{"id":133717,"date":"2025-09-10T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:29:09","slug":"kalyani-priyadarshan-becomes-1st-malayalam-actress-to-make-%e2%82%b9200-crore-at-the-box-office-with-lokah-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133717\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalyani Priyadarshan becomes 1st Malayalam actress to make \u20b9200 crore at the box office with Lokah Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actor Kalyani Priyadarshan<\/a> has been choosy about her work since her debut in the 2017 Telugu Akhil Akkineni-starrer Hello. It looks like her patience has paid off because with Dominic Arun\u2019s Lokah Chapter 1 \u2013 Chandra, she didn\u2019t just become India\u2019s first female superhero, she also became the first female actor in Malayalam to have made \u20b9200 crore at the box office, joining the big leagues.<\/p>\n

\"Kalyani Kalyani Priyadarshan plays India’s first female superhero in Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra. Lokah: Chapter 1 \u2013 Chandra makes \u20b9200 crore<\/p>\n

Malayalam cinema has cracked the \u20b9200 crore mark very recently with the successes of Mohanlal\u2019s L2 Empuraan ( \u20b9265.5 crore) and Thudarum ( \u20b9234.5 crore) this year, apart from Soubin Shahir and Sreenath Bhasi\u2019s Manjummel Boys ( \u20b9240.5 crore) in 2024. And now, Lokah has joined the big leagues by collecting \u20b9202 crore worldwide in 13 days of release. While female-led films themselves are few and far between in Malayalam, for Lokah to make such numbers is no mean feat.<\/p>\n

Recently, when Lokah crossed the \u20b9100 crore mark, actor Dulquer Salmaan, who produced it under Warfarer Films, credited actor-writer Santhy Balachandran<\/a> for writing an effective lead character, saying, \u201cWe are always told that we write and approach our cinema with the male gaze. I don\u2019t even want to say female\u2026if there\u2019s a lady superhero or superstar today and we represented her correctly, all credit to Santhy B.\u201d His production house confirmed the news of the film hitting \u20b9202 crore on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Kalyani Priyadarshan reacts to the milestone<\/p>\n

Kalyani posted the news of Lokah making \u20b9202 crore worldwide with some behind-the-scenes pictures, writing, \u201cYesterday, our film reached a number that was only possible because of you, the audience. I\u2019m beyond speechless, and truly beyond grateful for the love being showered on this film. In our industry, content has always been king, the biggest star of all – and once again, you\u2019ve proved that to us. Thank you for giving us the chance to show that stories with vision will always find their place with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also credited Dominic for the success and added, \u201cAnd @dominic_arun (our Dom)\u2026 thank you for giving us a vision we could believe in with our whole hearts. You\u2019re the reason we were all so excited to give everything we had – and it\u2019s safe to say none of this would have been possible without you. To the most amazing cast and crew\u2026this win feels special for me only because I have you guys to share it with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lokah, which was released in theatres on 28 August, stars Kalyani, Naslen and Sandy, alongside Arun Kurian, Chandu Salimkumar, Nishanth Sagar, Raghunath Paleri, Vijayaraghavan, Nithya Shri, and Sarath Sabha. Dulquer, Tovino Thomas, Soubin, Anna Ben and others featured in special cameos <\/a>while Mammootty voiced an important character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Kalyani Priyadarshan has been choosy about her work since her debut in the 2017 Telugu Akhil Akkineni-starrer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,72798,66611,75,64049,70694,337,72797],"class_list":{"0":"post-133717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dominic-arun","11":"tag-dulquer-salmaan","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kalyani-priyadarshan","14":"tag-lokah-chapter-1","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-naslen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}