The Tamil film BEAST took a beating on Monday as it collected around 3 crore nett in Tamil Nadu. The film had started with a 27 crore nett opening day on Wednesday but is now practically down and out. This is not really surprisingly as a similar thing had happened to a similar film VALIMAI two months back.

The six day collections of BEAST in Tamil Nadu are 68 crore nett and the 100 it needs to cover is probably a dream. VALIMAI did a little under 85 crore nett and that is probably going to be the target for this film but BEAST has a higher market value by around 5%.

The Hindi version of the film RAW collected just 10-12 lakhs nett on Monday and will be practically out by the end of the week with final collections to be short of 2.50 crore nett. The all India collections of BEAST will probably be under 4 crore nett on Monday and 96 crore nett in six days.

KGF - CHAPTER 2 held up strongly on Monday as collections look similar to Friday in the 5 crore nett range but this is probably because BEAST was strong competition on Friday and now the tables have changed.

RAW (Hindi) was a total wash out as it collected around 1.75 crore nett over five days and around 65 lakhs of that came on the first day. The figures were so bad that it started to lose screens from the second day itself. KGF - CHAPTER 2 might have set the box office on fire but RAW is the more general result for a dubbed South film that is run of the mill.

The original film of RAW is BEAST coming from Tamil film industry and features one of the biggest stars of that state if not the biggest Vijay Joseph. This guy also had another release in Hindi last year named MASTER which did better to put up around 4 crore nett in its run. It got a better release as it was a time when no other films were releasing but the box-office was also in a poor state. 

The original Tamil film BEAST has done well in Tamil Nadu with collections in the 65 crore nett range over the first five days while other areas in South are so so and with around 25 crore nett came from the rest of the South and then if you add Hindi its a 92 crore nett apprx total for the film. 

The film is basically about Tamil Nadu and needs 100 crore plus to cover but it will be hard going by the results of the previous few Tamil biggies which hardly added after the opening weekends and they also had extended weekends. KGF - CHAPTER 2 will also prove to be competition in the state as it is running on high occupancy although on lower collections than BEAST. KGF - CHAPTER 2 collected 5.82 crore nett on day one in Tamil Nadu. The four day numbers will probably be around 22-23 crore nett.

RRR (Hindi) has held supremely well on its fourth Friday with collections again in the 3 crore nett range which means the last three days have seen the same collection. It will now become the highest grossing film of the year in a day or two but as mentioned before, the juggernaut KGF - CHAPTER 2 will overtake it in no time. RRR (Hindi) will no probably finish somewhere in the 260-270 crore nett range. KGF - CHAPTER 2 has hardly affected this film though the holiday factor over the last two days has helped.

The other South film is the Tamil Film BEAST (RAW in Hindi) and its actually not worth a mention but with negativity for the Hindi film industry as some South films do phenomenally well, there are many that fall flat on their face like this film. Its been three days and the film is still to hit 1 crore nett in Hindi. These things don't get pointed out as a certain picture need to be painted.

The original Tamil film has seen a further drop in Tamil Nadu also as Friday collects around 9-10 crore nett and a further 30% drop after a 45% drop on day two. It has collected 50 crore nett apprx in Tamil Nadu in three days.

The Tamil film BEAST did fair business on day two in Tamil Nadu as it collected around 16-17 crore nett to take its two day total to around 43 crore nett. There is a 40% drop on the second day but still the numbers are pretty good. The issue is it wont be going anywhere in the long run like most of these big Tamil films recently. 

KGF - CHAPTER 2 which is second best to BEAST in Tamil Nadu in terms of collections was doing better occupancy in many centres. So it will eventually prove competition for BEAST and take shows which means further drops are on the cards.

The film also had a Hindi version called RAW which was a pointless exercise but in the South they all probably believe this so called pan India story and all want to be a part of it. So, you get these sort of films releasing in Hindi also which look very bad from the trailer itself and collections reflect that. The second day collections of the film are 15-20 lakhs nett taking its two day numbers to around 75-80 lakhs nett. The huge drop is due to the release of KGF - CHAPTER 2 but even if it did not come you take a 40-50% drop instead of a 70-80% drop..

Like VALIMAI, this film also had these huge inflated 38 and 40 crore numbers doing the rounds and as the film releases in a Hindi many people in the industry also get these numbers and despite most take them for what they are, there is still some doubt it can be true. Its weird these numbers don't even come from the producers but its just fanboys or some nuisance factors and its been happening since ages. Still in todays age of social media they reach the industry.

The Tamil film BEAST has seen a record opening of around 27 crore nett in Tamil Nadu edging past the figure put up by VALIMAI a month or so back. The Hindi version of the film which is named RAW is a dud with collections somewhere in the 50 lakh range. Another film attempting to be a so called pan India film bites the dust. Although this is probably not right to say so early but with KGF - CHAPTER 2 released today, there is little hope.

The collections of the film are good to very good in other areas of South but it will be mainly about Tamil Nadu due to KGF - CHAPTER 2. Despite these huge openings, its never easy for these Tamil films as it has been seen by films like VALIMAI and ANNAATTHE which opened to huge numbers but could not go anywhere after the weekend. It remains to be seen if BEAST can do any better.

The last big film to become a BLOCKBSUTER in Tamil Nadu was VISWASAM released in 2019 and it remains the highest grossing Tamil film in Tamil Nadu behind BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION but that was a film from the Telugu film industry. VISWASAM released with a Rajinikanth film PETTA which itself had good numbers. So the potential is there for big numbers but the films post VISWASAM have not been able to sustain well. 

BEAST features Vijay Joseph who is probably the biggest star in Tamil Nadu and so the record opening was probably expected and his other films have also put up huge opening numbers. The film needs around 100 crore from Tamil Nadu and it remains to be see how it fares over the next few days and there are very few Tamil films which have reached 100 crore nett in Tamil Nadu.