The big box office battle in Tamil cinema has gone the way of VARISU as it goes ahead of the competition THUNIVU over the holiday period in Tamil Nadu. VARISU was grossing around 1 crore more than THUNIVU over the last few days despite being 2 crore less on day one.

The other markets have seen a comfortable lead for VARISU though in Hindi markets, there is no dubbed version of THUNIVU but the original Tamil film is still around 50 lakhs behind. The best performance is no doubt in Nizam/Andhra where the film has done excellent business over three days and that is despite competition from huge original Telugu films.

The big holiday period is now over in Tamil Nadu and the collections will come down but both have done very well till now in the home market. The all India collections for the first seven days are 80 crore nett apprx for THUNIVU and 108 crore nett for VARISU.

Below is the territory numbers for Thuniva and Varisu..

Tamil Nadu - 65,00,00,000

Nizam/Andhra - 3,00,00,000

Mysore/Karnataka - 7,75,00,000

Kerala - 3,50,00,000

Hindi Circuits - 1,00,00,000

Tamil Nadu - 68,50,00,000

Nizam/Andhra - 15,00,00,000

Mysore/Karnataka - 9,25,00,000

Kerala - 8,50,00,000

Hindi Circuits -  6,75,00,000 (including Tamil version)