Friday, September 29, 2023

A surprise villain in Vijay Leo - Malayalam Stars trail behind Tamil Stars in Kerala BO

Leo continues to be in news. Latest is the storyline. Ijay and family live in a small town an earn their income by running a café. A violent gang enters the town and many residents are robbed and killed. How Vijay tackles the gang forms the story. Lokesh in an interview said that Sanjay Dutt an Arjun play brothers to Vijay in the film. However, second single Badaas shows Sanjay with menacing looks and deadly weapons as if he is the antagonist. So the real antagonist could be another actor and kept a surprise? Netizens say that second single BGM has similarity to the one played in a scene in Winner featuring Vadivelu. Producer Lalit Kumar revealed that there is a 8 minute before interval will give anybody goosebumps and says the Leo will break all Tamil film records. Yet another news is that Kamal has dubbed for Leo. Is Kamal coming as Commander Karna of Vikram as part of Lokesh Cinematic Universe? Or is he just giving an intro like PS 2 ?
Tamil Stars and SRK films have bigger opening than Malayalam Superstars in Kerala says a trade report. So far in 2023 the highest opening is Jailer with Rs 5. 80 crores. Second is Dulquer King Of Kotha with Rs 5 .75 crore. Third biggest opening is Vijay Varisu with Rs 4.80 crore, Fourth place is PS 2 and fifth place is Jawan and sixth place is Dilip Voice of Sathiyanathann and seventh place is SRK Paathan. Eighth place is Mammooty Christopher and ninth place is Ajth Thunivu and tenth place is Mohanlal Alone. Kerala audience coming in big numbers of opening day to see hyped up Tamil and Hindi films and giving Kerala Stars films a lukewarm response shows that Malayalam Producers need to do more promotions and road shows. The film 2018 which entered the Rs 200 crore club and selected for Indian entry at Oscars opened with only Rs 1.80 crore and was only in 6th place in opening numbers and so also RDX. Both picked up after reviews were positive. In contrast Dulquer heavy promotion gave him a stupendous opening but bad reviews slowed down the collections. As trade analysts point out that the high renumeration that a Star demand is that he can bring in an opening that others cannot and this is not happening.

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