Rajinikanth's first movie this year released on the 9th of January to a great response. Directed by AR Murugadoss, who collaborates with the Superstar for the first time, the movie is titled Darbar. In this action flick, Nayanthara featured as the leading lady. The movie is bankrolled by Lyca Productions.
The movie's cast was as grand as the movie, which included Nivetha Thomas, Suniel Shetty, Yogi Babu, Thambi Ramaiya, Sriman, Prateik Babbar, Jatin Sarna, Nawab Shah, Dalip Tahil amongst others, while Anirudh has composed the music for the film.
Darbar released on the 9th of January and the film has been making a mammoth of collections at the Box Office since day one. Darbar has completed 11 days of its run yesterday and the film has collected around 13 crores and 37 lakhs at the Chennai City alone, at the end of its second weekend. Massive right?
Thalaivar's last Pongal release 'Petta' by Karthik Subbaraj collected around 11 crores and 73 lakhs by its second weekend, with Thala Ajith's Viswasam releasing along with it. The Superstar's techno fiesta's sequel 2.0 that released in November 2018, collected around 18 crores and 20 lakhs by its second weekend, and it remains the recent highest-grossing film of Thalaivar at the Chennai City as of now.
It must be noted that the collections are tracked and analyzed independently by Behindwoods Box Office Wing and that the collections are not given to us by the theatre owners, producers or distributors. Check out the Box Office report of last week in the link here: https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/chhapaak/chhapaak-box-office-jan-19.html