. After that, it was postponed several times, and it was not released until March 25 this year.
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