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When <keyword id="707762" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Thalaivar">Thalaivar</keyword> takes the centre stage, big bucks are bound to roll in. The <keyword id="25892" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="box-office">box office</keyword> drought is finally over as silver screen sensation <keyword id="14509" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</keyword>’s latest outing <keyword id="1849408" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kochadaiiyaan">Kochadaiiyaan</keyword> has turned out to be a smash hit, crossing the Rs 50 crore mark in just five days, according to industry estimates. The movie grossed Rs 42 crore worldwide in the first three days, according to a release by <keyword id="128026" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Eros-International">Eros International</keyword>. Domestic collections amounted to Rs 30 crore in the opening weekend while the rest came from overseas business. This could be equivalent to Rs 32.3 crore nett worldwide, as per trade estimates. “Kochadaiiyaan opening weekend – Worldwide: Rs 42 cr gross. All 6 languages. 2D and 3D. SUPERB,” film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted. 
 However, first Monday collections dipped considerably to Rs 5 crore in the <keyword id="1761158" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="indian-circuit">Indian circuit</keyword> while the movie managed to earn Rs 4.5 crore at home on the first Tuesday. Although overseas numbers for these two days are not available yet, industry insiders put gross worldwide collections at Rs 50 crore-plus just after five days. “Kochadaiiyaan… has fared exceptionally well in <keyword id="8695" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Malaysia">Malaysia</keyword> in particular. Is good in the <keyword id="6355055" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="USA">USA</keyword>, the UK &amp; <keyword id="6355478" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Australia">Australia</keyword>,” Adarsh tweeted about weekday business. With earnings from <keyword id="6358065" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Satellite">satellite</keyword> rights in multiple languages, audio and music rights, brand tie-ups and other income, the film is well on its way to cross Rs 100 in revenues. 
 This period drama-cum-futuristic fantasy was off to a stupendous start on Friday (May 23), hitting 3,000-plus theatres worldwide. Eros International released the film in 2D and 3D, in 6 languages, and directly undertook the distribution in <keyword id="20154" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="tamil-nadu">Tamil Nadu</keyword>. The flick saw nearly 95% occupancy in Tamil Nadu where Rajinikanth has a huge fan following. In contrast, the Telugu version saw a lacklustre beginning at home, grossing only Rs 5 crore in the first 3 days. Business slumped in the <keyword id="2266509" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Northern-belt">Northern belt</keyword> as well and the Rajini-starrer significantly lagged behind with Rs 4 crore gross during the first three days. The budget of this movie is Rs 125 crore across all languages. 
 In case you are not aware of its many merits, let us quickly run you through some landmarks. Directed by <keyword id="1800934" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Soundarya-R-Ashwin">Soundarya R. Ashwin</keyword> (Rajini’s daughter) and written by K.S. Ravikumar, Kochadaiiyaan is India’s first 3D film to use <keyword id="2266515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Photorealistic-motion-capturing">photorealistic motion capturing</keyword> techniques – a technology that makes animation as lifelike as possible (you had a good dose of it in James Cameron’s <keyword id="44111" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Avatar">Avatar</keyword>). The film has Rajinikanth in triple roles – Kochadaiiyaan, Rana and Sena. <keyword id="598" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Deepika-Padukone">Deepika Padukone</keyword>, <keyword id="297" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jackie-Shroff">Jackie Shroff</keyword>, <keyword id="1029184" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="nassar">Nassar</keyword> and <keyword id="24628" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shobana">Shobana</keyword> did pretty well in other key roles in the film. The music has been composed by <keyword id="11851" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="AR-Rahman">AR Rahman</keyword> and cinematography has been handled by Padmesh. 
 
For the thinking audience, however, the storyline has nothing new. It features the same old conflict between the good and the evil but also comes with some surprising twists and moral dilemmas. Yet, at the end, it tires more than illuminates, failing to take you past the visual dazzle. As film critic Shubhra Gupta so rightly notes, “Even Rajini, the one and the only, can’t pick up a film and run with it, if it has the oldest, creakiest plots cobbled together from many books. But the best tech specs in the world can’t rescue a sinking story… After a point, it all becomes too much sound and fury and not much else. One Rajini flipping cigarettes is much more fun than two Rajinis flinging swords in never never land.” 
 
 
 Produced by <keyword id="27326" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sajid-Nadiadwala">Sajid Nadiadwala</keyword> and directed by <keyword id="616900" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sabbir-Khan">Sabbir Khan</keyword>, <keyword id="1184791" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Heropanti">Heropanti</keyword> (a remake of the 1983 movie Hero) is the other release of the week and has performed better than Kochadaiiyaan in the northern circuits. The action-romance flick has seen an influx of debut actors (a total of 21) including <keyword id="133664" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tiger-Shroff">Tiger Shroff</keyword> (Jackie’s son) and <keyword id="210696" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kriti-Sanon">Kriti Sanon</keyword> in the lead roles 
 
“Heropanti passes the crucial ‘Monday test.’ Fri 6.63 cr, Sat 6.42 cr, Sun 8.28 cr, Mon 4.26 cr. Total: Rs 25.59 cr nett. India biz,” tweeted Adarsh while trade figure puts the domestic collections at Rs 24.96 crore. <keyword id="1996079" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Overseas-collections">Overseas collections</keyword> stood at Rs 2.13 crore gross after Day 4. The masala entertainer was released in 2,100 screens across India and its debut day earning is the fifth highest opening day collection for movies released in 2014, behind <keyword id="6593120" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jai-Ho">Jai Ho</keyword>, <keyword id="72970" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="2-States">2 States</keyword>, <keyword id="6427325" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gunday">Gunday</keyword> and <keyword id="1020628" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ragini-MMS-2">Ragini MMS 2</keyword>. Earnings on Monday fell less than 40% than what it was on Friday and the strong growth continued even on Day 5 (Tuesday, May 27) when it collected around Rs 4 crore at home. 
 
This one is a medium-budget movie and cost around Rs 26 crore including promotion. So we can safely assume that it is set to be a hit without much fuss. But all these good numbers do not essentially spell quality. 
 While Kriti Sanon (<keyword id="7876" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dimpy">Dimpy</keyword>) looks quite striking in a below-par storyline featuring love-and-marriage adventures and misadventures in Jattland, Tiger Shroff (<keyword id="230102" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bablu">Bablu</keyword>) looks quite inane unless he is in the thick of the action, doing some awesome stunts and beating up the goons. Noted film critic Anupama Chopra has given the movie 2 out of 5 stars saying, “Heropanti is comically bad and the disjointed narrative brims with low-IQ, high-testosterone men brandishing weapons. The women are puppets who either simper or scream.” 
 
Quite depressing, if you ask us, but there’s one silver lining. Both movies are raking in the moolah after a long time and that’s what matters in the business of cinema. 
 
Images: Indiatimes

Box Office: Kochadaiiyaan Thrives On Rajini Power; Heropanti Soaring High

<ul><li>Indian <keyword id="559334" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="actor-Rajinikanth">actor Rajinikanth</keyword> will receive the <keyword id="11027292" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="51st-dadasaheb-phalke-award">51st Dadasaheb Phalke award</keyword> – one of the most prestigious recognitions in the film industry.</li><li>Prakash Javadekar, the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting announced the news on Twitter and called <keyword id="14509" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</keyword>’s contribution to Indian cinema as iconic.</li><li>The likes of Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, K Balachander, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Soumitra Chatterjee, Manna Dey and many others have been recipients of the award.</li></ul>Indian actor Rajinikanth will receive the 51st <keyword id="54010" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dadasaheb-Phalke-award">Dadasaheb Phalke award</keyword> – one of the most prestigious recognitions in the film industry. Rajinikanth, who is called as thalaivar (leader or boss), has a God-like status in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. <div type="image" title="rajinikanth" msid="81818656" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Fans of Rajinikanth holding a protest at Valluvar Kottam in Chennai urging the actor to take the political plunge.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Prakash Javadekar, the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting announced the news on Twitter and called Rajinikanth’s contribution to Indian cinema as iconic. <div type="twitter" handle="PrakashJavdekar" handlename="Prakash Javadekar" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1305535718647713798/_lzITGyP_normal.png" favoritecount="1704" retweetcount="577" status="Happy to announce #Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2019 to one of the greatest actors in history of Indian cinema Rajnik… https://t.co/C7lYvTyGyi" createdat="1617252887000" id="1377484564965253121"></div> The likes of Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, K Balachander, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Soumitra Chatterjee, Manna Dey and many others have been recipients of the award. Born in 1950, Shivaji Rao Gaekwad came to be known as Rajinikanth as he began his journey in Kannada and then moved on to the Tamil film industry. Rajinikanth’s journey from being a bus conductor to one of India’s most recognised celebrities, makes him truly one of the legends in Indian cinema. He is also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, the second and third highest civilian honours in India, respectively. The star’s debut was in 1975 in K. Balachander's Tamil drama Apoorva Raagangal, and there has been no looking back since then. <div type="image" title="rajini" msid="81818670" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;A fan celebrating the release of a Rajini film&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Over his 44-year long career, he has done 206 films across languages. The actor had also contemplated an entry into politics but gave up the ambition earlier this year. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/news/government-withdraws-interest-rate-cut-on-small-savings-schemes-in-a-bizarre-u-turn/articleshow/81813361.cms">Folks investing in PPF or Sukanya Samriddhi scheme need not worry⁠ — the rate cuts have been rolled back</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/paytm-money-set-to-hire-250-engineers-for-its-new-technology-centre-in-pune/articleshow/81813092.cms">Paytm Money set to hire 250 engineers for its new technology centre in Pune</a>

Rajinikanth to receive the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke award

After Indian cricketer <keyword id="1518" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Irfan-Pathan">Irfan Pathan</keyword>, it is now the turn of his former teammate Harbhajan Singh to make his cinema debut, once again from Tamil. The 'turbanator' will star along popular actor Santhanam in his next flick 'Dickiloona,' the makers of the film said in a release on Tuesday. "Harbhajan Singh is acting in a very very important character in the film where Santhanam is featured in three roles," it said. The film is being jointly produced by KJR Studios and Soldier Factory, and helmed by Karthik Yogi. Yuvan Shankar Raja is scoring the music. Meanwhile, Singh tweeted in Tamil to thank the producers of roping him in the film. Tamil Nadu was the land from where 'Thalaivar, Thala and Thalapathy,' had emerged, he said in an apparent reference to superstar <keyword id="14509" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</keyword> and top actors <keyword id="115332" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ajith-Kumar">Ajith Kumar</keyword> and Vijay, respectively. Earlier, Pathan had come on-board a Tamil film starring actor Vikram and directed by Ajay Gananamuthu.

After Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh will make his cinema debut in Tamil

After J. Jailalithaa’s death, <keyword id="41902" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="AIADMK">AIADMK</keyword> is witnessing a hard time and this the second time in nearly three decades the party is facing such big challenge. The party had earlier plunged into turmoil following the death of its founder, M G Ramachandran (MGR). 
 
Jayalalithaa, 68, who died on Monday, ran the party single-handedly. She left no successor that can match her calibre. The party is facing a huge problem of finding a widely accepted interim leader, who will hold it together. With the party supremo dead, AIADMK workers are rudderless. 
 Disappointment was seen on the faces of cadres, even as ministers and elected representatives zipped past the bylanes of Greams Road where <keyword id="56368" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Apollo-Hospitals">Apollo Hospitals</keyword> is located, and the party headquarters on Lloyds Road. 
 "We saw our Puratchi Thalaivar in her. She was our <keyword id="6383069" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="AMMA">Amma</keyword> and there was none parallel to her," said R Valli Raju, a party functionary from Alandur, who's been camping near Apollo Hospitals since Sunday night. 
 Political analyst <keyword id="3925800" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="n-sathyamoorthy">N Sathyamoorthy</keyword> said that for the party to stay united and strengthen itself, it has to be through a presidium of sub-regional leaders. "If anyone tries to outsmart the other, it would only lead to disintegration, as happened immediately after MGR," he said.

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