As we know, Power Star Pawan Kalyan's 'Atharintiki Daredi' and Mega Power Star Ram Charan's 'Magadheera' collected Rs.81 crores and Rs.78 crores respectively with their Telugu versions and got industry hit statuses in respective periods of their release.
SS Rajamouli's 'Baahubali', amidst huge hype, was released in all time record number of screens in Telugu states. It was expected to be a cakewalk the movie breaking the closing collection records set by 'Atharintiki Daredi' and 'Magadheera'. However, the movie carried divided talk on the first day of its release.
Even then, the movie has managed to collect the outstanding first day share of Rs.33 crores to Rs.35 crores through its Telugu version world wide. Having looked into these mind boggling collections, everyone is now expecting the movie would break the full run collection records of AD and MD. However, the 'Word of Mouth' on the movie is not that much encouraging and which doesn't show any impact on the weekends like Saturday and Sunday but may affect the collections on week days. The movie still needs to run steadily for 10 more days to get an industry hit status. It then remains to be seen how well the movie overcomes the 'talk' and to create new records.
PS: Collections of other language versions of the movie should not be considered for assessing the range of the movie in Telugu.