In the second week of its release, ‘Bajirao Mastani’ has taken over ‘Dilwale’ at the box office. This goes to show that people living overseas have taste in movies! No kidding! Despite Shah Rukh Khan’s efforts of marketing ‘Dilwale’ overseas, more people are still choosing to watch ‘Bajirao Mastani’. It’s hard to say for now whether the people overseas are watching ‘Bajirao Mastani’ for Ranveer Singh or Deepika Padukone or both, or maybe they are watching it because it’s a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. We all know ‘Dilwale’ will at the beginning perform well because people are excited to see Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol back together after so long on the big screen. But again in this battle, WOM (word of mouth) got around that spending money on ‘Bajirao Mastani’ was better than wasting it on ‘Dilwale’ (not our words, but directly from a movie watcher, who went to see ‘Dilwale’ with so much enthusiam).

In 10 days in international markets:

INTERNATIONAL MARKETS TOTAL:

Bajirao Mastani – $1,881,902
Dilwale – $1,765,560

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bajirao Mastani – $3,569,241
Dilwale – $3,091,517

AUSTRALIA

Bajirao Mastani – A$739,419
Dilwale – AUD 951,979

CANADA

Bajirao Mastani – US$706,624
Dilwale – US$227,526

NEW ZEALAND

Bajirao Mastani – NZ$153,708
Dilwale – NZD 514,958

UNITED KINGDOM

Bajirao Mastani – £762,328
Dilwale – £1,764,877

MALAYSIA

Bajirao Mastani – MYR56,822
Dilwale – MYR963,220