Rajinikanth-Aishwarya starrer 'Endhiran' has made Rs 117 crore during the initial week.

The said figure has exceeded the first-week earnings of Salman-Sonakshi starrer 'Dabangg', which becomes the highest first-week grosser of the Hindi film industry after garnering Rs 82 crore.

According to Suniel Wadhwa, Distributor and trade analyst, ''The film has got a net collection of Rs 60 crore in TN, Rs 30 crore in AP, Rs 8 crore in Karnataka, Rs 4 crore in Kerala and Hindi version Robot Rs 15 crore. Looking at the trend the film has crossed Dabangg's two weeks net collection in its first week itself.''

'Endhiran' had a massive impact with its 2200 prints released worldwide.

On the other hand, 'Dabangg' released across 1,400 screens.

An industry source said, ''More than one-and-half times extra screens means the revenue earned is nearly four times extra and that is also helping the film. Also about 92% of cinema halls are running the film and the collection continue to be rock steady.'' The film's report in the Hindi belt too is quite good. Distributor Sunil Bohra said, ''The collection of the film in places like Jodhpur, Ghaziabad, and Meerut continue to remain steady and the film is doing well both in single screen and multiplexes across states.''

As per industry sources, since the entertainment tax arrangement was different in the south, it is hard to get the gross box office collection.

However, they stated that the flick had definitely earned Rs 260 crore that was over the full collection of Aamir-Asin starrer 'Ghajini'.

Bohra said, ''The film has easily made a gross collection of Rs 200 crore plus which is nearly double of Dabangg.''

Robot's Hindi edition has also done a biz of around Rs 30 crore during the initial week.

Amod Mehra said, ''Robot has broken all the norms of a dubbed film. I don't remember any dubbed film crossing even the one crore mark."