One of Tamil Cinema’s highly celebrated actors, Vijay’s recent films have been especially a Box Office blessing to uplift the ongoing trend of box office race in India. His Box Office Game and style has always been one to watch out for across languages.
The diversity between North and South Indian Cinema Industries has been prosperous and fruitful. While the base of it remains the same, the recent obsession around how much does a movie make in the Box Office Collection repents the audience’s focus from the story and directly into a Collection race that is booming. With several movie breaking and achieving himalayan records in Box Office Collection, the Tamil Industry maintained a decent set of Box Office hits in the past 5 to 7 years.
This has been mainly due to the big star movies combining with fresh collaborators and opening under big banner Productions. The said big stars list of Tamil cinema is dominated by one actor whose journey and accomplishments kept growing at a massive pace. Celebrated as ‘Thalapathy’, Actor Vijay has single handedly contributed majorly to the Box Office Collection records. Eventually to the wholesome picture of Tamil Cinema in the financial race. Here’s how he outgrown his competitors in terms of Box Office Assurity in recent years.
Vijay’s Bumpy Beginnings to Seamless Stardom
It is not a mystery to navigate but a factual growth of Vijay as an actor first to a star. This also is laid out over several decades of hurdles and growths. Hailing from a familiar film family, Vijay was introduced as a child actor in the 1984 film ‘Vetri’ and followed through in some of his father’s successful movies. Following this Vijay starred in ‘Naalaiya Theerpu’, his first hero as lead, directed by his father S A Chandrasekhar.
Although his launch was successful, many of his earliest movies were criticized mostly based on his appearance. Nearing the beginning of the millennium, Vijay’s movies were hits, and his personality as an actor who can work on commercial films that are in sync with the newer generations. Post 2010, Vijay’s movies turned out to be financially reliable with movies like ‘Kavalan’, ‘Nanban’, ‘Thuppakki’ attaining blockbuster statuses also bagging decent box office collections, placing him in the financial competition.
Commercial Movies for Masses
The reason why Vijay’s movies especially his commercial ones are that apart from appealing to the masses is because of Vijay’s ability to lace humour despite having a separate comedian or a comedy track. His body language and modulations when it comes to humour, dance numbers and the dialogue delivery. His movies also include some of the most amazing choreographies that are obviously appealing to the kids while his dialogue delivery and humour.
Commercial films threaded with social message was a power move for Vijay as his fans just like any other star’s were hyping his Political entry, these movies were an even better traction, projecting Vijay as a conscious actor in terms of script selection and how his films are not perceived under different veils. His movie’s suddenly got involved in many conversations across vocations and everything was suspected to be interlaced with political innuendos, that again was a massive crowd puller as fans and general audience were keen on knowing any such insinuation.
This also became his unique selling point for audiences who wanted entertainment that involved action, comedy and grand celebration that came along with every movie release of Vijay’s. These factors built up to bag guaranteed 200 Crores in Box Office for the past 5 years – Bigil, Master, Beast, Leo, Varisu, GOAT all garnering to the commercial audience and collecting huge thus resulting in the cumulative growth in Tamil Cinema’s Box Office Collection. The massive collection especially for a Vijay movie is also because of his influence in other South Indian states as next to Tamil Nadu, Kerala fans have segregated a huge part in this collection. Every year for the past 5 years, Vijay’s movies have collected a minimum of 200 Crores and have contributed over 10% of the whole collection of Tamil Cinema and averaging around 24% in the last 5 years. This towering reputation makes Vijay a crowd puller for directors and a cash cow for producers who are ready to hire him as their lead despite his salary around 275 Crores reported for his upcoming release ‘Thalapathy 69’.
Every year there are certain Most Anticipated movies that fans are eager to watch and celebrate in the big screens that also in hindsight has the fan war tendencies and places two star’s projects go head to head. Apart from hero worship, the fan wars also extend to Box Office Collections and the number of days a star’s movie runs in theatres, dethroning their competitors’. Vijay’s films just like the 2024 release ‘GOAT’ shaped the other movie releases for the whole year as such a massive crowd pullers cannot go or overlap other smaller or small budget films, regardless of the actors’ stature.
The way Vijay’s walk away from Tamil cinema was abrupt and sudden for his fans and audience to stomach, this will surely leave a dent on the pristine Box Office Collection of Kollywood. On the sunnier side, his departure can either slow down the fan war culture and settle several debates over the Title game or create a solid space for deserving up and coming actors. Either way, Vijay’s absence will be louder than his presence that will be seen after his penultimate movie.
