Box office business: Aamir Khan's Dangal inches closer to Salman Khan's Sultan

#Dangal crosses 150 cr on Day 5 [Tue]... Now racing towards 200 cr... Continues its EXTRAORDINARY run on weekdays... India biz.

taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 28, 2016

The film continued a steady show during weekdays. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted the film's earnings.

#Dangal Fri 29.78 cr, Sat 34.82 cr, Sun 42.35 cr, Mon 25.48 cr, Tue 23.07 cr. Total: 155.53 cr. India biz. AWESOME!

taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 28, 2016

Dangal has also impressed the Indian audience abroad, with strong figures emerging from overseas.

The film has already crossed Rs 100 crore overseas, Adarsh wrote in another tweet.  

#Dangal races towards 100 cr in the international arena... OVERSEAS - Till Tue: $ 13.82 million [ 94.29 cr]. Some screens yet to report.

taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 28, 2016

Dangal features among the top earning films of 2016, but it remains to be seen if it can defeat Salman Khan's Sultan, another film based on wrestling.

With a budget of 90 crore, in just 12 days of its release, Sultan earned more than Rs 500 crore worldwide. It had also witnessed a massive opening on the first two days with Rs 73.74 crores.

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Dangal is inspired from a the real life story of female Indian wrestlers and sisters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari.

The film shows the lengths to which Geeta and Babita's father Mahavir Singh Phogat, who himself was a wrestler, goes to train his daughters in Harayana where women wrestlers were earlier unheard of.