VIJAY'S PULI VS THE OTHER SUPERSTAR BIGGIES - AN ANALYSIS

When we take the past two years into consideration, in our Chennai city box-office report, only 5 films have managed a Fri - Sun opening weekend Chennai city gross collection in excess of 2 crores. They are Lingaa, Anjaan, I, Yennai Arindhaal and most recently Puli.

 

1. Lingaa - 2.60 crores from 675 weekend shows

2. Anjaan - 2.36 crores from 573 weekend shows

3. Puli - 2.19 crores from 465 weekend shows

4. I - 2.19 crores from 531 weekend shows

5. Yennai Arindhaal - 2.18 crores from 486 weekend shows

 

Regarding films which released prior to Friday, the top Chennai city opening performers over the past 2 years are as follows, 

 

1. I - 3.84 crores from the first 5 days (Wednesday release)

2. Kaththi - 3.01 crores from the first 5 days (Wednesday release)

3. Yennai Arindhaal - 2.93 crores from the first 4 days (Thursday release)

4. Puli - 2.85 crores from the first 4 days (Thursday release)

 

All these figures are Behindwoods' in-house data and not the official ones.