Mission Mangal starring Akshay Kumar in the lead along with Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti Kulhari, Nithya Menen and Sharman Joshi has continued its phenomenal run at the India box office in its second weekend. After witnessing an upward trend on Friday due to Janmashtami festivities, the space drama saw a big jump in its collection on Saturday as well. The multi-starrer film raked in Rs 13.32 crore on day 10, bringing its total collection to Rs 149.31 crore in India which is mighty impressive. With that, Mission Mangal has now become the fourth highest grossing film of 2019. Mission Mangal Box Office Collection 9: Akshay Kumar's Space Drama Becomes His Third Highest Grossing Film Ever, Mints Rs 135.99 Crore

Announcing the good news, film trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to the microblogging site Twitter a while back and wrote, “#MissionMangal continues its dream run... Numbers zoom upwards on [second] Sat, with #Janmashtami festivities giving its biz that extra push... Will emerge fourth highest grossing film of 2019 today [Sun]... [Week 2] Fri 7.83 cr, Sat 13.32 cr. Total: ₹ 149.31 cr. India biz.”

Adarsh also tweeted, “Top 10... Highest grossing #Hindi films... 2019 releases...1. #KabirSingh 2. #Uri 3. #Bharat 4. #MissionMangal 5. #Kesari 6. #TotalDhamaal 7. #Super30 8. #GullyBoy 9. #DeDePyaarDe 10. #Manikarnika India biz. Mission Mangal Box Office Collection Day 8: Akshay Kumar Starrer Has a Solid Extended Week 1, Rakes in Rs 128.16 Crore

With two super hit films to his credit this year, 2019 has definitely turned out to be very fruitful for Akshay Kumar. The talented actor has two more films lined-up for release - Good News and Housefull 4. This means the Akshay show has just started and the actor is going to rake in a lot more moolah before ending the year on a high note.

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