Avatar: The Way of Water has beaten Avengers: Endgame (2019) at the box office to emerge as the highest-grossing Hollywood film of all time in India.
James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure film, which released in theatres on December 16, has earned over Rs 454 crore (gross), crossing Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame’s lifetime collection of Rs 438 crore (gross) in India, according to trade reports.
The Way of Water opened to a stupendous collection of Rs 40.5 crore on day one and breached the Rs 100-crore mark in the first weekend itself. The sci-fi epic, set in Pandora, made it to the Rs 200-crore club within the first week.
The James Cameron directorial has beaten 2022 Bollywood blockbusters like Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (Rs 266 crore gross) and The Kashmir Files (Rs 297 crore gross) at the Indian box office.
The Avatar (2009) sequel has also emerged as the seventh-biggest grosser of all time worldwide by collecting USD 1.7 billion, as per Box Office Mojo. Cameron’s 2009 visual epic Avatar currently holds the number one position with USD 2.9 billion. The 1997 romantic tragedy Titanic is third in the list with USD 2.2 billion in lifetime earnings.
Last week, Avatar: The Way of Water beat Tom Cruise-starrer Top Gun: Maverick (USD 1.48 billion) to become the highest grossing movie of 2022. It also beat the lifetime collections of Furious 7 (USD 1.515 billion), The Avengers (USD 1.518 billion), The Lion King (USD 1.66 billion) and Jurassic World (USD 1.67 billion).
Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet, Avatar: The Way of Water tells the story of Jake Sully and his Na’vi family more than a decade after the events of the first film in the franchise.
