Less Mass More Content reason for Vidamuyurchi struggle / Mohanlal Directorial Barroz got Rs 4 cr share for Producer !!!

VIDAAMUYARCHI BOX OFFICE CURRENT REPORT The movie is struggling at the box office right now. The film collected just 90 crores worldwide in 3 days which is quite low for an Ajith film. It needs to collect 185 crores worldwide to break even with a 92 crores distributors share. The positive is for now no Tamil movie is releasing and Thandel is no where to be seen in Tamil theatres. So Vidaamuyarchi has chances to squeak through and become an average grosser. It would have grossed more than this but the negative WOM spoiled the show. Moral :- Even Thala-Thalapathy movies will struggle to break even if the film receives negative WOM. So either give a high content and quality film or give a mass entertaining film. Don’t mix commercial and content. They are like water and oil. Vettaiyan and Vidamuyarchi kind of movies will only work for actors like Ravi Mohan and VJS with lowering the commercial aspects. People expect Thunivu, Jailer, Leo, GOAT kind of movies which delivers mass cooked scenes with high theatrical moments from tier 1 stars (Rajini, Kamal, Vijay, Ajith). Or else their films would flop. That’s why Mankatha, Aarambam, Veeram, Vedalam, Viswasam, Thunivu worked, and Billa 2, Valimai and Vidaamuyarchi didn’t work for Ajith. Only Vijay understands this trick. Suriya, Dhanush, STR and Sivakarthikeyan can work in content oriented films as they are hovering between tier 1 and tier 2. Posted by AROK in Balus box office Day 4 box office ; On its 4th day, the film saw a slight dip in the day-wise collection. According to the early estimates in Sacnilk, the film earned 11.92 crores*. This was a drop of 11% since the Ajith starrer had amassed 13.5 crores on its previous day.The total India net collection of the film now comes to 62.67 crores*. Including the taxes, the gross collection of Vidaamuyarchi comes to 73.95 crores*. The film has earned around 38 crores* when it comes to the overseas collection which is also quite impressive.The worldwide collection of the film now stands at 111.95 crores*. The film has now managed to enter the 100 crore club globally

Truth behind Rs 100 cr gross films revealed Rcent figures put out by Kerala Producers body about what the producers of hit films got says it all. OTT Play has put the figures as Among December releases, Marco and Rifle Club had a theatre share of Rs 12 Cr and Rs 9 Cr against budgets of Rs 9 Cr and Rs 18 Cr, respectively. Mohanlal’s Barroz tanked at the box office, with a theatre share of just Rs 4 Cr against its whopping Rs 112 Cr budget.Asif Ali’s Rekhachithram is the only superhit in January 2025, fetching Rs 12.5Cr for its producer against Rs 8.5 Cr budget. Movies like Tovino Thomas’ Identity, which is currently streaming on ZEE5, and Basil Joseph’s Pravinkoodu Shappu had burned a big hole in their respective producers’ pockets. While the former was made on a budget of Rs 30 Cr, it returned only Rs 3.5Cr to the producer, while Basil’s film had a theatre share of Rs 4 Cr against its Rs 18.5 Cr budget.Explaining the difference between overall gross collection and theatre share, Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce official and director Anil V Thomas tells us, “The figures that are published by makers are overall gross collection. The theatre share, which goes solely to the producer, is only a partial amount of this. For instance, if a movie makes Rs 100, 30% of this goes as tax, and the remaining 70% is divided between the producers, and distributors and exhibitors. For the first week, the producer gets 50%, the second week, 55% and third week onwards, 65% of this share.” So, even a movie like Manjummel Boys, which is the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever, would only have brought in less than Rs 50 Cr as theatre share, explains Anil, adding that no Malayalam movie has fetched Rs 100 Cr theatre share as of now.

Ajith FAN Honest Review of Vidamuyurchi

Verdict : Overall it is an one time watchable action thriller. Keep your expectations low and you will enjoy it. I am mildly satisfied. But don’t worry Good Bad Ugly will be a real celebration for us. Marks - 55–60/100 Review posted AROK in Balus Box Office As an Ajith fan I need to review this film in a honest way. I should not cheat my followers who watches movies based on my review. So this will be a very honest review. Positives Ajith Kumar’s electrifying screen presence Trisha’s performance Making First Half love portions Chemistry between Ajith and Trisha Arjun’s fight sequences are very good and still he fights like hell. That’s why he is called Action King Regina Cassandra’s performance Stunt sequences are excellent Anirudh’s BGM and songs (I personally love Thaniye song and Pathikichu) Interval block Technical Aspects like Cinematography (especially Sawadeeka portion), editing etc. Negatives Second half is very much generic and predictable Ajith’s fights are bit mediocre and Ajith actually moves a bit slowly Regina’s flashback is unwanted and bad The first 30 minutes in the first half may not work for hardcore Ajith fans. It is more like Yennai Arinthaal love scenes. Very good scenes but not suitable for Ajith fans (not a negative but a negative for hardcore Ajith fans) Narration and screenplay in second half could have been better Some characters performance like Aarav is underwhelming. Even Ajith’s acting is not very good. It’s only decent. Emotions connects in parts Overall Vidaamuyarchi is an average thriller. Does the film satisfy all? If you keep your expectations low, it may satisfy you Is the film really horrible as some guys in X like Christopher Kanakaraj says? No, it is not horrible. It is an okayish watch Will the film become a hit? Possiblities are high. I don’t know what is the budget exactly. Some are saying 250 crores, some are saying 300 crores and some are saying 180 crores. If the budget is between 180–230 crores, there are higher chances of the film to become a success. If the budget is 250 crores, then it will become an AVERAGE-ABOVE AVERAGE grosser. If the budget is 300 crores, then it will be difficult to break even. Overall it is an one time watchable action thriller. Keep your expectations low and you will enjoy it. I am mildly satisfied. But don’t worry Good Bad Ugly will be a real celebration for us. Marks - 55–60/100

Parsakthi is Rajendran biopic / Ajith is King of Opening / C Sankaran Nair biopic renamed

Parasakthi film directed by Sudha Kongara is based on the Rajendran the student who lost his life during the anti- Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu during a police firing against the agitators. The DMK government installed a statue of Rajendran in the Annamalai University. Rajendran body was found with bullet in his forehead, He was laid to rest in his village near Coimbatire. Sivakarthikeyan plats Rajendran in the film and like Amaran, this too is a biopic and here too he is a martyr. Who plays Bhaktavasalam is not known. This is second biopic for Sudha after Irudhi Suttru based on Air Deccan founder Gopinath. There was criticism that Sudha had unnecessarily inserted Periyar photo and create a belief that Gopinath is not from Brahmin community, a distortion of fact. Similarly many incidents were added to give it a filmic touch. In Amarn there was a criticism that hero Mukund’s caste being a Brahmin was totally submerged in the narrative. Yet another aspect is that the then Madurai Collector was T N Seshan who took CM Bhaktavalsam orders seriously and gave police the free hand to resort to firing to put down the agitation. Yet another interesting part is that Congress workers surrounded actor S S Rajendran house as it had a black flag flying. To disperse the crowd, Rajendran fired a few shots from his gun. Many political leaders like Vaiko and other DMK leaders will have to feature in the film narration.

Within 24 hrs, more than 44.62 K tickets were booked. We are gonna see why Ajith is called the King Of Opening. Record opening on cards. If the film clicks, this film will become Ajith’s best grosser and would boost his market and Good Bad Ugly’s expectations by the exhibitors.

Biopic of lawyer C Sankaran Nair titled Shankara is now Kesari 2. Film has Akshay Kumar, Aanaya Pandey and R Madhavan and release on March 14th. The film is about a defamation case where Michael O’Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and architect of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, sued C Sankaran Nair. This trial was a pivotal moment in India’s fight for justice and serves as the core of the film’s plot. Like Kesari was an emotional action film, was about the sacrifice of Sikhs during the pre-Independence era , Kesaro 2 also deals with the brave Sikh community’s contribution and sacrifice against the British and stars Akshay Kumar, who acted in Kesari. Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi in his directorial debut, Kesari Chapter 2 aims to reveal pivotal moment in India’s fight for justice and serves as the core of the film’s plot.