Is RRR Hit Or Flop? Indian Epic Drama 'RRR' Makes History at The USA Box Office

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The recently released Indian Telugu language epic period drama ‘RRR’ has received mostly positive reviews from the audience and critics, especially for the star cast performance and screenplay. Not only this, but ‘RRR’ also performed excellently at the box office, including the Indian and International box office, and ‘RRR’ is currently the second-highest-grossing Indian film at the USA box office, after ‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’ (2017).

Is RRR Hit Or Flop?

According to reports, the Indian epic period drama ‘RRR’ was released in the United States on 25 March 2022 in more than 1200 theatres, so far collected $11.11 million in the USA and Canada^[1]. While the USA and Canada’s distribution rights cost of ‘RRR’ is est $5 million, and the USA distributor of ‘RRR’ is the Indian international distributor company Phars Films. $11 million is not any good amount for American films, but still, American news portals declared ‘RRR’ as a hit film at the USA box office, cause collecting $11 million in the USA is no easy task for Indian films.

Talking About worldwide performance, according to Indian news portals, the ‘RRR’ has so far collected $150 million at the global box office, against the budget of $70 million (Including prints and advertising costs), and overall, the Indian news portal declared ‘RRR’ as an India’s secound biggest hit film of 2022 at the worldwide box office, after ‘KGF: Chapter 2’. Not only this, according to reports, ‘RRR’ has become the fourth highest-grossing Indian film of all time at the worldwide box office.

Talking about critical responses, then ‘RRR’ received a 8/10* IMDb rating based on 98k votes, and on Rotten Tomatoes, it is scored 91/100% based on 58 reviews.

‘RRR’

The director of ‘RRR’ is one of the best Indian directors SS Rajamouli and stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris, and written by K. V. Vijayendra Prasad. The ‘RRR’ was produced under the production banners of DVV Entertainment and produced by D. V. V. Danayya.

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