‘Pathaan’, superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s return to the big screen after four years, has raised Rs 901 crore gross at the worldwide box office.

According to Yash Raj Films (YRF), the Siddharth Anand directorial raised Rs 5.90 crore nett in India on its third Friday.

“The total worldwide gross is an incredible Rs 901 crore (India gross : Rs 558.40 crore, overseas: Rs 342.60 crore)” the studio said in a press note, according to a PTI report from Mumbai.

YRF said ‘Pathaan’ has become the highest grossing Hindi film worldwide in the history of Hindi cinema. The stylish action thriller follows the titular spy (Shah Rukh) who comes out of exile to stop terrorist group Outfit X from launching a debilitating attack on India.

The film also features John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Dimple Kapadia and Ashutosh Rana.

‘Pathaan’ is the fourth movie in YRF’s ambitious spy universe, following Salman Khan’s ‘Ek Tha Tiger” (2012), ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ (2017) and ‘War’, featuring Hrithik Roshan (2019).

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Shah Rukh credited Anand and producer Aditya Chopra for the film’s record breaking success at the box office.

“I think this genre of film nobody knows better than Siddharth. He knows this kind of cinema very well. I just love the world that Siddharth makes,” the superstar said in a behind-the-scenes video released by YRF, according to PTI.

“It’s an action film that is close to my heart. I think it is made with a lot of goodness by a lot of good people… I think it’s cinematic, which is the call of the day. It’s a film you want to watch on a big screen,” he added.

Fans of Shah Rukh are still queuing up outside cinema halls to watch the action spectacle.

“I think Pathaan is fun, it’s happy, it’s good looking, it’s technically quite forward, lovely locations, lovely songs, beautiful people and I think the action is very nice!” he said.