Hrithik Roshan starrer Super 30 is a biopic inspired by the life of Anand Kumar. The film crossed the 50-crore club in its first week itself.
Despite being in theatres for only 5 weeks now, the film has surpassed the lifetime collection of Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt’s Gully Boy (Rs 140.25 crore) by earning Rs 141.80 crore this week.
Directed by Vikas Bahl, the film has crossed Rs 200 crore mark worldwide by earning Rs 201.66 crore, reported Bollywood Hungama and has minted $5.038 million internationally.
Mumbai (Rs 43.90 crore), Delhi-UP circuit (Rs 29.29 crore), West Bengal (Rs 8.43 crore) and Mysore (Rs 8.53 crore) are the major contributors to Super 30's box office collections.
Super 30 has now become the sixth highest grossing film of the year following Kabir Singh (at number 1), Uri: The Surgical Strike (at number 2), Bharat (at number 3), Kesari (at number 4) and Total Dhamaal (at number 5).
Super 30 is based on a real life-life story of a Bihar based award-winning Academician Anand Kumar. The title of the movie has derived from Kumar’s programme in which hetutors, provides study materials and manages the lodging of 30 economically underprivileged children for IIT-JEE entrance examinations every year, all completely free.
Anand Kumar has earned recognition through this programme in which all of his 30 students or almost all of them crack the IIT-JEE entrance examinations.
In the film, Hrithik Roshan plays the role of Anand Kumar and Mrunal Thakur plays the role of his wife. Pankaj Tripathi, Virendra Saxena, Aditya Srivastava, Manav Gohil and Amit Sadh are also seen playing significant roles. Owing to the film's inspirational story, the film has been declared tax free in several states like- Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Gujarat.