Team India captain MS Dhoni’s biopic ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ has taken a phenomenal opening at the box office on its opening day to emerge the 2nd highest opener of 2016, beating Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Fan’.While MS Dhoni collected a staggering Rs 21.30 crore on its opening day, Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Fan’, which released in April this year, could collect only Rs 19.20 crore. Box office behemoth Salman Khan’s ‘Sultan’ is the only film ahead of Dhoni biopic.

Here are the Top 5 box office openers of 2016:

1. Sultan – 36.54 cr
2. MS Dhoni: The Untold Story – 21.30 cr
3. Fan – 19.20 cr
4. Housefull 3 – 15.21 cr
5. Rustom – 14.11 cr

Akshay Kumar’s ‘Housefull 3’ and ‘Rustom’ are in the 3rd and 4th places. It is an unbelievable feat for the biopic of a cricketer to take bigger opening than a Shah Rukh Khan starrer. Packed multiplexes as well as single screens enunciate the popularity of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Since it was the real life story of Dhoni, is pulled the crowd to theatres like a magnet does to iron.The reviews are mostly above average so we can expect stellar numbers on Saturday and Sunday as well.