<p class="title">Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's "Race 3" has set a new opening day box office collection record in Pakistan despite being released a week after the Eid festival holidays.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Box Office Details website, "Race 3" did a business of Rs 2.25 crore approximately on its opening day on Saturday beating "Avengers Infinity War" and the top Pakistani release, "7 Din Mohabbat Kay".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film, directed by Remo D'Souza, released eight days late in Pakistan after the government imposed a ban on the screening of Indian films two days before and one week after the Eid holiday period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ban was imposed so that four big banner Pakistani films and other smaller regional language releases on Eid do good business without competition from Bollywood movies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three of the four big banner films were not well received while the Mahira Khan starrer "7 Din Mohabat Kay" had a respectable business, raking in Rs 8.65 crore approximately from its release on Eid day (June 16) to this Friday (June 22).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eid holidays were celebrated in Pakistan from June 15 to 18.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Javed Sheikh's "Wajood", another big star release on Eid, also managed a total collection of just 2.55 crore in a week's time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Mahira Khan-starrer had collected just Rs 1.5 crore on its opening day despite the ban on Bollywood releases.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website said "Race 3" collections were the best for any Hindi film released this year in Pakistan, making it the third biggest single-day collection for any Hindi film and the highest for 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film minted Rs 2.62 crore by Saturday after it started screening with a few midnight shows at some cineplexes in Karachi and Lahore on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website said "Race 3" had made the collections despite having lesser shows than "Avengers" at some cineplexes. </p>
<p class="title">Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's "Race 3" has set a new opening day box office collection record in Pakistan despite being released a week after the Eid festival holidays.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Box Office Details website, "Race 3" did a business of Rs 2.25 crore approximately on its opening day on Saturday beating "Avengers Infinity War" and the top Pakistani release, "7 Din Mohabbat Kay".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film, directed by Remo D'Souza, released eight days late in Pakistan after the government imposed a ban on the screening of Indian films two days before and one week after the Eid holiday period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ban was imposed so that four big banner Pakistani films and other smaller regional language releases on Eid do good business without competition from Bollywood movies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three of the four big banner films were not well received while the Mahira Khan starrer "7 Din Mohabat Kay" had a respectable business, raking in Rs 8.65 crore approximately from its release on Eid day (June 16) to this Friday (June 22).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eid holidays were celebrated in Pakistan from June 15 to 18.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Javed Sheikh's "Wajood", another big star release on Eid, also managed a total collection of just 2.55 crore in a week's time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Mahira Khan-starrer had collected just Rs 1.5 crore on its opening day despite the ban on Bollywood releases.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website said "Race 3" collections were the best for any Hindi film released this year in Pakistan, making it the third biggest single-day collection for any Hindi film and the highest for 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film minted Rs 2.62 crore by Saturday after it started screening with a few midnight shows at some cineplexes in Karachi and Lahore on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website said "Race 3" had made the collections despite having lesser shows than "Avengers" at some cineplexes. </p>