With $217-mn collections, Dangal becomes biggest Bollywood hit abroad

Dangal has not only exceeded another Aamir Khan film PK, but gone on to gross four-and-half times its overseas business

Amid the gloom that Bollywood finds itself in, one film is making waves more than six months after its release. Disney’s penultimate production in Bollywood, Dangal, is going strong in the overseas market, zooming past competition, having collected $217 million. The biopic about the Phogat sisters released in India in December 2016, and collected Rs 388 crore at the domestic box office. 

Dangal has grossed four-and-half times the overseas business of PK, the most successful Bollywood film ever before this.

As is the norm with overseas distribution, the Aamir Khan-starrer was released abroad in tranches, beginning with traditional overseas territories