While pan-India films have been the norm in the last few years, superstar Shah Rukh Khan's film saw a pan-India celebration. Fans of the star from across the country not only watched the film on its release day but celebrated the film with cakes, firecrackers and garlanding on life-sized posters of the King. The fans truly gave a King's welcome to Khan

Fans also garlanded posters of the film. On day 1 itself, the film broke several records at the box office. With a India collection of Rs. 57 crore, the film crossed Rs. 100 crore worldwide on release day. It became the highest opening for a Hindi film in the history of Indian cinema. Soon, it also became the fasted Hindi film to cross Rs. 200 crore at the box office in two days. The film has already broken opening records of films like KGF 2 and Baahubali 2.

Pic Location: Baruipur, West Bengal

Chants of 'We Love SRK' to audience grooving to 'Jhoome Jo Pathaan' in cinema halls, fans showered love on the superstar. 

Pic location- Mumbai

For the first time in 32 years, the Housefull board was pulled out to display at the INOX in Kashmir

As for the film, 'Pathaan' is directed by Siddharth Anand of 'War' fame and also stars Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, and Ashutosh Rana in pivotal roles. The film is part of YRF's Spy Universe which also included Salman Khan's Tiger and Hrithik Roshan's 'War' in which he plays Kabir. Salman Khan had a cameo in Pathaan and SRK will be returning the favour in Tiger 3

Not just India, but celebrations were seen taking place in several places across the world. While the above picture is from Nepal, fans were seen celebrating the film in London, Austria, and New York

Spread you arms, spread the joy as you watch Pathaan in the coming weekend! 

Pic location: Beed, Maharashtra