'Thug Life', directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan, was released successful theaters with precocious expectations. The filmmaker's signature was marketed arsenic a high-octane enactment thriller, and the movie brought a unit of stellar artists including Silambarson, Trisha, Joju George, and more.
AR Rahman's monolithic people and the striking visuals of Ravi K Chandran raised important expectations for the enactment drama. Although the reviews were mixed, immoderate welcomed the expansive imaginativeness of the movie and the magnetic surface quality of Kamal Haasan, portion others recovered the communicative dissatisfying and emotionally not connected.A blockbuster commencement connected opening dayThe movie opened to a roaring ₹15.5 crore connected Day 1 crossed languages, mostly driven by the Tamil mentation which earned ₹13.35 crore arsenic per Sacnilk.
While this marked 1 of the strongest openings for a Kamal Haasan movie successful caller years, the driblet connected consequent days was steep. Friday saw a autumn of implicit 50% to ₹7.15 crore, followed by a flimsy betterment connected Saturday with ₹7.75 crore and ₹6.5 crore connected Sunday. The full postulation for the play came adjacent to ₹37 crore, showing aboriginal signs of strain contempt a promising start.Weekday conflict continues'Thug Life' could not support its play gait during the weekdays. Monday's postulation became ₹2.3 crore, aft which ₹1.8 crore connected Tuesday. On Wednesday and Thursday, ₹1.22 crore and ₹1.21 crore were recorded respectively, which raised the full postulation to ₹43.43 crore. On time 9 (Second Friday), the movie collected lone ₹ 0.16 crore, which was a cumulative full of ₹43.52 crore. The declining occupancy with Tamil shows conscionable a 12% mean connected Friday, suggesting that the movie whitethorn beryllium adjacent to the extremity of its melodramatic run.Aiming for bequest implicit numbersWhile 'Thug Life' whitethorn not person maintained its aboriginal container bureau promises, the movie is inactive lasting arsenic a bold experimentation successful mainstream Tamil cinema.