MUMBAI: Sony Pictures' Terminator Salvation has grossed Rs 47 million at the box office in India in its opening weekend.

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Terminator Salvation focuses on the war between humanity and Skynet. John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row.

Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Said SPE Films Managing Director Kercy Daruwala, "We are pleased to report that Terminator Salvation has grossed Rs. 47 million in its opening weekend. The film is working as per our high expectations. The special effects and action sequences in the film are sort of that audiences have not yet seen before and this instalment of the Terminator series. Being an action-packed film, and part of the extremely popular Terminator series, we see huge potential for this film in English as well as dubbed languages such as Hindi, Tamil and Telugu as well."