Newton collections: Rajkummar Rao's powerful act mints over Rs 17 cr

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New Delhi: India's official entry to Oscars this year Newton is on victory march. The film is raking in the moolah at the Box Office. The film's business surged soon after the Oscar news was announced and has generated audiences' interest in watching an intelligent cinematic delight.

Directed by Amit V Masurkar, the story of Newton shows how a government clerk, who is sent on an election duty to a Naxal-controlled town in the conflict-ridden jungles of Chattisgarh faces several hardships while trying to conduct a fair voting procedure. And this makes for a fine watch.

Noted film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter and shared the latest Box Office figures of the film.

#Newton has a ROCK-STEADY Mon... [Week 2] Fri 91 lakhs, Sat 1.66 cr, Sun 1.75 cr, Mon 1.44 cr. Total: ₹ 17.59 cr. India biz.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) October 3, 2017

Newton released on September 22, 2017, and faced a clash with big Bollywood commercial ventures such as Sanjay Dutt's Bhoomi and Shraddha Kapoor's Haseena Parkar biopic.