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`My Name Is Khan' has set a new all-time career record for Shah Rukh Khan by becoming the Bollywood star's top-grossing film in North America with total sales of $3,635,000 after 17 days of release.
The film surpassed Khan's old record of $3,597,372 for 2007's `Om Shanti Om' and continues to play in 119 theaters across the US and Canada in its third week of play. On Feb 22, after only 11 days of release, `My Name Is Khan' also became the highest grossing film ever for director Karan Johar beating the $3,275,444 of 2006's `Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' which starred Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Abhishek Bachchan.
A week earlier, with a Sunday sale of $761,000, `My Name Is Khan' recorded the highest one-day gross ever for any Hindi-language film in North America. The film's Feb 12-14 opening weekend sales of $1,939,000 was again a new record for a Hindi film beating the $1,764,131 of 2007's `Om Shanti Om'.
With an estimated four-day opening weekend figure of $2,275,000, it was the fastest Hindi film ever to break the $2,000,000 mark. It beat the previous record of 5 days set in December by `3 Idiots' which grossed $2,149,227 in its five-day opening over the Christmas holiday weekend. In North America, `My Name Is Khan' was distributed by Fox Searchlight and marketed by Box Office Guru.
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