Akshay Kumar-starrer Mission Mangal has covered a fifth of its budget on the first day — and it has 3 more days in the opening weekend

• The movie based on India’s space mission to Mars was made at a budget of ₹xx crore
  
• Akshay Kumar's Mission Mangal crossed ₹29 crore within 24 hours of release
  
• It is the highest collection among all the Akshay Kumar's films.
  
• Mission Mangal is based on the all-women team that led India's mission to Mars.
  

Akshay Kumar-starrer Mission Mangal crossed ₹29 crore within 24 hours of release-- that’s over 20% of the movie’s total budget of ₹140 crore.

The movie, based on India’s space mission to Mars, has been released on a long weekend-- owing to the holiday on August 15 for Independence Day-- and that is expected to boost collections. Mission Mangal’s show witnessed an overall occupancy of 50-55% across India, $4 Business Today.

It is the highest collection among all the Akshay Kumar's films, $4Hindustan Times. Before this, $4 ₹23.67 crore nett on its first day.

The movie starring Akshay Kumar as the lead has a predominantly female star cast including Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Nithya Menon released on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) 50th anniversary.

$4 has showcased the role that women had to play in the mission’s success.

However, while it’s true that women had a lot of key contributions to Mangalyaan, the mission wasn’t as dominated by women as Mission Mangal’s trailer would have you believe. At the time of the launch, the $4 had as many as 14 senior male scientists present and only 3 female scientists.

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However, the movie has opened with some great reviews. According to$4 Mission Mangal is ‘one of the best films of 2019’. Devansh Sharma from the First Post $4 India should be proud of this inspiring film

John Abraham starrer Batla House that was released alongside Mission Mangal also witnessed a good opening at the box office with ₹13-15 crore.

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