Border 2 continued its glorious run at the box office on Monday, confounding all trade expectations. While the film was expected to garner big numbers on Republic Day, the final Monday collections surpassed all estimates.

According to Sacnilk.com, the Sunny Deol starrer earned 59 crore (nett) at domestic box office on day 4. That’s an 8 percent hike from its Sunday figures which were already huge at Rs 54.5 crore. The film’s domestic earnings stand at Rs 178 crore (nett), as of on Tuesday afternoon. 

The film registered the strongest footfalls in centres like Delhi - NCR, Jaipur, Chandigarh and Lucknow, showing over 75 percent occupancies. 

The war-drama is easily looking at a nett figure in the range of Rs 250-275 crore in its first week. A lot also depends on how well Mardaani 3, the upcoming Rani Mukerji action-thriller that hits theatres on January 30, is received. Nonetheless, Border 2 is now expected to run strongly for at least another 2 weeks, that is until Shahid Kapoor-Triptii Dimri starrer O’Romeo arrives in theatres on February 13. As of now, O’Romeo promises to be the only big theatrical release in February. 

It also remains to be seen whether Border 2 will emerge as the highest grossing film starring Sunny Deol, surpass the lifetime collections of Gadar 2 which collected Rs 526 crore. 

Directed by Anurag Sinha, Border 2 stars Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, and Ahan Shetty in the lead cast. Mona Singh, Anya Singh, Sonam Bajwa and Medha Rane play the female leads. The Border sequel also had surprise cameos from Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar, and Suniel Shetty who starred in the 1997 original.