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.
