Madharaasi Box Office Collection Day 7
Madharaasi wrapped up its 7th day at the box office with an India net collection is estimated by sacnilk ₹2 crore, making its week one total about ₹49 crore give or take a few lakh, because these numbers always seem to wiggle a bit by the final tally. Honestly, it’s not the mammoth success fans might have fantasized about after seeing Sivakarthikeyan’s earlier blockbusters, but there’s something about crawling towards that ₹50 crore mark that feels like reaching the last checkpoint in a tough marathon tired but satisfied.
Was there a buzz in theaters last Thursday? Not really the storm the producers dreamed of, but decent enough for a weekday. The diehard fans showed up, some dragging their friends with promises of “mass scenes,” and the rest trickled in for the evening shows after work. Someone on a movie forum joked that the 16.05% Tamil occupancy was basically all the engineering college boys left in town for Onam holidays.
The Week in Numbers
It’s fun to see how each day stacks up. Dropping some box office figures in a friendly little table because everyone loves a scoreboard, right?
|
Day |
India Net (Cr) |
Change |
|---|---|---|
|
Day 1 |
₹13.65 [Ta: 12, Hi: 0.1, Te: 1.55] |
— |
|
Day 2 |
₹12.10 [Ta: 10.9, Hi: 0.1, Te: 1.1] |
–11.36% |
|
Day 3 |
₹11.40 [Ta: 10.5, Hi: 0.1, Te: 0.8] |
–5.79% |
|
Day 4 |
₹4.15 [Ta: 3.6, Hi: 0.05, Te: 0.5] |
–63.60% |
|
Day 5 |
₹3.20 [Ta: 2.75, Hi: 0.05, Te: 0.4] |
–22.89% |
|
Day 6 |
₹2.50 [Ta: 2.1, Hi: 0.05, Te: 0.35] |
–21.88% |
|
Day 7 |
₹2.00 [Ta: 1.7, Hi: 0.05, Te: 0.25] |
–20.00% |
|
Total |
₹49.00 Cr |
- |
Kind of heartbreaking to watch the sharp slope after Sunday. They say Mondays don’t like movies maybe Mondays are just job interviews for blockbusters.
Showwise Occupancy: “How Crowded Was Your Row?”
Thursday’s Tamil 2D shows saw these numbers:
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Morning: 13.96%
-
Afternoon: 16.71%
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Evening: 15.52%
-
Night: 18%
Maybe aunties picked the night show for the AC break? Most likely, evening and night is when folks finally escape their commute and sneak in a popcorn dinner.
A friend actually texted after catching the afternoon show, griping, “Plenty of empty seats, but all the noisier college kids sat together. Felt like a cricket stadium at a math exam.” Gotta love the local movie-watching rituals we choose the same row every time for ‘luck’.
What’s the Vibe? Flop or Not?
Look, the cold verdict is: Flop by trade standards. The makers hoped for ₹180 crore just to break even. Word of mouth didn’t do the film any extra favors; one critic called it “average content in a blockbuster suit.” But for Sivakarthikeyan, it’s still the 2nd biggest week-one opener post-pandemic, just south of Amaran’s mammoth ₹114.85 crore run.
Still, ₹49 crore is ₹49 crore that’s a number that could buy the entire city’s idli breakfast for a year (don’t try that, though, someone did the math and it’s more like three months if you skip chutney).
The Humans Behind the Numbers
Directed by AR Murugadoss, who survived a few past flops but still swings for the fences, and starring a lively cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Rukmini Vasanth, Vidyut Jammwal, plus a handful of familiar faces like Biju Menon. Their fans turned up and stuck around, even when reviews got lukewarm.
One theater worker in Coimbatore joked, “If you ask me, these guys should promise an action scene every half hour and a free soda at the interval. That’ll fill the balcony again.”
Final Thoughts
Madharaasi’s Day 7 box office collection sits at ₹2 crore, capping a rollercoaster first week at ₹49 crore. It might not be the fairy tale fans hoped for, but every movie gets its shot and some just tell messier, more honest box office stories.
For anyone thinking about catching the next show: go in with friends, park in your favorite row, and don’t forget to bring extra snacks. That’s half the fun, flop or not.
