Animal Box Office Day 8: Ranbir’s Film To Cross 350Cr Ahead Of 2nd Weekend; To Beat Sanju’s Lifetime Earnings

Ranbir Kapoor starrer Animal has emerged as the biggest releases of the year. Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the movie was is touted to be a gory action drama and comes with a promising cast of Ranbir, Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Bobby Deol and Suresh Oberoi. Animal opened to thunderous response from the audience and ever since then, it has been ruling the box office with earth-shattering numbers.

It not just emerged as Ranbir's biggest opener and the second highest opener of all times after Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan. Animal has been roaring loud through the entire week and has been achieving new milestones almost every day. After the action drama crossed Rs 300 crores on sixth day and made an overall collection of Rs 338.85 crores on day 7 (first Thursday), Animal is inching towards the second weekend with a continued winning streak.

Interestingly, given the trend and the movie's strong hold, Animal is expected to mint around 23-25 crores and cross Rs 350 crores mark today (day 8/ first Friday). It is undoubtedly unstoppable at the box office and will also be achieving another milestone today. Yes! Animal will be crossing the lifetime collection of Sanju and will emerge as Ranbir Kapoor's biggest hit ever. For the uninitiated, Sanju had made the lifetime collection of Rs 342.53 crores in India

Interestingly, Animal is witnessing a box office clash with Vicky Kaushal's biographical war drama Sam Bahadur. Talking about the clash, Vicky told Indian Express, "When two opening batsmen come to the crease, playing for the same team, you won't say that the two batsmen are clashing with each other; they are playing for a single team, so we are playing for Hindi cinema". Meanwhile, Ranbir's Animal has managed to crush Sam Bahadur at the box office and this is evident with a huge gap in their collections.