Maharaja box office collection day 1: Vijay Sethupathi and Anurag Kashyap-starrer takes a solid start of Rs 4.50 crore
Maharaja box office collection day 1: Vijay Sethupathi and Anurag Kashyap-starrer takes a solid start of Rs 4.50 crore
The day one box office collection of Maharaja was surprisingly solid. The action-thriller, headlined by Vijay Sethupathi, has taken the third-biggest opening of the year in the Tamil film market, as it clocked in a solid Rs 4.5o cr nett, as reported by industry tracker Sacnlik. Maharaja, which is the 50th film of Sethupathi's career, also stars Anurag Kashyap.
The film opened to largely positive reviews, which seems to have helped boost the numbers. Directed by Nithilan Saminathan, Maharaja wasn't given a pan-India release, and has had a limited showcasing in the North, with no Hindi dubbed version. Maharaja had a release in Tamil and Telugu languages.
On Friday, the film recorded 43 percent occupancy in the night shows, signaling acceptance in the audience as the word of mouth spread. Even in Telugu markets, Maharaja was strong in night shows as it recorded nearly 40 percent occupancy. The start of Rs 4.50 cr has set the film up to make the most of the long weekend.
Maharaja would hope to record stronger totals on Saturday and Sunday, and then enjoy the Monday holiday on account of Bakri Eid. The film would hope to cross the Rs 20 cr mark in the first three days. As of now, the second day of the film is projected to be nearly Rs 8 cr.
According to Koi Moi, Maharaja is the third-biggest Tamil opener of the year right behind Tamannaah Bhatia and Raashii Khanna’s Aranmanai 4 (Rs 4.65 crores) and Dhanush’s Captain Miller, which made Rs 8.80 crore on day one.
In Maharaja, Vijay Sethupathi plays the role of a single father who is desperate to get back a stolen dustbin, but there is a lot more to his complaint than what meets the eye. In his review for the Indian Express, Kirubhakar Purushothaman had praised Nithilan Swaminathan for having an "interesting core idea." A part of the review read, "The purpose of this deliberate and convoluted writing is to surprise the audience and make them go, ‘I didn’t see that coming’. That makes Maharaja more of a visual puzzle than an engaging film."
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