Ponniyin Selvan 1 recorded a huge opening day at the Indian box office, grossing maseive numbers yesterday. The opening day collections are the highest of ahead of Beast, Valimai and Vikram.
Filmmaker Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan 1 has smashed all records and grossed a whopping Rs 80 crore worldwide gross. This makes it the biggest ever opening day for any Tamil film. Ponniyin Selvan 1 – the Tamil period drama is a two-part magnum opus which is written, directed and co-produced by Mani Ratnam and Allirajah Subaskaran under Lyca Productions.
PS-I collected Rs. 24.25 crores approx in Tamil Nadu on its first day, making it the highest opener ever for a film not featuring the big three of Kollywood; Vijay, Ajith and Rajini, beating Vikram (Rs. 21.70 crores) which took the record earlier this year. The numbers could have gone further higher, likely over Rs. 40 crores, if not for the competition from Dhanush starrer Naane Varuvean which took away some showcasing from the film. The film has huge advance sales for today and tomorrow in the state and can see collections staying above Rs. 30 crores on all three days of the weekend.
There is talk of the film beating all time record of Vikram, which though a bit early at this stage, but is certainly a possibility.
Outside Tamil Nadu, the film collected Rs. 9.75 crores in Telugu states, with bigger centres like Hyderabad performing best. Kerala and Karnataka also did well with Rs. 3.75 crores and Rs. 5.50 crores respectively. The Hindi dubbed version of the film also opened to fair numbers, the highest for Kollywood in recent years.
The regional breakdown for two-day box office collections of Ponniyin Selvan I is as follows:
Tamil Nadu – Rs. 44 crores
AP/TS – Rs. 10 crores
Karnataka – Rs. 8.25 crores
Kerala – Rs. 6.25 crores
North India – Rs. 6.50 crores
Total – Rs. 75 crores
Overseas day 1
USA : 5 million $
Worldwide Gross – 80 cr
Film again jumped in Hindi today and should collect close to 2.50 cr nett/3.25 cr gross in north. Worldwide gross of minimum 50 cr on the cards. Film collected 36 cr gross all India on day two after 39 cr on day 1.
The film apart from India has also performed well in the USA, Malaysia, and Canada. The rest of the cast includes Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Prabhu, Parthiban, Nasser, Prakash Raj, Kishore, Vikram Prabhu, and Rahman. The music for the movie is composed by AR Rahman.
