India, Aug. 2 -- Kingdom box office collection day 3: Telugu star Vijay Deverakonda is garnering praise for his performance in his recent release, Kingdom. The spy-action drama was released in theatres on July 31 after several delays. The film opened to a decent start, and despite seeing a drop on the second day, it held well on the first Saturday.

According to Sacnilk, Vijay's film earned Rs.18 crore on day one of its release. However, it witnessed a decline of 58.33% on day 2 and earned only Rs.7.5 crore. On its third day, it earned Rs.6.8 crore, taking the total collection of the film to Rs.32.3 crore. The film is now inching closer to beating the domestic collection of Vijay's film Liger ( Rs.41 crore), which marked his grand debut i...