Jayamkondan
Cast: Vinay, Bhavana, Lekha Washington, Vivek, Santhanam, Nizhalgal Ravi, Cochin Haneefa Direction: R KannanMusic: VidyasagarProduction: T G Thyagarajan
The fact that Vinay's Jeyamkondaan is still on the list clearly states that the movie is faring decently at the BO. Moving away from the stereotypical love stories, the movie presents an honest account of perspectives of two different people.Trade Talk:Average collections have made the movie a safe bet.Public Talk:Finally Bhavana's career can hopefully look good after this.
No. Weeks Completed: 11
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 21
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 35 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 72,576
Total collections in Chennai by end of the twelfth weekend: Rs. 1.02 Crore
Verdict: Average
The fact that Vinay's Jeyamkondaan is still on the list clearly states that the movie is faring decently at the BO. Moving away from the stereotypical love stories, the movie presents an honest account of perspectives of two different people.Trade Talk:Average collections have made the movie a safe bet.Public Talk:Finally Bhavana's career can hopefully look good after this.
No. Weeks Completed: 11
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 21
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 35 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 72,576
Total collections in Chennai by end of the twelfth weekend: Rs. 1.02 Crore
Verdict: Average
Saroja
Cast: S.P.B. Charan, Siva, Premji Amaran, Kajal Agarwal, Nikitha, Prakash Raj, JayaramDirection: Venkat PrabhuMusic: Yuvan Shankar RajaProduction: Amma Creations
Saroja is nail biting, funny, and exhilarating. With not too many decent thriller movies around, Saroja is a refresher of sorts from the run-of-the-mill love-fare that we are used to at the box office.Trade Talk:Made in a minimum budget, the movie has already grossed gleeful returns making Venkat Prabhu the most sought after director in Tamil.Public Talk:Yuvan's music and the Australian born chick Vega Tamotia.
No. Weeks Completed: 10
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 27
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 45 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 1,50,175
Total collections in Chennai by end of the eleventh weekend: Rs. 3.77 Crore
Verdict: Above average
Saroja is nail biting, funny, and exhilarating. With not too many decent thriller movies around, Saroja is a refresher of sorts from the run-of-the-mill love-fare that we are used to at the box office.Trade Talk:Made in a minimum budget, the movie has already grossed gleeful returns making Venkat Prabhu the most sought after director in Tamil.Public Talk:Yuvan's music and the Australian born chick Vega Tamotia.
No. Weeks Completed: 10
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 27
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 45 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 1,50,175
Total collections in Chennai by end of the eleventh weekend: Rs. 3.77 Crore
Verdict: Above average
Seval
Cast: Bharath, Poonam Bajwa, Simran, Vadivelu Direction: Hari Music: G.V.PrakashProduction: Jinnah Creations
Hari couldn't strike jackpot this Diwali around – for it's not every year that people enjoy watching movies churned out of a same little plot. Trade Talk:No respite from the rural centers either. The collections seem to be slumping fast.
Public Talk:Moving on!
No. Weeks Completed: 3
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 66
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 50 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 4,24,410
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fourth weekend: Rs. 1.27 Crore
Verdict: Below average
Hari couldn't strike jackpot this Diwali around – for it's not every year that people enjoy watching movies churned out of a same little plot. Trade Talk:No respite from the rural centers either. The collections seem to be slumping fast.
Public Talk:Moving on!
No. Weeks Completed: 3
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 66
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 50 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 4,24,410
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fourth weekend: Rs. 1.27 Crore
Verdict: Below average
Aegan
Cast: Ajith, Nayantara, Navadeep, Suhasini Mani ratnam, Jayaram, Suman, Nasser, M.S.BhaskarDirection: Raju Sundaram Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Production: Ayngaran International
Ajith – Raju Sundaram team's Aegan is a goofy attempt at making a comedy movie. A saggy plot peppered with stale jokes, women clad in minimal clothes and confused script make the movie tiresome to watch.
Trade Talk:Fast losing steam at the BO with only a very few cinema halls playing the movie.
Public Talk:We shudder to think what Nayan's next role would be.
No. Weeks Completed: 3
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 90
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 75 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 9,63,822
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fourth weekend: Rs. 2.83 CroreVerdict: Average
Ajith – Raju Sundaram team's Aegan is a goofy attempt at making a comedy movie. A saggy plot peppered with stale jokes, women clad in minimal clothes and confused script make the movie tiresome to watch.
Trade Talk:Fast losing steam at the BO with only a very few cinema halls playing the movie.
Public Talk:We shudder to think what Nayan's next role would be.
No. Weeks Completed: 3
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 90
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 75 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 9,63,822
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fourth weekend: Rs. 2.83 CroreVerdict: Average
Vaaranam Aayiram
The long-pending Gautham Menon dosage is back for Tamil cinema. Gautham Menon's Vaaranam Aayiram tells the struggle of an ordinary man and his efforts to raise his family and kids through the eyes of his son. It also portrays Surya in two different roles with myriad shades of emotions. Simran, Sameera, and Divya are the other lead ladies.
Trade Talk:The initial booking has been phenomenal. This week is expected to be crucial for the movie's stand at the BO.
Public Talk:Harris Jayaraj's music serves as a definite push for the movie's flow. The songs are brilliant and absolutely infectious and it is sad to note that Harris has severed ties with Gautham.
No. Days Completed: 3
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 261
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 95 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs. 73,70,433
Verdict: Good opening
About Tamil Cinema
The Tamil film industry is the filmmaking industry of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, India where several Tamil language feature films are largely produced. It is also colloquially known as Kollywood.
Distribution and popularity
Tamil films are known to be the most popular Indian films, along with Bollywood films, due to their large distribution internationally to the numerous Tamil diasporal regions. They have one of the widest overseas distribution along with Telugu and Hindi films. They have enjoyed consistent popularity among Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Tamil films have recently become popular in Japan (Rajinikanth's Muthu, for example, screened for a record period), South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Sivaji: The Boss had been touted as a record-breaking film for its high-budget, large opening, and reception worldwide. It also cracked into the United Kingdom's top-ten high-grossing films during the week of its release. Ayngaran International distributes a majority of Tamil films overseas while domestic distributors such as Aascar Films, Pyramid Saimira, and Madras Talkies handle distribution within India. The Kamal Haasan starrer Dasavathaaram was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures in Canada.
Many Tamil-language films have premiered or have been selected as special presentations at various prestigious film festivals across the world, such as Kannathil Muthamittal, Veyyil and Paruthiveeran. More recently, Kanchivaram, directed by Priyadarshan, has been selected to be premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Films like Thevar Magan, Indian and Jeans had been selected by India for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards.
Tamil films enjoy significant patronage in neighbouring Indian states like Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In Kerala and Karnataka the films are directly released in Tamil but in Andhra Pradesh they are generally dubbed into Telugu. There is a fair amount of dispersion amongst the Indian film industries. Many successful Tamil films have been remade by the Hindi and Telugu film industries. Kollywood has also remade a fair number of Hindi-, Telugu-, Malayalam-, and other-language films. It is estimated by the Manorama Yearbook 2000 (a popular almanac) that over 5,000 Tamil films were produced in the 20th century. Tamil films have also been dubbed into other languages, thus reaching a much wider audience. Examples of those dubbed into Hindi include such hits as Minsaara Kanavu, Roja and Bombay. Anniyan, directed by S. Shankar, became the second Indian film to be dubbed into French.
Superstars
Initially, Kollywood was dominated by M. K. Thyagaraja Bagavadhar and P. U. Chinnappa during the 1930s and 1940's. Later, in the 1950s till late 1970s, the two highly anticipated Tamil film stars were M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan, and from the 1980s till now are Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan. By the 1990s there were many stars in the industry. However, Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan still dominated the decade and brought Kollywood to a new level. The former starred quality films under his production while the latter raised the bar in commercial and family entertainers and became the highest paid actor in the India.
During the 90s, the present generation of young superstars, Joseph Vijay and Ajith Kumar, had debuted. Today along with veterans Kamal Hassan and Rajnikanth, actors Joseph Vijay, Surya Sivakumar, Vikram and Ajith Kumar are prominent leading stars who guarantee a good box office opening and appear in most high-budget feature films. These stars have exclusive fanclubs that often resort to passionate display of support. Distributors of films of the stars are able to arrange financing of film-in-progress from banks and exhibitors without much difficulty.
Domestic exhibitors
Show rentals range from Rs.700 in C-centres to as much as Rs.7,000 in A-centres for an average 700-seat screen. Unlike Hollywood, superstardom is deeply ingrained into Kollywood economics, so distributors are prepared to not only finance the films of super stars with proven track records but are also, in turn, able to secure minimum guarantees for those films from exhibitors. Rise of multiplexes in the late 1990s has stunted the growth of large screens.
Theatre Seats Location
Sathyamcomplex total of 2,380 Chennai
ARRS multiplex 2200 Salem
Reliance adlabs 2000 Salem
KG complex 2000 Coimbatore
Albert 1,225 Chennai
Devi 1,212 Chennai
Melody 998 Chennai
Abirami 927 Chennai
Kasi 917 Chennai
Central 900 Coimbatore
Maruti 900 Coimbatore
Sangam 877 Chennai
Maharani 733 Chennai
Udhayam 700 Chennai
Royal 650 Coimbatore
Santham 567 Chennai
Padmam 540 Chennai
Suriyan 480 Chennai
Devi Bala 369 Chennai
Subham 306 Chennai
Mayajaal 3000+ Chennai
Inox 909 Chennai
Abirami 1500 Erode
Sonamena 1200 Trichy
Kalaiarangam 1500 Trichy
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