Aashiqui 2 Surpasses Ek Thi Daayan At Koimoi Top 10 – Indian Box Office 2013

Mukul Sharma’s short story translated on screen by Kanan Iyer despite all its three witches in the film failed to create a symphonic chord with its audiences. While a less innovative story worked better at the box office with its relatively fresher star cast, Aashiqui 2 has found a new feather on its cap. By the conclusion of the film’s Monday collections, it was already a hit and leveling up to Vishal Bharadwaj and Ekta Kapoor’s Ek Thi Daayan starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Emraan Hashmi and Huma Qureshi in mesmerizing roles.

With Aashiqui 2‘s Tuesday figures catapulting the film’s total earnings to a hefty 27.25 crore, the film has now surpassed the lifetime collections of Ek Thi Daayan which calculates to 26 crores. Perhaps technically, Ek Thi Daayan was a better film than Aashiqui 2. But Romance as a genre is always preferable to ghastly horror.

Aashiqui 2, which was made on a short budget of 8 crores has clearly earned more than its rightful due perhaps, earning back all its investment within less than a week of its release. The pace of the film is speedy and it is achieving a good record in a very short span of time. It won’t be surprising if before the wake of this Friday’s quintessential releases, Bombay Talkies and Shootout At Wadala, the film manages to match up to its immediate predecessor Jolly LLB which rests at number 8 on the Koimoi Top 10 Movies List of the year, currently with a total earning of 32 crores.

Koimoi.com Bollywood Box Office – Top 10 Indian Movies 2013

(all-India net collections) (in Rs. crores)

Bollywood 2013 Box Office Positions	Movie	Lead Stars	Directors	India Nett Collection in Crores
1	Race 2	Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham	Abbas Mustan	102
2	Special Chabbis (26)	Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher	Neeraj Pandey	70
3	Kai Po Che!	Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Raj Kumar Yadav	Abhishek Kapoor	50
4	ABCD – Any Body Can Dance	Prabhu Deva, Kay Kay Menon	Remo D’Souza	45.50
5	Himmatwala	Ajay Devgn, Tamannaah	Sajid Khan	45
6	Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola	Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Pankaj Kapur	Vishal Bhardwaj	42
7	Chashme Baddoor	Ali Zafar, Divyendu Sharma, Siddharth, Taapsee Pannu	David Dhawan	38
8	Jolly LLB	Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani	Subhash Kapoor	32
9	Aashiqui 2	Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor, Shaad Randhawa	Mohit Suri	27.25*
10	Ek Thi Daayan	Emraan Hashmi, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin	Kannan Iyer	26