In trade circles the continuous buzz was that no one has been able to touch the ticket sales of 3 Idiots. Until now the only movie to have had a ticket sales of 3 crore was 3 Idiots. That has been the total capacity of any Hindi movie.
PK has made Rs 340 crore at the India box office and has reached a magical figure of 3.5 crore ticket sales at the box office beating Aamir's previous best. PK has emerged as the top 'ticketed' movie in India even leaving behind Rajkumar Hirani and Aamir Khan’s preceding collaboration 3 Idiots which has been topping the chart all these years.
The success of a movie is also measured by the tickets it has sold at the theatres. So far 3 Idiots which had garnered huge appreciation held a record among the Bollywood movies in India of selling the uppermost tickets. The movie which has a very high repeat value sold about 3 crore tickets across the country.
But Raju and Aamir's PK has broken that record and risen to the top by an additional 50 lakh tickets. So the total sales of PK sums upto 3.5 cr tickets. Vidhu Vinod Chopra who has been a producer on both the movies was overwhelmed when he heard about this.
Rajkumar Hirani and Aamir Khan have been record frames since 3 Idiots and now they have broken their own record with PK.
