'Jai Ho' garners Rs 78.90 crore in 3 days

Salman Khan starrer Jai Ho has earned Rs 101.26 crore worldwide registering a strong opening, film entertainment  company Eros International Media Limited (Eros International) said in a release on  Monday. The company describes the figure as strong opening weekend for the movie, despite a non-holiday weekend.

Produced by Eros International and Sohail Khan Productionz, the movie released across approximately 5,000 screens worldwide on January 24th, 2014.  
 
The movie collected a significant Rs 78.90 crore gross (Rs 60.68 crore nett) in India and  Rs 22.36 crore ($3.55 million) overseas.  At the domestic box office, the film collected Rs 17.75 crore on Friday followed by Rs 16.68 crore on Saturday. The film's collections showed a massive jump of 64% on Sunday garnering an attractive Rs 26.25 crore at the domestic box office .
 
Speaking on the film opening, Nandu Ahuja, Senior vice-president, India Theatrical, Eros International Media Limited said, "Salman fans have given a huge thumbs up to Jai Ho. The film is packed with Salman style action along with the emotion and message of the human chain of goodness and it has touched the right chord with his fans. This is an outstanding opening and his highest where we didn't have the added advantage of a long weekend."

Directed by Sohail Khan, Jai Ho also stars Tabu, Daisy Shah and Danny Denzongpa in important roles.