Vijay film eyes Rs 200 crore mark worldwide

After months of delays and controversy surrounding its release, Vijay's Jana Nayagan, touted as the actor's swansong before his full-time entry into politics, finally hit theatres on Thursday. The film opened to an impressive response, collecting Rs 42.7 crore net on its first day. After earning Rs 21.15 crore net on Day 2, the film witnessed a strong jump on Day 3, collecting Rs 28.50 crore net, according to trade tracker Sacnilk. With this, Jana Nayagan has collected an estimated Rs 74.44 crore net and Rs 87.50 crore gross in India after three days of its theatrical run. Worldwide, the movie has grossed Rs 171.84 crore. Also Read | Lathis in Delhi, heroes on screen: As Singham turns 15, Bollywood’s supercop myth shattered The film recorded an overall Tamil occupancy of 61.04% on Sunday. Occupancy improved as the day progressed, with morning shows recording 42.92%, followed by 59.31% in the afternoon, 67% in the evening, and a high of 74.92% during the night shows. Among the key markets, Chennai recorded the highest occupancy at 86.8% across 1,046 shows, while Bengaluru registered 48.5% occupancy from 707 shows. In a recent interview, director H. Vinoth discussed the response to Jana Nayagan. He told Rangaraj Pandey, “Whenever a Vijay sir movie comes out, for about a week people say this is good, that isn’t good, this doesn’t work, that doesn’t, and all that. Then after a week, they say it’s not that great after all. Six months later, it starts becoming a big hit in society.” Produced by Venkat K. Narayana under the banner of KVN Productions, Jana Nayagan also stars Pooja Hegde and Mamitha Baiju, Nasser, Prakash Raj, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Narain, and Priyamani.