Kamal Haasan’s Tamil Film Struggles To Even Reach Rs 50 Cr Mark

Superstar Kamal Haasan teamed up with legendary filmmaker Mani Ratnam after 38 years for their movie ‘Thug Life’. The movie has receiving a mixed response from the audience despite creating massive hype before its release. Thug Life is also struggling at the box office and has barely managed to reach Rs 40 crore mark within five days.

Thug Life Box Office Collection Day 5:

According to the website Sacnilk, ‘Thug Life’ collected Rs 3.25 crore on day 5 as per early estimates. The movie collected Rs 40.15 crores in total within five days.

The team of Thug Life earlier promoted their movie in Delhi and interacted with the media. During this interaction, Kamal Haasan talked about keeping an eight-week OTT window for Thug Life. For the unversed, many actors and filmmakers have talked about how OTT has been impacting the theatrical business. While speaking about this, he revealed that the team of Thug Life requested the OTT platform to have an eight-week gap for the streaming release. He further emphasised that this move can help other movies too.

He shared, “We requested them, it was not a negotiation or deal breaker. We wanted them to do this for us. Both the company and the OTT platform are experimenting with this together. And if it works, we would have made it easier to do both the businesses.”

Kamal Haasan recently talked about the imposition of Hindi on other states. He said, “Without imposition, we will learn. Don’t impose, because this is ultimately education and we must take the shortest route to education… and not put hurdles in its way.”

He emphasised that resistance to Hindi imposition is not just a southern concern, and said, calling for linguistic inclusivity across India, “I stand with Punjab. I stand with Karnataka. I stand with Andhra. This is not the only place which is a resenting imposition.”

Thug Life also stars Trisha, Silambarasan, Abhirami, Sanya Malhotra, Ashok Selvan, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Joju George, Nassar, Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi, Rohit Saraf and Vaiyapuri.