‘Dhurandhar’ Sequel Sets North American Record, ‘Forbidden Fruits’ Cracks Top 10 – Specialty Box Office

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Bollywood hit Dhurandhar: The Revenge from Moviegoers. Entertainment is no. 4 in its second weekend on 987 screens with a gross of $4.9 million and a cume of $22.9 million. Aditya Dhar directs Ranveer Singh as an undercover agent in Pakistan in a rare Indian film to keep a top ranking for a second weekend. And (at 95% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes from over 1,000 ratings, it’s also broken the the record for highest grossing Indian movie at the North American box office, held since 2017 by Baahubali 2: The Conclusion.

It’s still tough out there for indie features and docs although IFC’s witchy mall comedy Forbidden Fruits managed to round out the top ten with $1.7 million at 1,525 locations. The genre title, which just premiered at SXSW, was powered by a 73% female audience. Meredith Alloway’s feature debut stars Lilly Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp and Lola Tung as

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