Beast Hits A Century At The Box Office (Pic Credit: Movie Still)
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Thalapathy Vijay’s highly anticipated Beast could have been a celebration for his fans, but the film is underperforming a big time. Nonetheless, it has crossed 100 crores at the Indian box office and it’s something positive for fans to talk about.
Vijay’s dark comedy thriller avoided a direct clash with KGF Chapter 2 by arriving a day earlier, but the move didn’t help as mixed word-of-mouth affected the film right from day 1. Things just turned worse after KGF 2 arrived and the film is falling like ninepins.
Now speaking about the latest box office update, Beast made 14 crores* on its day 4 (Saturday), taking the grand total to 100.30 crores* (all languages). While there’s a lot of negativity in the air, hitting a century is something to cheer for. Today, the film will see some sort of holiday benefit but from tomorrow onwards, collections are expected to see a drastic fall.
Meanwhile, MMK President M.H. Jawahirullah recently urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin to ban Beast as it demeans the Muslim community as a whole.
Citing the ban on the movie in Kuwait and Qatar, Jawahirullah said the Muslim community braving the natural calamity and the Covid-19 pandemic had rendered yeoman service to the community, but Beast demeans them and has the possibility of creating a law and order situation in the state.
According to him, movies like “Viswaroopam”, and “Thupakki” had demeaned the Muslim community, and after a lull in the production of such movies, now Vijay’s latest release has given life to such a movie genre. (via IANS)
