Parasakthi box office collection day 2: Sivakarthikeyan’s film benefits from stay on Vijay’s Jana Nayagan, earns over Rs 22 cr in two days

Parasakthi box office collection day 2: Sreelala and Sivakarthikeyan's film earns over Rs 22 crore in two days.

Sudha Kongara’s period political action drama Parasakthi, starring Sivakarthikeyan and Sreelala in the lead roles, has benefitted from being the sole solo major Tamil release in the vicinity of the festive occasion of Pongal. H Vinoth’s action drama Jana Nayagan, which was Thalapathy Vijay’s much-awaited swansong before his political plunge, couldn’t make it to theatres due to troubles with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and a subsequent case in Madras High Court.

On Sunday (day 2), Parasakthi earned Rs 10.15 crore, a slight dip from its opening day collection of Rs 12.50 crore on Saturday at the domestic box office collection. While the dip on Sunday isn’t a great sign, one would imagine these figures to be far lower, given the competition from Jana Nayagan had it released on schedule.

As per Sacnilk, the current box office collection of Parasakthi after two days at the domestic box office stands at Rs 22.65 crore. This is lower than that of Sivakarthikeyan’s last release, AR Murugadoss’ psychological action thriller Madhraasi, last year. Although that film marginally benefitted from also releasing in dubbed Hindi and Tamil versions, it eventually turned out to be a commercial failure.

The two-day domestic box office collection collection of Parasakthi is less than half of what Sivakarthikeyan’s film amassed with Rajkumar Periasamy’s 2024 period war drama Amaran, which earned Rs 46.65 crore. Kongara’s film is Sivakarthikeyan’s lowest opening in two years, after R Ravikumar’s 2024 sci-fi action comedy Ayalaan, which earned only Rs 9.6 crore in its first two days at the domestic box office.

Parasakthi may not have directly competed with Jana Nayagan, but the latter’s last-minute delay announcement seems to have affected its momentum as well. Despite his best efforts to avert a clash with Vijay’s last film, Sivakarthikeyan had to release his new film around the same time, thanks to the lucrative occasion of Pongal.

However, he’d unconventionally chosen to release Parasakthi on a Saturday, a day after Jana Nayagan was scheduled to release on Friday. That was a strategic move so that the distributors could position both the Tamil releases optimally. With the postponement in the release of Vijay’s film, that costed Sivakarthikeyan another day at the box office.

However, it couldn’t have released on Friday in place of Jana Nayagan because Parasakthi had a run-in with the CBFC of its own. It was only after the makers accepted the 25 cuts suggested by the CBFC that the film got a certification clearance late on Friday, allowing it to release as per schedule on Saturday.

Despite no major competition from Tamil releases, Parasakthi still had to contend with the release of Maruthi’s Telugu horror comedy The Raja Saab. The Prabhas-starrer amassed Rs 46.24 crore on Saturday and Sunday combined, but with its dubbed Tamil version earning only Rs 30 lakh. Since there’s still no clarity on the release date of Jana Nayagan, Parasakthi has another week to capitalize on the market, with the festival of Pongal also only a couple of days away.