Shah Rukh Khan's Diwali release enters the 100 crore club

Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year breaks record of Dhoom 3 and enters the 100 crore club with its weekend collection. A press release from Red Chillies said: "Happy New Year continued to break records by having the biggest Box Office collection in India for the opening weekend. It has collected Rs. 108.86 crores on the opening weekend all India, with Rs. 104.10 crores in Hindi, Rs. 2.92 crores in Telugu dub and Rs. 1.84 crores in Tamil dub. Happy New Year has become the highest opening weekend ranker in Indian films so far." 

The diwali release earned a record breaking amount on the first day due to the hype. Taran Aadarsh tweets about its box office collection.

#HappyNewYear has a record-breaking *opening weekend* in India. Collects ₹ 108.86 cr [Hindi + Telugu + Tamil]. Breakup in next tweet...

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) October 27, 2014

#HappyNewYear opening weekend biz: Hindi - 104.10 cr, Telugu - 2.92 cr, Tamil - 1.84 cr. Grand total: ₹ 108.86 cr. India biz.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) October 27, 2014

Farah Khan's Happy New Year stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff in lead roles and was released on Diwali weekend, which Srk is well known for.