Vijay's Mersal has ridden on its star power to open very well in all the major overseas markets. Some of the markets where Mersal has outperformed include Malaysia, UK and Australia.
First day collections of Mersal in these countries are as follows:
UK - 81 lakhs from 37 locations
Australia - 68 lakhs from 25 locations
Malaysia - 90 lakhs
These are some great figures for a Tamil film in overseas markets. Let's hope Mersal continues to keep the momentum going.
Yesterday, the Mersal team was spotted shooting some patch works at an IT park located near Thuraipakkam, Chennai. We were told that a Hospital scene was canned in yesterday's shoot.
Apparently, Vijay has completed his shoot and also dubbing work for the film. He is expected to take part in the 'poosanikai' ceremony which will take during the last day of the shoot.
Meanwhile, AR Rahman along with his Qutub-E-Kriba band has supposedly started work for Mersal's background score. The team is ostensibly thrilled to score the re-recording for a mass film like Mersal.
This news also comes in as a huge relief to Vijay and AR Rahman fans. AR Rahman as we know is extremely passionate with what he does and wouldn't like to compromise for the sake of a deadline. Now that Rahman has a solid 20-30 days time to work on the RR part, we could expect a fascinating final output from 'Isai Puyal'.