MUMBAI — Hear that? It's the collective outrush of breath from Bollywood pundits as director Shoojit Sircar's “Piku” races past the Rs 100 crore ($15.6 million) mark worldwide, putting the movie in Bollywood's elite 100 Crore Club, NDTV reported. “Piku” stars Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan in a slice-of-life story set in Delhi's Chittaranjan Park and Kolkata. On Facebook, Bachchan exulted: “FB 977 - ‘PIKU' world wide 100 cr .. !! Wow !! never expected this from the film. Thank you all, you made it happen ..” In addition to the movie's tremendous success is the just-released “Tanu Weds Manu Returns” with its opening weekend business of Rs 38 crore and Akshay Kumar's “Gabbar Is Back” which revived the comatose Bollywood box office some four weekends ago. Industrywallahs will be singing hallelujahs to the reversal of fortune after the first quarter of the year ended on the gloom and doom of zero hit movies. The hurrahs may need not die down any time soon. Zoya Akhtar's star-packed “Dil Dhadakne Do” releases in June and Salman Khan's “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” in July. - Agencies
