Rang De Basanti rakes in the moolah !

That the audiences, specially in the big and metropolitan cities in the country, have been turning out in huge numbers to see 'Rang De Basanti' is evident from the film notching up record collectons in its opening week.

The film's collections in Mumbai alone in the opening week were over Rs 4 crore, while it earned close to Rs 2 crore in Delhi in the same week.

Besides, the film has witnessed record collections in 'urban locales' like Goa, Surat, Gandhinagar, Pune, Nasik and Noida as well as 'semi-urban areas like Baroda, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Sangli.

The film's total collections in the opening week all over India were over Rs 8 crore.

In fact, the film, released on January 26, is being seen in film trade circles as the first big hit of the year considering most other films released in the first month of the year, including big budget movies like 'Family' and 'Zinda' opened to lukewarm response at the box office.

The Aamir Khan-starrer also took a stupendous opening in the overseas territories.

In fact, the film's total collections in the US, UK, Australia and Gulf in the opening weekend amounted to Rs 6.25 crore, making it Aamir's biggest opener overseas, better than the actor's last release, 'Mangal Pandey - The Rising'.