On the occasion of Thalapathy’s Birthday, let’s look at the Box Office Stamina of Vijay here
Thalapathy started his career with Nalaya Theerpu which is a Box office Failure. He continued to work in the direction of his father SAC. With not go good BO performance for first few movies.
His first success came through with Poove Unakaga which celebrated Silver Jublee across many centres of Tamil Nadu. This movie also brought him family audience.
Next big success came with Love Today and Thullatha Mananum Thullum. TMT brought him fan base in Kerala.
He has become a bankable star of Tamil Cinema with these movies.
After TMT, there came a slump in his career. He came back stunningly with four continuous Super hits Kushi , Friends , Priyamanavale and Badri.
Kushi was then the Highest Collected Tamil Movie in Kerala.
Then again a slump in his career with list of average movies.
Year 2004, he gave the phenomenal commercial Movie Ghilli. Ghilli was then the Highest Grosser of Tami Nadu bearing Padayappa.
Ghilli Opened his market Overseas. He has created some market in Europe , Malaysia , Singapore.
Thirupathi , Sivakasi and Pokkiri further increased his market across B & C centers of Tamilnadu.
Then the game changer of Tamil Cinema Thupakki. Thupakki was one of the Historical BlockBusters of Tamil cinema in Overseas.
Thupakki collected $5M Overseas, which is a Phenomenal achievement for a Non Rajni movie. Vijay became the Second actor after Rajni to do $5M.
No looking back from Thupakki for Vijay with respect to Overseas market.
He kept increasing his market overseas in each passing movie.
Kaththi collected $6M Overseas. Theri increased it and Collected $7M. $7M gross in overseas has been achieved only by Rajni and Vijay.
Theri was then the highest opened Tamil movie in Australia , France , Norway.
With Mersal, Vijay breached 10M market and collected $11M+ in overseas. Mersal ensures Vijay bested Rajni in few markets in Overseas like France, Europe, Srilanka.
Mersal had a Historical Opening in Overseas. Mersal is the Highest Opened Tami movie in Malaysia , Singapore and all European markets.
Mersal also gave Thalapathy the push in US Market. Mersal was still the Highest Grossing Tamil movie in France , Norway , Srilanka.
Sarkar saw a humongous opening in Overseas market in all regions. It bested Mersal opening in Malaysia. It has a phenomenal run in UAE & GCC.
Sarkar collected 10M Overseas with below average wom.
With ever growing Overseas Marker and Fan bade, BIGIL will do $13M Overseas with good wom.
Let’s with Vijay a Very happy birthday again :) !!
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