Mahaavatar boost to Indian Animation / Rajini KING OF KARNATAKA / VIJAY Reel Breaks Insta record

 Chaluve Gowda Co-Founder: @hombalegroup Partner: @hombalefilms

Board of Governors: @rv.university
Board Member: Mandya University took a risk with Indian Animation and Indian VFX by making substantial investments and employing 200 VFX Software and Visual personnel and spending 1 1/2 years to create Indigenous extrusion of characters in MAHAVATAR NARASIMHA t is a great thing for India

Sure the Software is still Western owned (American and British) but the Studio is Indian, On day 30, within just 24 hours, ticket sales spiked dramatically.  

Rather than entrust animation to a Japanese or Korean company, Hombale has decided to do their own VFX work using Indian talent

That is definitely a step in the right direction

More Indian VFX and who knows maybe we can finally start making world class Software

There are 140 Crore Indians and only a combined 5.35 Crore tickets were sold in 2024

By comparison there are 140 Crore Chinese and 12.85 Crore tickets were sold in the first 6 months of 2025

So if India can manage to push another 5 Crore tickets, we could be seeing Budgets of 1000 Crore becoming easier to gross locally and more work for Indian Animation

Especially with all our Puranas, Panchatantra, Mahabharat and Mythologies

More than 130.3K tickets were booked on BookMyShow, a number usually associated with an opening weekend rather than the film’s fifth week.

The sudden spike in bookings shows that audiences are choosing films with substance, animated or otherwise. At this rate, the film could well cross new milestones at the box office.

With the Rs. 300 crore gross mark now within reach, Ashwin Kumar’s epic is in no hurry to arrive on OTT. Produced by Kleem Productions and presented by Hombale Films, the movie is further lifted by Sam CS’s soulful soundtrack, which continues to strike a chord with viewers.

Continuing his record-breaking spree, Rajinikanth now has three all-time highest-grossing Tamil movies in Karnataka. Thalaivar’s Jailer and 2 Point 0 occupy the first and third places, respectively, in the list of top three Tamil movies in Karnataka, while Coolie stands in the second spot. However, given the considerable drops in the daywise collection, Coolie may not surpass Jailer’s lifetime gross in the Kannada land.

A reel shared by Vijay on his Instagram yesterday is now breaking the internet and has clocked the highest number of likes (10.3 million) for an Instagram post by any South Indian actor. The video features Vijay taking a selfie with a sea of fans during Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s (TVK) second state-level conference in Madurai on August 21. The fact that Vijay’s post amassed over 10 million likes within a day, and that too with just 14 million Insta followers, speaks volumes of Vijay’s craze. Vijay is currently working on his highly anticipated last film, Jana Nayagan. The actor will bid adieu to acting and enter Tamil Nadu politics by contesting the state assembly elections in summer 2026.