Salman Khan’s Radhe breaks records on Day 1

Salman Khan’s Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai garnered 4.2 million views on its release day, making it the most-watched movie on Day 1. The movie was released on ZEE5’s pay-per-view platform ZEEPlex and on DTH services.

The movie, which is directed by Prabhudeva, also stars Jackie Shroff, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda and Gautam Gulati. Salman took to Instagram on Friday and shared a poster of the movie with the title, “Creating History”. “Thank u all for the wonderful return gift by making Radhe the most-watched film on day 1. The film Industry would not survive without your love n support. Thank u (sic),” he wrote.

When the movie released on Thursday, ZEE5’s platform crashed multiple times due to heavy traffic as over 1.25 million viewers tried to log in to watch the movie. According to reports the movie has also raked in about Rs 4.4 crores on its first day, which is less considering Salman’s other Eid releases that hit theatres.

However, even before the release of the movie, Salman said that he didn’t expect the film to perform well despite it being an Eid release due to the pandemic. “We will get the lowest numbers out of Radhe. We may not even cross Rs 10-15 crore. Whoever wants to be happy with the lowest number, can be. Some people will be happy with my highest numbers and some with my lowest. We will lose money on Radhe and box office collections are going to be almost zero, but we are still going ahead with (releasing) Radhe,” he said.