The most anticipated pan Indian film Ramayana, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi in the lead roles and directed by Nitesh Tiwari, was released in theatres on November 5th as a Diwali special.
Even though Ramayana’s Day-1 numbers in India were not up to expectations, day by day, the bookings for the film have been increasing and the film is now on a rampage at the box office.
Surprisingly, in Tamil Nadu, Ramayana is performing well, with super positive responses from audiences and the collections in the state are even bigger than the Telugu states’ collections. Usually, the Telugu states’ collections are much higher compared to Tamil Nadu for pan-Indian biggies, but for Ramayana, it is completely the opposite.
According to reports, with just 567 morning and matinee shows in Tamil Nadu, Ramayana has collected more than 2.30 crores, whereas with around 1,171 shows in the Telugu states, it has collected only around 2.10 crores. With this report, it is evident that Ramayana’s occupancy is going strong in Tamil Nadu.
At the same time, even though previous epic Ramayana-based movies performed well all over India, Tamil people usually did not connect with them, as they have always had strong opposition to those films, claiming that Ravana was portrayed negatively, which they feel was completely contrary to their perspective and noting that those adaptations were influential in a bad way.
However, since the recently released Ramayana is performing well in Tamil Nadu, many critics suspect that the major reason behind these unrealistic numbers in Tamil Nadu might be that the character of Ravana was glorified in this film.
They claim that the character of Ravana in the recently released Ramayana was completely different from previous adaptations and explored his positive side, which is why they feel this Ramayana has impressed the Tamil people.
Ultimately, Ramayana is putting up massive numbers in Tamil Nadu and it remains to be seen how it will perform at the box office in the following days and whether it will create any new records in the final run.
