Kuselan - Judas Rajinikanth Spits on Tamil Movie Fans
Sitting in the U.S. it’s hard to definitively say how Kamal Haasan’s crappy freakshow Dasavatharam is faring at the box office.
But news reports trickling in from India suggest that Dasavatharam is not doing well at the box office. If that is indeed the case, we would not be surprised because the movie is a pathetic fiasco from the so-called Ulaganayagan (Universal Hero).
Ha ha, if Kamal Haasan is Ulaganayagan, then we are Alexander the Great.
A report from Indiatimes (part of the Times of India group) says that the movie has not done well at the box office.
Here’s an excerpt from the IndiaTimes Report:
Yes, the hype, hoopla and the billions spent on it have not been able to save Kamal Haasan’s magnum opus Dasavatharam from sinking at the box office …. Dasavatharam has not been able to hold up interest levels over the weekend.
Times of India’s Indiatimes is not the only one Indian media outlet to comment on Dasavatharam’s poor performance at the box office.
Other credible Indian reports like DNA (Friday, June 20, 2008 23:59 IST) also make a similar point:
Kamal Haasan’s Dasavatharam may not have done too well as far as box-office collections are concerned.





Some numbers from mojo.. don’t know how reliable these numbers are.
http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=24&p=.htm.
Dasa had a spectacular opening because of the unprecendented number of prints released by the smart dasa guys who correctly predicted the collections to plummet in the second week.
It vanished off the mojo charts next week.
http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm
It is not sinking.. it has completely sunk.
I’ll use Sivaji for comparison because it set some standards for a “blockbuster” (and also because I am an unabashed Rajini fan)
Sivaji stayed on the mojo charts for 5 weeks.. collected 323,754 on the 5th week.. http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2007&wk=27&p=.htm
On the UK charts, Sivaji has beaten Dasa both week #1 and #2.
http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm
The staying power is what determines the success of a movie.. not the opening weekend collections.
thats really interesting.. Dasa had only one success
creating a hype even bigger than sivaji…
as per those stats … the opening week collection is
far too high than that of sivaji..
but ultimately.. both sivaji and dasa had a great fear factor of loss / flop… thats the reason why they made huge no of prints to gain as much as possible before
reviews / feedback of audieance spread across…
thats surely lack of confidence and sometimes path to failure too…
hi gandhiji you have injected a big comedy from two week ends dasa had collected 11mn$ were as sivaji collected only 3mn$
dasa opening weekend collection $ 4,632,719
sivaji openong weekend collection $1,324,861
dasa collection after two week ends: $11,653,212
sivaji collection after two week ends $3,705,252
The difference between Dasavatharam and Shivaji during its first weekend is $ 3,307,858 The difference between Dasavatharam and Shivaji gross collection at the end of the second weekend is $ 7,947,960 so Dasa is far better than sivaji in all aspects .so difference between dasa and sivaji collection is nearly 8mn$ nearly 32cr rs.it is really amazing.
kamal has not only shown he is great actor he has also shown he is a very big star too.this site has made lot of baloneys about rajnikanth saying he is star ,sun he is 100times multiplied by shahrukhkhan which has came to end.sivaji was only a moderate sucess it only grossed 100cr worldwide when it is expected to gross 300cr.that too it became moderate hit only because of huge hype created by national english news channels like cnnibn ,timesnow ,ndtv,headlinestoday.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=24&p=.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2007&wk=24&p=.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2007&wk=25&p=.htm
dasa is definitely not sinking it may be sinking in your bathroom tub.malaysian box office reported that dasavatharam has debuted at no2 behind hulk and at secondweekend it became no1 beating incredible hulk.
in uk boxoffice it debuted at no11 bcz it was relesed in very less theatres.
in us it was released in 50screens with 42 prints collecting 5mn$(5lakh us$) making it at no8 in us boxoffice at opening weekend.
overall taking worldwide boxoffice it debuted at no7 pushing back some hollywood movies great isnit.
rajni needs remakes,shriyas glamour,avm banner. rehman, punch dialogues, huge hype creation from media to give hit but genius kaml haasan does not need anything to deliver a blockbuster.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: genius kaml haasan does not need anything to deliver a blockbuster
Truly, a gem of a sentence!
fool itmeans that kamal donot need remakes or heroine glamour or any external factors like hype creation by media to deliver a blockbuster.y said some said das is sinking in inoudia which fool said may be your friends who are like you may say that movie is not doing weel as far as india is concerned dasa is givin 90% collections in weekdays and in weekends the collections are 100%.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Have you heard of the following - logic, spelling, punctuation & grammar?
well, as I suspected, it looks like boxofficemojo (BOM) is very unreliable for tamil movies. it had no record for dasa when I checked.. suddenly it appeared with ridiculously inflated numbers.. It made 1.7 mil. in UK and Malaysia for the first 2 weeks (both less than Sivaji).. so there is no way in hell it could have made 10 mil. from the rest of the countries in 2 weeks.
There are no record for either Dasa or Sivaji for the Indian Box Office on BMO.. So BMO is clearly not a good source for tamil movies.
Behindwoods.com states that Dasa is wobbling in the international market.. so do Indiatimes and DNA. Sify reports that collection is down to 80% in single screen theaters in Chennai.. in just the second week.. AssCar will get his money back, but Kamal’s reputation is damaged more.
Gandhiji
You are a Sic man. Even Rajini is exicted about kamal and Dasa and how does it matter when the producer is laughing away to his bank??
check this authentic write up in economic times
may be then you will feel the need of a Psycatric sitting to get back to reality.
One thing is true you wrote about sitting in the US and trying to read Indian collections of DASA. Poor you, I pray you become well soon!
Check this link
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3173741.cms
ramesh, yeah, i guess i am biased against kamal (I am an unabashed rajini fan, remember? Well, I would want to say that Rajini is a great man and wishes the best for his main rival.. but i find it hard to believe that he would really want it to be a bigger success than sivaji. To be fair to men, that article doesn’t really give actual numbers or tell us if it is doing well after a spectacular opening.
I am a fan of Kamal’s acting too (just not a fan of Kamal, the arrogant [trash talk]).. i think he has given some oscar-worthy performances. if he were in hollywood, he would have got some nominations at least.
But when you claim to be India’s most ambitious film, I expect some quality.. it is embarrassing (I am sincere, when I say this.. not just as a Rajini fan) to showcase this as India’s most ambitious film. We are fed to really high quality television on a daily basis.. Dasa falls way short of that in many departments. Very disappointing.
I certainly hope that Kamal is only boasting to market the film.. and not deluded enough to think that this movie is world-class. He has wasted a lot of effort, producer’s money and public’s money in this awful ambition..
Ya gandhiji is a sick like reviewer. dasavtaharam is ruling the boxoffice in india. reports say that in india it has been relesed around 600 screens in four states of south india tn,ap,ka,kl in two languages tamil and telegu. the collections are around 80to90% in weekdays and 100% in weekends.
Leaving apart india it is expected to groos $15mn from global markets like uk usa amd malaysia.on the frist week end it grossed $4.6mn and after two weekends gross todate is $11mn.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=24&p=.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm
At first gandhiji quoted this as reliable source but suddenly now saying it is not reliable.
gandhiji you wrote”i think he has given some oscar-worthy performances. if he were in hollywood, he would have got some nominations at least”.it is a gem of a sentence.thats why i say him the best in business of acting in the world.
hi gandhiji and reviewer this is a proper third party source learly saying dasaavatharam has grossed whooping 11.19 mn $ from the international market excluding usa.so ewho the hell said dasaavtharam was sinking was just a crap like the reviewer.atleast $8mn more than sivaji.so no way dasavatharam is not sinking. the ship had already reachhe dthe destination called sucess.
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/jun-08-04/dasavatharam-sivaji-30-06-08.html
you wrote”Sitting in the U.S. it’s hard to definitively say how Kamal Haasan’s crappy freakshow Dasavatharam is faring at the box office”it is very easy for you to say about the boxoffice results for movie relesing in india. the movie you like you will write review as your wish and say that movie is a blockbuster.
movie you dont like you like review for that movie like a crap and say that movie is a flop as you said for billa and now for dasavtharam.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write above: the movie you like you will write review as your wish and say that movie is a blockbuster.
You dodo, give us one example of where we’ve done that.
2. You write: movie you dont like you like review for that movie like a crap and say that movie is a flop as you said for billa
Is there not one thinking cell in that hard lump you call your head.
Maybe, you ought to read our post Ajith’s Billa - Flop, Ultimate Flop or Super Hit? one more time. Here’s an excerpt from that post:
Besides Ajith’s ham-handed attempts at acting, the new Billa also suffers from a poor screenplay and has the ugly feel of a rush job not a slick job.
Hey, notwithstanding all its weaknesses Ajith’s Billa may even turn out to be a super hit. Who knows.
yo Dilip, “don’t know how reliable these numbers are.” doesn’t mean “reliable”.
BOM INTL numbers don’t seem to be accurate.
Sivaji got 2 mil. from UK & Malaysia alone.. Dasa got 1.7 from those 2 countries which seem to have reliable box office numbers for tamil movies. If we extrapolate, the rest of the world numbers should be almost equal.. because we know how big a success Sivaji was. So I think either Dasa’s numbers are inflated (foul play by AssCar team?) or Sivaji’s numbers were drawn from insufficient sources. The disparity cannot be nearly 8 million.. that’s ridiculous.
Regarding Chennai box office: Both Sify and behindwoods have downgraded it to a hit from superhit.. It couldn’t even withstand a SundarC movie.. Imagine what will happen when Kuselan arrives.
There won’t be as many repeat viewers as there were for Sivaji.. on top of pissing off sane movie-goers, he has pissed off some hindu fanatics too.. too bad. So it won’t be a blockbuster, buster.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We remain skeptical of the $8 million difference.
Gandhiji it clearly shows you are hardcore rajni fan. Dasa was a huge hit compared to Sivaji. The movie released in more theatres in Tamil Nadu than Sivaji.
go and see chennai boxoffice in sify it is at no1. In behindwood it is no1. just two weeks it garnered around 5cr in chennai alone. In world boxoffice excluding usa it made 11.9mn$.
Reviewer will remain always skeptical even if thousands of proper sources are given.
Moreover sivaji was a loss fro distributors. In Madurai dasavatharam released in 12 screens compared to sivaji
released in 10 screens.repeat audience for dasa is also amazing. see this link
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/jun-08-04/dasavatharam-sivaji-30-06-08.html
it clearly says about the repeat audience.
this link clearly shows that how big blockbuster vetaiyaadu vilaiyadu is.it made distribuotr share of 30cr .it grossed 45cr.u accept now.
what do you mean by saying vv a dud.so it shows oyu are acrpa and if you dont like a movie youwrite review as you wish and say that movie a total dud at the boxoffice.hence the proof.
http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14359602&cid=2363
SearchIndia.com Responds:
One of the links provided by you - Moviebuzz - claims that At the box-office it was Vetayadu Vilayadu which was the biggest grosser as it made Rs 30 Crore worldwide for its distributors.
Where do they get their stats from…not clear.
so vv is not a dud it was a boxoffice blockbuster and dasavatharam was even a bigger blockbuster .In india it is running in all the 600 odd screens it released with 80 to 90%collections in weekdays and 100% collections in weekends.
Gandhi
First of all, I am a great fan of filims and equally love Rajni and Kamal flicks. I did not write to take sides and I am not sick. The point I was trying to make you see reason was that both Rajni and kamal have been able to make a mark over the biased Bollywood stars! It is a moment of pride for Tamil cinema. Don’t be a cribber and learn to appreciate things! Let’s be clear any body other than Rajni in shivaji will be crap and so is Dasa without kamal! It is effort and entertainment that matters so don’t be a moron and be realistic friend. Tamil cinema needs both Rajani and Kamal and that is the point. Please clean your mind-set and don’t be childish.
ramesu, what pisses me off is when kamal claims that dasa is world-class.. it is embarrassing. I bet that it wouldn’t sustain the interest level once Kuselan hits town.. In addition to Rajini, it has black kamal in it.. and has a meaty story-line.. hope Pee Vasu hasn’t screwed it up.
you ought to wash your mind-set too.. playing petty bollywood-kollywood politics. they are all indian movies, you know!
Dilip, you claim “sivaji was a loss for distributors”.. do you have any news item which says that.. I do agree that VV was a hit.. But I wasn’t much impressed by it.. it was like an unduly stretched average Law & Order episode. I have seen some episodes which were better made than this movie.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Yes, Dilip… Please provide us a legitimate source for your claim that “sivaji was a loss for distributors”.
ha searchindia, i did a search on VV and law and order to see who all felt that way.. i was surprised that i landed on your dasa review page. I realized that after all, i haven’t read all the posts on that page.. Another fella also has felt the same way.. it was my immediate reaction after watching the movie.. Atleast Gautam is trying something new.. hopefully people will start
“Akku” is supposed to be a taut thriller as per Sify.. did you get a chance to watch it?
I have sunTV at home.. The serials are beyond appalling.. no wonder some people are so impressed by VV and Dasa.. Dilip&Ramesu, in the US, the situation is almost reverse .. many serials are better than most movies.
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/06/stories/2008010655971100.htm provides lots of hope for future technical brilliance in Indian movies.. Kamal could have used animation to take away the fakeness in his masks.. but I guess his ego stopped him from doing that.. or he is just plain ignorant.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. We had Sun TV for a few months but in the interest of retaining what little is left of our sanity (after watching all those Kollywood & Bollywood films), we cancelled Sun and added the HBO/Starz/Showtime/DVR package.
2. No, we haven’t watched Akku…we’ll see if we can get it.
3. We looked at the Hindu link provide above on special effects. Our thinking is that the special effects capabilities of Indian firms are way, way behind the U.S.
Check this link: http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/box-office/2008/de-taali-dull-start-250608.html
Check this out…: http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1530171
Sify had now announced Dasavatharam as Super Hit
http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14706598&cid=13525926
Msn has also announced Dasavatharam as Super Hit
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1530171
BehindWoods has announced that Dasavatharam BEATS Sivaji in terms of Box Office Collection
:) 
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/jun-08-04/dasavatharam-sivaji-30-06-08.html
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Sorry for the late-processing of your comment. For some reason it went into the spam folder.
Dear Gandhi,
God save your degenerated thought process. My assesment that you are sic is justified and and the added fact is you have “selective amineshia(Hope i have spelt it right) besides signs of dementia or forgetfulness!
I have decided no to put any more sense into your scrap mind!. By the way, I was previliged to See a special screening of “Kuselan” as I am close to the production house! it is a nice story and taken well and it is no shivaji in termse of size. Raji acts and looks very young.The songs are crapy and average. You dont have to gaurantee its success to me! I liked it and am sure it will hit Bulls eye. Last but not the least, please you need medical help and take it
oh come on, ramesh.. if i need medical help, dilip needs it too.. he claims sivaji was a loss. we are just polarized fans.(not polar fans). I would anyday watch Sivaji over Dasa — Sivaji had so many sizzling movies for a Rajini fan (motta boss, his impressions of mgr, sivaji and kamal, all the style.. wow!).. but I would watch Thevar Magan over Annamalai.. so I am saner than he is.
yeah, listened to the kuselan songs.. below average.. looks like gv prakash has exhausted all his good tunes already. maybe he needs medical help too.
Hello,
I just saw somebody mentioning about “Kuselan”. I am not a Kamal fan, still like him. But Rajni is known for is overacting, and did he ever do roles like Kamal did in “Anbe Sivam”? Isn’t he overacting - to be sincere? Dasa’s story was not good, but Kamal was good, i thought!
Now when I saw Chandramukhi, it was, the worst moment in my life! Manichitrathazhu was a critically acclaimed and realistic potrayal, while Chandramukhi had a lot of Rajni Craps. For eg: In Manichitrathazhu, Mohanlal was really tensed about curing his friends wife, and Bullshit, in chandramukhi, Rajni did it eaaaaaaaasily, and not only that, the head chopping scene was shocker to me. Also Rajni enters with his ‘typical’ style, and he walked with a smile while the Rowdys where floating, why you are making masterpiece into a disaster - please tell sir!
Now Kuselan - It’s a remake of Kathaparayumbol, in which Sreenivasan was a simple barber, and there is only one song in the movie, and that too matching to a situation - Sung by the inmates of that Village praising the “Barber” for flattering him and get a golden moment with his old friend who’s now Superstar. A very nice movie. Now SUPER STAR RK is doing the role of this Barber, and the stills show me R.K. in full swing with Nayanthara - With shining robes and makeup - what the hell? And after he knew about DASA, he decided to double the roles, and now 20 roles? Oh my god, why are you spoiling GOOD FILMS? Can’t you make your own CRAP Story like Kamal made for Dasa? I like Kamal just because he doesn’t mercilessly turn a Good movie into a disaster - He had his own story, though. Look at Amitabh bachcan. He does the roles that fits to his age, now still R.K. flirting with Grand daughters? I think his next movie will be Harry Potter in which he will be doing HArry potter’s role, and i expect him to act in some good hollywood movie’s remake, and I am sure, the next day American’s will Bomb out Tamilnadu.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Let’s see how Kuselan turns out. The wait shouldn’t be long.
only rajni fans who are mentals need a medical attention ramesh. sivaji was a definite loss for distributors but not for producers. this site is definitley not neutral they are indeed hardcore fans of rajnikanth who made lot of baloneys about rajnikath saying he is 100 times to shahrukh his charisam is like sunrays he is a star etc etc like that. for sivaji there was a huge hype creation by media and after all it grossed only 100cr. das already crossed 100cr mark. boxoffice reports show that das has grossed 15mn$ excluding usa from world wide box office.
this will be the review for the kuselan. they will abuse ntara with all the bullshit words in the dictionary.i f movie is as they expected they will say pasupathy has done a great job which lot of heroes in kollywood are not able to do. if movie is not as they expected they say
one of the few saving graces to the movie is fine performance by pasupathy.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Cut the baloney and answer the question posed to you by us and others - Give us a credible source for your repeated claim that Sivaji caused a loss to distributors.
Who is the bloody idiot said that Dasa is sinking? He/she would have deffinitely escaped from a mental hospital i believe… Because even a blind could hear the feed back from the huge crowd.. or even a deaf and dum could readout from boxoffice records..
Dasavathaaram facts- Outplayed chandramuki and sivaji @ box office in the opening week itself. COllected Rs.100 Crores in 10 days and now crossed Rs.160 crores with increasing demand and great response… people at chennai are standing in ques in front of theates from morning 7 am in sat/sundays for special shows eEVEN IN 4TH WEEK…
HEY MAN, ARE U SICK? BETTER DONT SLEEP… JUST WAKE UP & SEE WHATS HAPPENING..
U KNOW ONETHING? U LIKE IT OR NOT..
DASAVATHAARAM IS NOW THE HIGHEST GROSSED INDIAN MOVIE SURPASSING OSO AND SHOLAY-(AS PER CURRENT INFLATION) HAVING COLLECTED MORETHAN 160 CRORES IN 3 WEEKS…
PLS CHECK OUT AND REPLY
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You blithering idiot, use lower case in your comment. Makes it easy for others to read your crap.
2. Provide credible sources with links for your tall claims about Dasavatharam being a mega-hit. Otherwise, you won’t be taken seriously.
Until we see credible evidence, we’ll reserve judgment on Dasavatharam’s box office status.
3. When we wrote the above post Is Dasavatharam Sinking?, we cited a report from Indiatimes (part of the Times of India group).
you wrote”Give us a credible source “what a comedy is there anyhing called credible source in the world for you.you said vv is a dud i have given a credible third party source to prove you are wrong.yo said dasavathram is sinking what a comedy.all of them in this blog has given credible sources to show that it is not sinking.are you ready to beleive those credible sources.
you said billa is flop i have given many third party reliable sources to prove you are wrong.you said vv is a dud i have proved that it has got a distributor share of 30 cr worldwide.but you are not ready to beleive those.you like a fool questioned how they got that staistics.then what more you need do you need distributors and producers to come and sit near you and give the collection statistics of a movie.now see das has grossed 6.35 cr from cnai alone.
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-2/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-dasavatharam.html
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1530171
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Do NOT try to evade the issue. Several readers (including yours truly) have asked you to provide a credible source for your repeated claims that Sivaji caused a loss to distributors.
Yet you have failed to do so.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=26&p=.htm
this clearly shows that dasa is not sinking.and the difference between sivaji and dasa is not 8mn$ now it has shot up to 11mn$ now.so some craps like reviewer and gandhiji who said movie is sinking definitely needs some medical attention.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We posed a question - Is Dasavatharam Sinking?…that’s not the same as a declarative sentence.
Several readers (including yours truly) have asked you to provide a credible source for your repeated claims that Sivaji caused a loss to distributors. You have not responded….were you talking through your hat?
ok i will give details about sivaji is a loss to distributors.tamildaily dinakaran,tamilmurasu have given news about that. but you said vv is a dud.after all the credible sources do you accept that movies like billa, dasavathram, vettaiyyadu vilaiyaadu are blockbusters.
dasavathram collections have crossed 150cr (14mn$( about 60cr rs) from worldwide collection). sivaji collected only 100cr.definitely das collection is much more than sivaji.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: i will give details about sivaji is a loss to distributors. tamil daily dinakaran, tamilmurasu have given news about that
We are waiting for the specifics.
dull-ip, i admit that dasa is a blockbuster - collection-wise.. many gullible people are getting swindled.
but kamal admitted that dasa is crap.
so both you and me can be happy.
http://www.maalaimalar.com/asp/news/dis_news_article.asp?artid=211020 says Sivaji collected 95 crores in 3 weeks.. so broke even in 3 weeks for distributors. Not that I trust maalaimalar.. I don’t trust dinakaran either.. we need to go with how long the movie ran.. Sivaji’s record - 100 days in 105 theaters. Dasa won’t match it. Kuselan might.
இந்தியாவில் மட்டும் 650 தியேட்டர்களில் திரையிடப்பட்ட ‘சிவாஜி’ அனைத்து தியேட்டர்களிலும் ஹவுஸ்புல் காட்சிகளாக ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறது.
தமிழ்நாடு மட்டுமில்லாது ஆந்திரா, கேரளா, கர்நாடகா, மகாராஷ்டிரா ஆகிய மாநிலங்களிலும் இப்படம் வசூல் சாதனை செய்துள்ளது. ‘சிவாஜி’ படம் மகராஷ்டிராவில் 18 தியேட்டர்களில் நேரடி தமிழ்ப்படமாகவே திரையிடப்பட்டது.
தற்போது இந்தியில் ‘ஜூம் பராபர் ஜூம்’ என்ற படம் வெற்றிகரமாக ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கும் நிலையிலும் நேரடி தமிழ்ப்படமாக திரையிடப்பட்ட சிவாஜிக்கு இப்போதும் இருக்கும் வரவேற்பை பார்த்து வினியோகஸ்தர்களே வியப்படைந்துள்ளனர்.
மேலும் பல மாநிலங்களில் சிவாஜியின் வசூல் வேட்டை தொடர்வதால் புதிய படங்களை திரையிட வினியோகஸ்தர்கள் தயக்கம் காட்டி வருகின்றனர். இப்படம் ஆந்திராவில் மட்டும் ரூ.18 கோடி வசூல் செய்துள்ளது.
இந்தியாவில் மட்டுல்லாது வெளிநாடுகளிலும் ‘சிவாஜி’ படம் வசூலை குவித்துள்ளது. அமெரிக்காவில் ரூ.4.5 கோடி, இங்கிலாந்தில் ரூ.2.75 கோடி, மலேசியாவில் ரூ.7.8 கோடி என வசூலை அள்ளியது ‘சிவாஜி’ படம். சிங்கப்பூரில் எந்தவொரு தமிழ்ப்படமும் இதுவரை காணாத வசூலை கண்டுள்ளது எனவும் அங்கிருந்து வரும் தகவல்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.
உலகமெங்கும் திரையிடப்பட்ட ‘சிவாஜி’ படம் 3 வாரங்களில் மட்டும் ரூ.95 கோடியை வசூலித்துள்ளது என கூறப்படுகிறது.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Pl post content only in English (we will not process non-English comments in future except for occasional Tamil words written in English with English equivalent provided in brackets).
Makes it impossible for non-Tamil makkal (people) to follow.
2. Your Link (provided by you above for maalaimalar) is not working.
sorry dude or dudette, just wanted to prove a point that media (that too tamil newspapers) reports about tamil movie boxoffice collections cannot be trusted!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Wish we had objective, third party box office sources for Kollywood movies.
http://www.tamilnaduentertainment.com/foraystat.asp claims to be “the unique trade magazine for the cine industry is a monthly issue circulated for the benefit of the industry” and it declares that Sivaji was a profit for distributors..
those distributors are scumbags, they were probably trying to eke some money out of rajini (he compensated them for Baba’s losses).. the movie ran for over 100 days in 100 theaters.. how could it be a loss.. the media will sensationalize it.
hi gandhiji see this sivaji has grossed 95cr in three weeks. dasa has crossed 100cr in less than three weeks.
sivaji was an average hit only because of huge hype creation by media. it ran 100 days in 100 theatres no definitley not. it ran 100 dys only in chennai not in any other cities in tamilnadu.
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/july-08-02/dasavatharam-08-07-08.html
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. The media hype for Dasavatharam was no less.
2. Where are the sources for your oft-repeated claim that Sivaji caused loss to distributors
Dilip
Unlike the BS box office reports, the number of days cannot be faked:
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/33720.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20070922/r_t_ibn_en/ten-sivaji-touches-the-magic-mark-comple-0ce06e0_1.html
http://us.rediff.com/movies/2007/sep/21sivaji.htm
and more if you search for http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sivaji+%22100+days+in%22
Dasa won’t match it.. Kamal himself has admitted that it is crap.
you wrote”The media hype for Dasavatharam was no less” No, definitely not. media hype for dasa was very less
all the english channels like ndtv, cnnibn, timesnow were always giving news only about sivjai. sivaji is loss to distributors. this news is given by tamilmurasu and dinakran newspaper. i am afraid that i cannot give the source because it is in tamil and i am also not sure whether news given by that newspapers are true.
but credible sources givne by gandhiji and other shows that dasa has grossed more than sivaji.gandhiji no of days is not important only the gross is important .rajni fans will finnce the exhibitors to makea movie run for 100days.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: sivaji is loss to distributors. this news is given by tamilmurasu and dinakran newspaper. i am afraid that i cannot give the source because it is in tamil and i am also not sure whether news given by that newspapers are true.
Wow, You are not sure of the credibility of your own source above. Yet you repeatedly claim that Sivaji is a loss to distributors based on that very doubtful source.
What did you drink as a child. Surely, not Horlicks.
gandhiji sources givne by you clearly shows that sivaji released in 232 thetre in tamilnadu and in 800 thetres world wide. das has relesed in 250 thetres in tamilnadu and 250 in andhra, 85 in kerela,100 in karnataka and around 25 in north india.totally 710 screens in india itself.50 screens in usa nad 75 screens in rest of world.so atlest 30 more than sivaji. ok it relesed in many thetre and also it is a much bigger hit than sivaji with less hype created by media.
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/july-08-02/dasavatharam-08-07-08.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=26&p=.htm
mandu dilip, do you have the breakdown of collections — behindwoods seems to rely on the numbers from boxofficemojo.. so they are essentially the same.
lets take UK
1) Dasa is out of the UK charts after week 3.
2) Sivaji collected more on week 4 than Dasa collected on week 3. And it was on the charts for 6 weeks.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/?yr=2007&wk=27&p=.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/?yr=2008&wk=26&p=.htm
lets take Malaysia:
Sivaji had collected more money from 4 weeks from less number of theaters. Mandu, the number of theaters is not important. number of viewers is.
lets take India, Singapore, Australia or any country with big indian presence:
We have no data.
Do you have stats from any other country on Boxofficemojo? No..(not even India) I think the overseas total comparison between Dasa and Sivaji is bogus. Either the Dasa numbers are manipulated by AssCar team or Sivaji’s numbers are drawn from insufficient sources — the numbers should be similar for both movies.. actually it could be better for Sivaji if we extrapolate the data from UK and Malaysia.
MORE MONEY FROM LESS NUMBER OF THEATERS! Anyway, Kuselan is going to kill Dasa.
I speed-watched a P.o.S called Kaalai - Dasavatharam is a classicc if Kaalai is considered a movie. There is your warning, searchinida- I have sacrificed myself for your sake. You probably can skip watching/reviewing that.
Dilip, if you rank the Kamal movies, at what number would you rank Dasavatharam in terms of watchability? Probably #20?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: speed-watched a P.o.S called Kaalai - Dasavatharam is a classicc if Kaalai is considered a movie. There is your warning, searchinida - I have sacrificed myself for your sake. You probably can skip watching/reviewing that.
Thanks.
Siimbhu is bad. No question.
But when you consider the kid’s age, you tend to feel that there is a possibility (remote??) that he could improve. The kid handled Vallavan when he was 23.
looks like Dilip has given up.
Chennai BO.. dasa seems to have started losing steam as expected..
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-2/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-dasavatharam.html
Dasa had 63% occupancy in the 5th weekend.
http://www.naachgaana.com/2007/07/23/chennai-box-office-battle-sivaji-or-kireedom/
Sivaji had 78% occupancy in the 6th weekend. Collections marginally less than Dasa because of the exorbitant ticket prices(swindling b*s#*&ds) this year.
Sivaji’s collection record will remain intact. Kuselan may not break it. Dasa is a blockbuster.. collection-wise. not as big as Sivaji though. Kudos Kamal .. you tricked a lot of people with your 10-role gimmick!
Simbhu has a Kamal complex.. thinks too much of himself. I did like his Manmadhan too.. despite his overaction. Watched it with very low expectations.. it helped. I love that song “Kadhal Valarthaen” from that movie.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
No, no. Dilip is a tough cookie. He doesn’t give up easily…he has that never say die attitude.
Yes, it does seem like Dasavatharam may have recovered its investment and may even have made some money.
After Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Love Story 2050, we haven’t seen any Indian movies…although we watched two French movies in NYC Tell No One and Roman De Gare, and one Italian movie Cinema Paradiso on DVD (Very good - available at Blockbuster & Netflix).
We are waiting to see The Dark Knight, the new Batman movie releasing Thursday night in the U.S.
His pal boxofficemojo didn’t include Dasa in the last week’s edition.. probably realized their folly that there were being tricked into publishing ludicrous numbers. And so behindwoods and numerous other kamal fanatic blogs didn’t cut and paste the numbers from
http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=27&p=.htm
The Dark Knight trailer is very interesting. Looks like “The Joker” may dominate the movie. He may be better than the Jack Nicholson edition. Poor Heath Ledger.. He banged Jake in Brokeback Mountain and tried to bang Jake’s sister Maggie here and finally all the Gyllenhal banging took its toll.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Even if Dasavatharam makes a gazillion $$$, we’d still consider it a mediocre movie.
2. Probably the drugs took their toll on Heath Ledger.
3. We liked Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain a lot. His Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was great, of course. Lee’s recent movie Lust, Caution was not in the same league.
Liked both those aforementioned Ang Lee movies..\
Liked
The Ice Storm (1997)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
too
Wanted to watch Wei Tang in Lust, Caution for the you-know-what reason. Haven’t gotten to it. “A skinstant classic!” according to MrSkin. Watched the highlights already.. but wanted to watch the whole movie too.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, who plays the male lead in Lust Caution, is an excellent actor. We liked him in Lust Caution and even more so in Wong Kar-wai’s fine movie In the Mood for Love (Netflix). Wei Tang is a good actress too.
By the way, our own Anupam Kher has a small role in Lust Caution though his name is missing in the title credits.
Distributors say they lost heavily in Sivaji but recovered due to Dasa: [Links to images of Tamil publications]
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Please provide links to English publications so that everyone can read them.
One estimate says, Sivaji grossed 350 Crores http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1219&issueid=34
I’d think business today will be more sincere than Nakheeeran with too many Es. Gopalu has proved to be anti-rajini earlier too.
One thing is for sure, Sivaji ran stronger than Dasa in Chennai according to the CBO, & UK and Malaysia according to Boxofficemojo. Boxofficemojo has stopped publishing INTL Dasa numbers since last week.. so something fishy there about the numbers from previous weeks.
We have proof that Sivaji was amazing for the following distributors:
Chennai: (recovered in 5 weeks)
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/shivaji-chennai-city-180707.html
Ayngaran (overseas distribution): Made 25 million dollars out of 2.5 million investment
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200806250830044710X
So that compensates for whatever frivolous claims an unscrupulous distributor in some pattithotti has..
I am pretty sure that it was profitable in other south indian states too.. AP etc.. I can dig up reports for them too. I have no idea why I am doing this.. but I am obsessed.
Was successful in NJ (yo searchindia, what is your perception.. how did Dasa fare against Sivaji in NJ.. I’d think it was almost equal)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UURIUqGWWvs&feature=related
Dasa was removed after 4 weeks, but not sure how long Sivaji ran for.
Sivaji ran for 100 days in Canada and UK.. Dasa has no chance to match that.
Rajini has a much bigger fan-base (and Sivaji gave more to Rajini fans than what Dasa gave to Kamal fans)..
sorry, KFA!
Behindwoods doesn’t seem to keep an archive of the previous weeks’ reports.
I’ll post the CBO numbers so that we can track the decline of Dasa every week and celebrate:
From http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-2/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-dasavatharam.html
No. Weeks Completed: 4
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 246
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 65 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.51,77,425
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fifth weekend: Rs.7.53 Crore
Sivaji:
N.O. Weeks Completed: 4.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over the last week: 700.
Average Theatre Occupancy over the last week: 72 %.
Collection over the last week in Chennai: Rs.1.25 crores.
Total collections in Chennai by end of the fourth weekend: Rs.7.01 crores.
Dasa collection after 4 weeks was 51 lakhs, Sivaji was 1.25 crores. Dasa will fall behind Sivaji after 5 weeks (It was ahead for 4 weeks because of the higher number of shows and higher ticket prices).. If the production cost was really 130 crores(http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1360556) as some reports suggest, Dasa will be a box office disaster.. but profitable if the cost was 60 crores as some other reports suggest.
I’d say Chennai, UK and Malaysia will be the trend that the rest of the world will also be following. SIVAJI WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN DASAVATHARAM!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. There was a frenzy and excitement for Sivaji at the movie hall in New Jersey that we never witnessed for Dasavatharam.
Sivaji ran for only 15 days in NJ because it was released in Cineplaza, North Bergen, which closed on June 30, 2007 (recently reopened under a different name Phoenix Theatres Columbia Park Stadium 12). But Sivaji also ran here and there in North East - in Queens (NY), Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and maybe one or two other places.
2. The Dasavatharam folks may have done a better job in terms of releasing the movie in more theatres. In NJ alone, Dasavatharam was released in three different areas - Movie City (Edison), Newark Screens (Newark) and Multiplex Cinemas (East Windsor). Plus Virgina, CT, Boston and Pittsburgh. When a movie is released in more places, viewership may increase because resistance to a long drive comes down.
3. The EQ (Entertainment Quotient) was higher for Sivaji than for Dasavatharam but overall we didn’t think much of Sivaji either.
4. If we remember correctly, the online interest for Sivaji was much higher (based on our traffic, keyword searches et al) than for Dasavatharam.
I know you didn’t think much of Sivaji. I never liked any of Shankar’s movies… except Anniyan(and of course, Sivaji). He thrusts his messages in the most unsubtle way on the audience. Anniyan was probably saved by Vikram, easily the best lead act in a Shankar movie (beats out the fat/old Kamal in Indian).
But Rajini’s electricity was astounding in Sivaji.. a non-Rajini fan may not appreciate it. All the critics who dissed Dasa were unanimous in praising Rajini’s charisma. I had written off all positive reviews as hype until I watched the movie. It is magical that Rajini was able to captivate so many people in such a crappy story.
Shankar gave the Rajini fans to a lot cheer about.
You were probably disappointed about spending 25$. I paid 11$(finally fell for the hype, but it was worth it) after 3 weeks in Atlanta.. so that wasn’t bad. Going in very low expectation also helped.
The Motta Boss introduction is one of the most exhilarating scenes Rajini has ever done. My 3 year old son watches the Motta Boss scene with the same passion with which he watches Spiderman. Rajini fans would have revisited the theaters just to see that.. And there are plenty more sizzling scenes in Sivaji. There are no such scenes in Dasa.
You had mentioned that Suman had done well.. but I think the real screen stealer in Suman’s scenes was AR Rehman’s background score.. it was terrific. Without AR Rehman, Sivaji wouldn’t have been that big. Shreya was another big reason(she has two big reasons).
Unfortunately(for Kamal and his fans) on top of Kamal’s crappy screenplay and ugly masks, his supporting cast also let him down.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. We probably went in with very high expectations given that we’d seen and greatly enjoyed Anniyan (from Shankar). Plus, of course the enormous hype.
2. Yes, Vikram was very good in Anniyan (reminded us of the book Sybil by Flora Rita Schreiber) but his last movie Bheema was a travesty. Recently, a regular reader of the SearchIndia.com blog posted this interesting comment after watching Bheema: However the film did have one big highlight. The death of both Vikram and Trisha. I just wished it had happened sooner (in Trisha’s case at least)
3. Sivaji is a gazillion times better (we actually mean slicker) compared to the routine trash shoveled out by Kollywood.
4. The Cineplaza theatre in North Bergen (now under Anil Ambani’s AdLabs, we think) is a piece of shit rivaled only by the equaly bad Movie City (Edison, NJ also now owned by AdLabs???). Some 15 or 20 minutes after Sivaji started, they stopped the screening and asked the audience to move to a different hall because of sound system issues. Perhaps that also sub-consciously influenced our perception of Sivaji.
Thanks for the Sybil tip. I am not much of a reader (all I read is box office reports!)
Did some searches and landed on
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/awards.
Have you seen the movie? Looks like the movie has a big cult following.
Sally Field would have done really well from what I have seen on youtube. She has 16avatharam in this movie.. Kamal could have probably taken up this story to flaunt his acting skills.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
No, we haven’t seen the movie Sybil but we’ve read the book. Just added it to our Netflix queue.
A lot of readers complain that we are anti-Bollywood or anti-Kollywood. But after watching movies like On the Waterfront (the cab scene was great), Sunset Blvd, Casablanca, Chinatown, Eastern Promises and Citizen Kane and actors like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Ingrid Bergman, it’s hard to summon any respect for the likes of on-screen tormentors like the Ajiths, Abhisheks, Aishwaryas and the Trishas of Bollywood & Kollywood. Forget Hollywood, the French or Italians - Koreans and Chinese make movies better than our Bollywood bozos.
N.B.: BTW, Netflix is coming shortly to XBox 360 Live Gold.
my obsession continues
Sivaji - The BOSS is still running in Edison, NJ and Queens, NY. And it’s completing 50th day tomorrow in NJ. I am not sure about other centers in USA, but it’s a first South Indian movie had record number of shows and completing 50 days in NJ.
says a guy in http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/archives/Tamil_Films/t10145_Sivaji___The_deaf_frog_towards_the_hilltop_____10_.html
Have never touched an XBox in my life.. have been wanting a Wii.. will probably get one during thanksgiving.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
http://www.cineplazaonline.com/cp13/index.asp
Unless the Tamil version of Sivaji also released elsewhere later in NJ (which we doubt), we think it unlikely the movie could have run for 50 days. Telugu version was screened at Movie City, Edison (NJ) later. Perhaps, the person in the link you provided looked at the two separate dates and thought Sivaji was running for 50 days.
Gandhiji, Dasa has already exceeded the expectation of people here in chennai . It is running in packed houses and the 5th weekend collection in chennai alone is 7.5 crores compared to shivaji’s 7.2 crores. It has grossed 225 crores till date.
http://sssjv.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/dasavatharam-makes-225-crores-collection/
Shija had grossed 140 crores on a hole ,so it has already overtaken shivaji. I believe you are living in your own dreamland.
One estimate says, Sivaji grossed 350 Crores http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1219&issueid=34
when we read this link which was posted by you it tells that it is expected to gross 350 crores and not collected 350 crores for your information still sholay with 240 crores holds the record for a highest grossing indian movie.
This clearly shows that your information is incorrect and you are a Rajini fanatic.
The wikepedia link below shows that the movie had only grossed 90 crores after the hype and hoopla.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivaji:_The_Boss
The movie has exaggerated and conflicting reports on the cumulative box-office collections worldwide. However according to Business today Nov 2007 edition the film gathered only about Rs.90 crores at the box-office[54], a record of sorts for south Indian films. Recently, a Silver Jubilee function was organized for the film which, in local parlance, symbolizes the box-office success of.
So let us wait for the final wikepedia result for dasa and keep our fingers crossed. Then we could judge who the real winner is.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: Shija had grossed 140 crores on a hole ,so it has already overtaken shivaji.
What does that mean? What is Shija?
yay, another Kamal fanatic.. Anyway, I didn’t say that I trusted Business Today.. I just implied that Business today is more trustworthy than Nakheeran, because Gopalu has issues with Rajini.
It is actually better than the sssjv.wordpress.com link you gave.. some unknown KF.
Who said wikipedia can be trusted.
http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3139&issueid=34 best explains the situation. Nobody has any clue.
225 Crores is ridiculous as is Sivaji’s 350. Yes, I know it is ahead after 4 weeks.. but occupancy% suggest that it won’t be able to keep up. We will know next week.
And WTH is Shija.
Oh yeah i am a Kamal fanatic for sure. But i am also a fan of quality movies. I missed the “va” in shivaji mate ,so it appeared shiji instead of shivaji anyway thanks for pointing the mistake.
The following link posted by you,
http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3139&issueid=34
clearly suggest the sivaji (I have checked the spelling twice this time……..lol) has gross somewhere around 90 -150 crores . I am sure that dasavatharam will over take this amount shortly.
Regarding the occupancy percentage i agree with you as it will obviously deteriorate as days go by. Dasavatharam,sivaji,baasha,nayagan or any film is not an exception to the theater occupancy after the initial weeks.
Finally i would like to know whose information is the most trusted by you,because you have mentioned that ssjv.wordpress.com ,Nakheeran ,wikipedia are least trusted and business today is more trustworthy than Nakheeran. Other than these if there is any please let me notify that media source i would provide you the appropriate stats that Dasavatharam is commercially a superior hit than sivaji for sure in the near future.
Hey Aloysius, Nakkallakku onnum katchall Illa.. As the business today article says nobody has a clue. We need to contend
1) with people trying to hide from the IT
2) scumbag distributors trying to take advantage of Rajini’s refund policy
3) Rajini and kamal fanatics throwing around ridiculously opposite numbers
Dasa box office tracking:
No. Weeks Completed: 5
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 207
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 60 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.44,49,201.35
Total collections in Chennai by end of the sixth weekend: Rs.8.55 Crore
Not bad.. I thought that the fall will be even more precipitous.
Sivaji after week 5:
N.O. Weeks Completed: 5.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over the last week: 609.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 243.
Average Theatre Occupancy over the last week: 63 %.
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 78 %.
Collection over the last week in Chennai: Rs.1.00 crores.
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.0.48 crores.
Total collections in Chennai by end of the sixth weekend: Rs.8.50 crores.
I thought that Dasa would fall behind this week.. but just barely escaped(just 5 lakhs ahead).. but you can see the signs.
Sivaji had 18% higher occupancy than Dasa in the 6th weekend — if we take into account the pricier tickets this year.. then Dasa would have already been behind.
And Sivaji didn’t have to contend with Kuselan which is opening in 2 weeks.
At this point of time(after 5 weeks), we need to conclude that Sivaji and Dasa made the same amount of money after 5 weeks world-wide.. But as you see the decline of Dasa is faster.. 65% to 60%. If we agree that Sivaji made 140 crores after running for 14 weeks in over 100 theaters.. we are not even 1/2 way through.. and the Dasa trend has started declining much faster than Sivaji.
As boxofficemojo shows, Sivaji beat Dasa in both UK and Malaysia. Dasa is not even able to keep up with Muniyandi, which is a flop, in Malaysia.
So while Dasa is profitable (if it was made for 60 crores), it wouldn’t gross as much as Sivaji.
SinkTrac.. it seems to have had another good week.. just not Sivaji-level..
Dasa:
No. Weeks Completed: 6
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 192
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 60 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.38,34,552.60
Total collections in Chennai by end of the seventh weekend: Rs.9.44 Crore
Sivaji:
N.O. Weeks Completed: 6.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over the last week: 324.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 225.
Average Theatre Occupancy over the last week: 65 %.
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 78 %.
Collection over the last week in Chennai: Rs.1.00 crores.
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.0.45 Crores
Total collections in Chennai by end of the sixth weekend: Rs.9.00 crores - looks like that reporting was done just before the 7th weekend.
Gandhiji enakku romba nakkala illa unnaku romba nakkallanu intha stats sollum,
Dasavatharam - 80th Position (Current Position)
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/yearly/
Sivaji - Total Collection: $5,871,620 (335th Position)
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/yearly/?yr=2007&sort=gross&order=DESC&pagenum=4&p=.htm
The above boxofficemojo link shows that Dasa’s collection all around the world is 63 crores while Sivaji’s collection is a mere 25 crores. This collection includes Malaysia, U.K,parts of India and all overseas markets. This does not include chennai,Andra or Kerala and U.S box office collections. According to your comparison and stats Sivaji is already 45 lakhs behind Dasa by the end of 6th week . If Sivaji can gross 150 Crores with just 25 Crore oveseas collection i wonder how Dasa could not collect 200 Crores or more with an overseas opening of 63 Crores.
Dasa has already collected more money than Sivaji in chennai with fewer no of shows over the weekend. I am not sure how you could compare a movie which has already crossed 200 Crores with a movie that could not satisfy expectation of people after the hype created before its release.
Ippa solluppa yarukku nakkallnu!!!!!!!!
boxofficemojo stopped updating because dasa’s false stats corrupted their system.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/
Dasa Trac.. this will become a useful reference stat-lovers like me to rate movies for commercial success… Dasa is proving to be almost as big as Sivaji.. but not quite.
searchindia, you can stop publishing this post.. i will take a hint and stop posting the BO information..
Dasa probably suffered the Kuselan effect.. number of shows has been cut to half.
No. Weeks Completed: 7
No. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 101
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 55 %
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.15,54,228
Total collections in Chennai by end of the eighth weekend: Rs.10.08 Crore
N.O. Weeks Completed: 7.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over the last week: 300.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 189.
Average Theatre Occupancy over the last week: 65 %.
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 74 %.
Collection over the last week in Chennai: Rs.0.50 crores.
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.0.38 Crores
Total collections in Chennai by end of the eighth weekend: Rs.9.90 crores
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: searchindia, you can stop publishing this post.. i will take a hint and stop posting the BO information..
Please go ahead with the box office stats. We are sure some readers will find it valuable.
gandhiji you are in the dark room. you are the only one who is saying dasa is not bigger hit than sivaji. you must be really adament. kuselan is a downright failure inspite of huge artificial hype created by media. das has grossed more than 10cr from cnai alone in less than 8 weeks. sivaji grossed only 95cr not even 100cr. dasa is already touching 150cr mark
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/aug-08-01/dasavatharam-05-08-08.html
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-2/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-dasavatharam.html
sivaji took 12 weeks to touch 10cr mark in cnai.
dasa took only 7 weeks.
dasa has ran 50 days in about 1425 cinema halls.record that has not created by any tamil movie.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: kuselan is a downright failure inspite of huge artificial hype created by media.
On what basis do you say Kuselan is a failure?
Here in the U.S., we just read that Kuselan distributors have now reduced the ticket price to $10.00 (We paid $16.00 on Friday).
hi gandhiji you rajni fanatic this link clearly shows that dasa has grossedd many more than sivaji.
it has grossed 2cr rs from england alone.it celebrated 50days in all the theatres it released.
http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/18072008-2.shtml
http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/19062008-3.shtml
it has celebrated 50days even in uae,some screens in us.
some in uk some in malysia and singapore.
it has celebrated 50 days in all the theatre it has relesed in andhraa, kl and karnataka and in mumbai and delhi. remember Hindi version is still to come.
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/rajini-uncrowned-emperor-271207.html
Sivaji made 160 crore. Over 14 crores in Chennai. It crossed 10 crores in 8 weeks. It has 9.9 crores in 7 weeks, how can it take 12 weeks to cross 10.. silly!
N.O. Weeks Completed: 8.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over the last week: 252.
N.O. Shows in Chennai over this weekend: 153.
Average Theatre Occupancy over the last week: 53 %.
Average Theatre Occupancy over this weekend: 64 %.
Collection over the last week in Chennai: Rs.0.37 crores.
Collection over this weekend in Chennai: Rs.0.26 Crores
Total collections in Chennai by end of the eighth weekend: Rs.10.53 crores
You couldn’t wait, right?
It made 38 lakhs in the eighth weekend. Dasa made 15 lakhs..
Saying that Dasa is a bigger success than Sivaji is like saying that “Kuruvi” is bigger than “Haridas” because it grossed more. It was marketed better in the early weeks, but it is not able to match the staying power. People want to check out the 10 role gimmick (and end up disappointed).
You have no proof that Dasa made 150 crores. It may have run 50 days in some screens in UAE.. but it won’t run 100 days in UK and Canada like Sivaji did. Sivaji collected 2.75 crores in UK (as opposed to Dasa’s 2 from more number of screens).
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/july-07-01/03-07-07-sivaji.html
And Kuselan took 1 crore in the first week in UK. Rajini put in about a month’s worth Vs. Kamal’s two years off toiling.. it must be frustrating to be a Kamal fan. I sincerely hope that Marmayogi is as good as Kamal’s good movies.. Dasa was pure P.O.S.
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/box-office/2008/kuselan-leads-060808.html
gandhiji your comedy does not seem to stop. you said even muniyandi is bigger hit than dasa. you are silly get your facts wright. sivaji has grossed only 11 cr from chennai even after 15 weeks. you are saying it grosseed 14cr. sivaji at last grossed only 95cr.
see this report from the production house avm.you seem to know even more than producers.
http://www.hindu.com/rp/2008/04/20/stories/2008042050090200.htm
dasa has alredy touching 150cr mark.it has run 50 days in around 250 cinema halls in tamilnadu. in 250 cinema halls in andhra. 80 in kerala.even in uae ,in us uk and malaysia.it ran 50 days.you are just dreaming.
hi gandhiji you are saying kuselan a hit comparing to dasa.r u totally mad .do you have anything called brain.
kuselan is utter flop and it is washout.
most of the theatres are empty within a week.go to inox website and sathyam website most of the tickets are available.
http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/06082008-6.shtml
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/rajini-magic-failing-kuselan-struggles-at-bo/70500-8.html .
stop your comedy when the whole world is saying onr thing you are saying a different thing.
Hey Gandhiji,
What happened ma…… Are you in August 2007? Now August 2008 is running ma.
Dasa already collected 10+ C in chennai in 50 days. But Sivaji 9+ C in chennai after 100 days.Don’t get jealous ma. Agree dasa is big hit than sivaji.
Remember
Kamal = Shankar + Rajini + ARR + vivek
Dear MKM* Dilip,
1) Regarding your claim “you are saying kuselan a hit comparing to da