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Nandamuri Kalyanram is back with a bang and the actor's latest offering Bimbisara is winning the hearts of the audience. Vassishta is making his debut as a director with this big-budget fantasy thriller. Bimbisara is made on a budget of Rs 35 crores and the trailer caught everyone's attention. Kalyanram played the title role and the film had a super strong weekend at the box-office. Bimbisara collected Rs 18.30 crores in its first weekend all over. The theatrical rights are valued at Rs 15 crores and all the distributors recovered their investments in their first weekend itself.

The entire team is left in happiness and they celebrated the occasion with the distributors. Catherine and Samyuktha are the heroines and Kalyanram played a dual role in Bimbisara. NTR Arts produced the film and the makers recovered the non-theatrical rights through Bimbisara. Kalyanram and his team will be left in huge profits with Bimbisara. The shoot of the sequel will commence later this year and Vassishta is ready with the script of the sequel. Here are the first weekend collections of Bimbisara:

Nizam: Rs 5.72 Cr
Ceeded: Rs 3.40 Cr
Vizag: Rs 2.29 Cr
Guntur: Rs 1.27 Cr
East: Rs 1.03 Cr
West: Rs 0.74 Cr
Krishna: Rs 0.89 Cr
Nellore: Rs 0.50 Cr

AP and Telangana: Rs 15.85 Cr

Rest of India: Rs 1.10 Cr
Rest of World: Rs 1.35 Cr

Total Worldwide: Rs 18.30 Cr