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MUMBAI: Bollywood star Salman Khan's first movie since his conviction opened across India on Friday.
Analysts are predicting box office success for his latest Eid blockbuster, report agencies.
The film managed to earn Rs 291.7 million on day 1.
It has become a tradition in the Hindi film industry for Khan, one of the world's highest-paid actors, to star in the big release on the Muslim holiday -- which begins on Saturday in India -- marking the end of Ramadaan.
Action movie "Race 3" is Khan's fifth straight Eid release and his eighth since 2010.
It is also his first film since he was handed a five-year jail sentence in April for shooting dead two rare antelope known as black buck during a 1998 hunting trip.
The 52-year-old, who has repeatedly denied killing the animals, spent two days behind bars before being granted bail.
The bodybuilding actor suffered a rare commercial failure last Eid when "Tubelight", a drama set during the 1962 India-China war, flopped at the box office but analysts expect "Race 3" to soar.
"It's Salman Khan, it's Eid weekend and it's an action franchise that plays to the galleries and has always been successful. I expect it to make great money," film distributor Akshaye Rathi said