MUMBAI: Despite CAA protests across the nation, Salman Khan's Dabangg 3 has managed to take a good opening at the box office, as the commercial entertainer raked in around Rs 24 crore at the domestic market. With this number, Dabangg 3 has emerged as the ninth biggest opener of Salman Khan and has beaten the first day collections of films like Tubelight, Bodyguard, Jai Ho and others.

Top openers of Salman Khan

Bharat - Rs 42.30 crore

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo - Rs 40.35 crore

Sultan - Rs 36.54 crore

Tiger Zinda Hai - Rs 34.10 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - Rs 32.92 crore

Race 3 - Rs 29.17 crore

Bajrangi Bhaijaan - Rs 27.25 crore

Kick - Rs 26 crore

Dabangg 3 - Rs 24 crore

Tubelight - Rs 21.15 crore

Dabangg 2 - Rs 21.10 crore

Bodyguard - Rs 21.00 crore

Jai Ho- Rs 17.50 crore

Dabangg - Rs 14.50 crore

Ready - Rs 13 crore

As  we are expecting  that  this weekend  a  great jump which will raise the movie momentum at the next level. Interestingly, Salman Khan had written the script  of Dabang 3. Talking about the writing process of Dabangg 3 told, Salman Khan told us, "It just happened. We were talking that we should make Dabangg 3 and we were wondering what could Dabangg 3 be about and then we though that we should start it from the beginning and everything started falling into place. Just the fact we thought about this started everything and then we explored how he (his character) became Chulbul Pandey. This idea also just came about. So then, Arbaaz and I watched the film (the previous two parts) again and we started brainstorming ideas and it was through this brainstorming session that we got our story. Then we added action and songs as they were needed because everything else already came to us.

Directed by Prabhu Deva, the film also features Sonakshi Sinha, Saiee Manjrekar and Kichcha Sudeepa in key roles.