Young tiger NTR Jr has become the first Tollywood hero to score a hat-trick of $1.5 million grossers in US.
After Nannaku Prematho (2M in lifetime) and Janatha Garage (1.8M in lifetime), Jai Lava Kusa has become the third successive NTR-starrer to go past $1.5M mark in US. This is a phenomenal feat considering all the three films received mixed word of mouth. JLK went past the 1.5M mark on Saturday.
Superstar Mahesh Babu is the only other hero to have 3 films going past 1.5 million mark – Dookudu, SVSC and Srimanthudu – but they were not consecutive releases.
Coming back to ‘Jai Lava Kusa’, the film still needs to collect around $200K to attain break even status. The film has slowed down but still raking in significant amounts.