Fawad Khan's The Legend of Maula Jatt beats new Indian releases at North America, UK box office

Pakistani film The Legend of Maula Jatt, starring Fawad Khan, has outdone Bollywood biggies Ram Setu and Thank God in the US and UK market.

This week’s two major Bollywood releases Thank God and Ram Setu have been able to achieve only moderate success at the box office.

While Ram Setu’s numbers in India are still promising, overseas the film has been unable to achieve the kind of success previous Diwali releases did.

The Legend of Maula Jatt is the biggest Pakistani film ever made.

It released two weeks ago and has already become the highest-grossing Pakistani film ever and the first from the country to gross PKR 100 crore.

The film also stars Mahira Khan, Hamza Ali Abbasi, and Humaima Malik.

A Dawn report states that on its 13th day of release, The Legend of Maula Jatt earned $46,825 from 56 screens in the UK, completely dwarfing the collections of the two Bollywood releases.

On the same day, Ajay Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra's Thank God earned $19,472 from 83 screens and Akshay Kumar's Ram Setu collected $16,595 from 95 screens.

This is despite the fact that it was only the third day since release for both the films.

The Legend of Maula Jatt is a Punjabi language film and is directed by Bilal Lashari.

It is Fawad’s first full-length role in a film since the 2015 Bollywood release Kapoor & Sons.

[Source: Hindustan Times]