{"id":17108,"date":"2025-09-15T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:52:07","slug":"dulquer-salmaans-lokah-chapter-1-chandra-all-set-to-become-2nd-biggest-hit-of-malayalam-cinema-after-breaching-mohanlals-l2-empuraans-third-spot-malayalam-movi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17108\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulquer Salmaan\u2019s \u2018Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra\u2019 all set to become 2nd biggest hit of Malayalam Cinema after breaching Mohanlal\u2019s L2: Empuraan&#8217;s third spot | Malayalam Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/123893141.jpg\" alt=\"Dulquer Salmaan\u2019s \u2018Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra\u2019 all set to become 2nd biggest hit of Malayalam Cinema after breaching Mohanlal\u2019s L2: Empuraan's third spot\" title=\"Dulquer Salmaan's production, 'Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra,' directed by Dominic Arun, is a box office success, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan and Naslen. Earning \u20b9119.58 crore in 18 days, it surpassed 'L2: Empyrean.' 'Lokah' now challenges 'Thaduram' (\u20b9122 crore) and eyes 'Manjummel Boys' (\u20b9142.05 crore). The Malayalam version leads with \u20b993.47 crore, followed by Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Dulquer Salmaan&#8217;s production, &#8216;Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra,&#8217; directed by Dominic Arun, is a box office success, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan and Naslen. Earning \u20b9119.58 crore in 18 days, it surpassed &#8216;L2: Empyrean.&#8217; &#8216;Lokah&#8217; now challenges &#8216;Thaduram&#8217; (\u20b9122 crore) and eyes &#8216;Manjummel Boys&#8217; (\u20b9142.05 crore). The Malayalam version leads with \u20b993.47 crore, followed by Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi. <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dulquer-salmaan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dulquer Salmaan<\/a> has not only cemented his palace as one of the ost exciting names of Indian Cinema as an actor but now as a producer he\u2019s backed a winner at the box office with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dominic-arun\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Arun<\/a>\u2019s Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kalyani-priyadarshan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kalyani Priyadarshan<\/a> and Naslen. The film in just 18 days has minted Rs 119.58 crore at the box office, going past <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mohanlal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohanlal<\/a> and Prithiviraj\u2019s magnum opus L2: Empyrean which had collected Rs 106.77 crore at the box office. Lokah is now all set to challenge another Mohanlal money spinner Thaduram which has collected Rs 122 crore at the box office. The film was released in Malayalam and as the days passed and its word of mouth grew, it was released in other languages. If one looks at the breakdown till now, the Malayalam version has contributed Rs 93.47 crore to the total tally, with Telugu version contributing Rs 13.06, Tamil Rs 10.45 crore and Hindi at Rs 2.6 crore as per Sacnilk.Over its third weekend the film collected Rs 4.05 crore on Friday, Rs 6.65 crore on Saturday and Rs 6.85 crore as per early estimates by Sacnilk. Going by the trend the film will move past Thudarum\u2019s collection fo Rs 122 crore by end of the day or by tomorrow night. After that the film will be in direct competition with the biggest Malayalam film Manjummel Boys which has collected Rs 142.05 crore from it\u2019s lifetime run. Though how the collections dropping over previous weekends, the climb to the number one spot is going to be an uphill task. Lokah is the part of the 5 part series actor-producer Dulquer Salmaan has put together to form the first \u2018Universe\u2019 of Malayalam Cinema. With the next part being led by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tovino-thomas\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tovino Thomas<\/a> which made brief appearance in the first part. It will be followed by Dulquer Salmaan in the lead and fourth one would be <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mammootty\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mammootty<\/a> in the lead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dulquer Salmaan&#8217;s production, &#8216;Lokah: Chapter 1-Chandra,&#8217; directed by Dominic Arun, is a box office success, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,8455,158,146,85,46,155,16410,466,16776,5681,16777,16775,15886],"class_list":{"0":"post-17108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dominic-arun","10":"tag-dulquer-salmaan","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-kalyani-priyadarshan","15":"tag-lokah-chapter-1-chandra","16":"tag-mammootty","17":"tag-manjummel-boys","18":"tag-mohanlal","19":"tag-prithiviraj","20":"tag-thudarum","21":"tag-tovino-thomas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}