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"Salman Khan&amp;#039;s Dabangg 2 has broken the record for the biggest non-holiday opener. The film took 21.10 crore in India on its opening day at the box office, beating the 15.1 crore previously set by Rowdy Rathore.  &amp;quot;The figures have broken the record of Akshay Kumar&amp;#039;s Rowdy Rathore being &amp;#039;Biggest Opener for Non-Holiday Release&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; reports Koi Moi. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh said that the film would not match the 32.92 crore set by Khan&amp;#039;s Ek Tha Tiger as the earlier movie&amp;#039;s release coincided with India&amp;#039;s Independence Day holiday. &amp;quot;Biggest opener [holiday] #EkThaTiger 32.92 cr ... Biggest opener [non-holiday] #RowdyRathore 15.1 cr ... #Dabangg2 is non-holiday opener. #Dabangg2 1st day will be lower than #EkThaTiger 1st day [15 Aug holiday]. ETT Day 2 was much lower [14.55 cr], since it was a working day,&amp;quot; Adarsh posted on Twitter. Khan previously spoke to Digital Spy about why he prefers to release his films during a holiday period. &amp;quot;The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;Eid is a festive date where people have saved money, families get together, and people get together to watch films. After the IPL cricket matches also is a good time, because nobody releases their film during the matches, so movie wise, there is a hunger for entertainment after the IPL.&amp;quot; The action project made \u00C2\u00A3101,030 in the UK, AU$80,808 in Australia and NZ$20,648 in New Zealand on its first Friday. The original Dabangg grossed 187.5 crore when it came out in 2010 and was declared an All Time Blockbuster.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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