‘Thug Life’ day 6 box office collection: Kamal Haasan-Mani Ratnam film loses shows, witnesses poor occupancy

Kamal Haasan and Silambarasan T R in ‘Thug Life’.
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Thug Life, starring Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam, is experiencing a disappointing run in theatres. The film, which released in India in 4917 screens, is reported to have lost half its shows in less than seven days.

Reportedly made on a whopping budget of ₹300 crore, the movie witnessed just a 17 per cent occupancy across Tamil, Hindi and Telugu versions on the sixth day of its release. The pan-Indian film currently has 2089 shows in India.

On the sixth day of its theatrical run, Thug Life collected a nett of ₹1.75 crore in India. The film, co-produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International and Mani Ratnam’s Madras Talkies, has earned ₹41 crore in the country. The Hindi film Housefull 5, another big release of last week, has overshadowed Thug Life by collecting ₹10.75 crore on Tuesday, taking its overall box office number to more than ₹100 crore within four days.

For Kamal Haasan, who co-produced Thug Life under his banner Raaj Kamal Films International, the movie’s poor show comes on the back of the disastrous performance of Indian 2, directed by S Shankar. Mani Ratnam, on the other hand, had a delivered a humungous hit with his Ponniyin Selvan films, before Thug Life.

Also starting Silambarasan TR, Trisha,  Ashok Selvan, Joju George and Nasser, the Thug Life has music from A R Rahman and cinematography from Ravi K Chandran. Sreekar Prasad has done the editing for the movie.

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The Hindu review of the movie said, “It doesn’t help that the film fails to add more to its archaic fight-for-the-throne conflict at the centre of the film. Subplots and layers seem added purely for convenience, like a character that returns in the climax to serve a meagre purpose.

Despite a master filmmaker at the helm, all the star power in its arsenal and the right ingredients to make a heady modern gangster drama, it makes you grope in the dark for its beating heart.”