{"id":133974,"date":"2025-09-10T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:59:12","slug":"sivakarthikeyan-says-tamil-cinema-doesnt-have-%e2%82%b91000-crore-films-due-to-this-jailer-wouldve-crossed-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133974\/","title":{"rendered":"Sivakarthikeyan says Tamil cinema doesn’t have \u20b91000 crore films due to this: \u2018Jailer would’ve crossed otherwise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Tamil film industry has delivered massive successes like Shankar\u2019s 2.0, Nelson Dilipkumar\u2019s Jailer, Lokesh Kanagaraj\u2019s Leo and Vikram, and more. And yet, the thorn on their side is that the \u20b91000 crore mark remains elusive to them, unlike the Telugu and Kannada film industries. In an interview<\/a> with Cinema Express while promoting his recent release Madharaasi, Sivakarthikeyan <\/a>listed out reasons why he believes Kollywood hasn\u2019t achieved that yet.<\/p>\n

\u20b91000 crore at the box office if not for capped ticket prices.” title=”Sivakarthikeyan believes Rajinikanth could’ve made \u20b91000 crore at the box office if not for capped ticket prices.” \/> \"Sivakarthikeyan\u20b91000 crore at the box office if not for capped ticket prices.” title=”Sivakarthikeyan believes Rajinikanth could’ve made \u20b91000 crore at the box office if not for capped ticket prices.” \/> Sivakarthikeyan believes Rajinikanth could’ve made \u20b91000 crore at the box office if not for capped ticket prices. Sivakarthikeyan on the elusive \u20b91000 crore for Kollywood<\/p>\n

Sivakarthikeyan\u2019s 2024 biopic film Amaran was a massive success, but that film, too, collected \u20b9333 crore worldwide. When asked about it, the actor reasoned, \u201cLike I said before, we did not think about the number Amaran would make while working on it. You cannot make a film like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then explained why Kollywood hasn\u2019t produced a \u20b91000 crore film yet: \u201cApart from the quality of a film, there are other factors to consider, such as ticket pricing. I am not in favour of increasing the ticket prices, but if we charged as much as in Bengaluru or Mumbai, then Jailer would have easily crossed \u20b9800 crores, if not \u20b91000 crores.\u201d The Rajinikanth <\/a>film had collected \u20b9604 crore worldwide.<\/p>\n

Sivakarthikeyan also mentioned in the interview that he believes Tamil films need stronger penetration in the North Indian market to achieve these numbers. He claimed that the four-week deals they sign with OTT platforms hinder distributors in the North, as they prefer films with eight-week windows. However, he remained optimistic that the number would be achieved soon.<\/p>\n

AR Murugadoss says you cannot write films keeping \u20b91000 crore in mind<\/p>\n

Ahead of Madharaasi\u2019s release, the director of the film, AR Murugadoss, also spoke to<\/a> Sudhir Srinivasan on the topic. He mentioned how the film industry had a phase where they would look for films completing 100-150 days in theatres, and now it\u2019s all about how much it makes at the box office and where it ranks compared to other films.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot write thinking this film must make \u20b91000 crore, that is not the way to do it. Holding the audience\u2019s interest is the only thing you must focus on. Those \u20b91000 crore will be an achievement if that works. But is it correct to have numbers as your target? It must be all about the presentation and storytelling,\u201d said Murugadoss<\/a>, adding, \u201cWhen I made Ghajini, I just knew I wanted it to reach audiences in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, and nothing more. My main goal was to generate that interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madharaasi released in theatres on 5 September and collected \u20b968.75 crore worldwide in four days of release.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tamil film industry has delivered massive successes like Shankar\u2019s 2.0, Nelson Dilipkumar\u2019s Jailer, Lokesh Kanagaraj\u2019s Leo and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,73020,337,41642,73019,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-133974","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-entertainment","11":"tag-madharaasi","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-rajinikanth","14":"tag-sivakarthikeyan","15":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133974","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=133974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}