Box Office: Ponniyin Selvan Touches 100 Crore, Vikram Vedha Has An Avg First Weekend

While the Mani Ratnam- directed pan-Indian film Ponniyin Selvan Part I almost touched ₹100 over the first weekend, the Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan starrer Vikram Vedha had a modest box office collection. Both films released in theatres on Friday, September 30, 2022.

Ponniyin Selvan Part I

Starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Chiyaan Vikram, Trisha, and Shobhita Dhulipala, among others, Ponniyin Selvan Part I collected ₹92.50 crore nett at the box office over the three-day weekend. As per the Box Office India, the film collected approximately ₹31.25 crore nett on its opening day followed by ₹29 crore nett on the second day and ₹32.25 crore nett on Sunday. The film did massive in Tamil Nadu with a collection of over ₹52 crore nett.

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Ponniyin Selvan: I is the first of the two cinematic parts based on Kalki Krishnamurthy’s 1955 novel Ponniyin Selvan. Considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in Tamil literature, Ponniyin Selvan came in five volumes with around 2,210 pages and tells the story of the early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I. The writer visited Sri Lanka three times to gather information about it.

The novel was first attempted to be adapted as a film in the late 1950s by actor and filmmaker MGR (M. G. Ramachandran), followed by another unsuccessful attempt in the mid-1990s and early 2010s. Finally in 2019, Ratnam took it up, calling it his ‘dream project’, and the film went on the floors in mid-December 2019. Shooting finally wrapped up in September 2021 after halting twice due to the coronavirus pandemic. The film has been shot in India and Thailand.

Vikram Vedha

Starring Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan, Vikram Vedha collected ₹37.50 crore nett at the box office. As per the Box Office India, the film collected around ₹10.35 crores on its opening day followed by ₹12.75 crore approx on Saturday and around ₹14.5 crore on Sunday.

While the Box Office India expected the film to do far better on Sunday, however, the film merely managed to go up by 20 %. However, considering the amount of boycott trend the film and its actors faced online ahead of the film’s release, the box office collection is a modest one for its first weekend.

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The film is a remake of the Vijay Sethupathy and R. Madhavan starrer Tamil film of the same name. Inspired by the Indian folktale Baital Pachisi, based on the famous Vikram Betaal, the Tamil version narrates the story of a cop (Vikram) who sets out to track down and kill gangster Vedha. The story unfolds after Vedha voluntarily surrenders himself and tells Vikram three stories that changes his perception of good and evil. In the Hindi remake, Khan will be playing the cop and Roshan will be portraying Sethupathi’s role of the gangster. The film also stars Radhika Apte, Rohit Saraf, Yogita Bihani, and Sharib Hashmi in pivotal roles.

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