‘Thug Life’, directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan, was launched in theaters with excessive expectations. The filmmaker’s signature was marketed as a high-octane motion thriller, and the movie introduced a troop of stellar artists together with Silambarson, Trisha, Joju George, and extra. AR Rahman’s huge rating and the putting visuals of Ravi Okay Chandran raised important expectations for the motion drama. Though the critiques have been combined, some welcomed the grand imaginative and prescient of the movie and the magnetic display screen look of Kamal Haasan, whereas others discovered the story dissatisfying and emotionally not related.A blockbuster begin on opening dayThe movie opened to a roaring ₹15.5 crore on Day 1 throughout languages, largely pushed by the Tamil model which earned ₹13.35 crore as per Sacnilk. Whereas this marked one of many strongest openings for a Kamal Haasan movie lately, the drop on subsequent days was steep. Friday noticed a fall of over 50% to ₹7.15 crore, adopted by a slight restoration on Saturday with ₹7.75 crore and ₹6.5 crore on Sunday. The whole assortment for the weekend got here near ₹37 crore, exhibiting early indicators of pressure regardless of a promising begin.Weekday wrestle continues‘Thug Life’ couldn’t preserve its weekend tempo throughout the weekdays. Monday’s assortment turned ₹2.3 crore, after which ₹1.8 crore on Tuesday. On Wednesday and Thursday, ₹1.22 crore and ₹1.21 crore have been recorded respectively, which raised the overall assortment to ₹43.43 crore. On day 9 (Second Friday), the movie collected solely ₹ 0.16 crore, which was a cumulative complete of ₹43.52 crore. The declining occupancy with Tamil reveals only a 12% common on Friday, suggesting that the movie could also be near the tip of its dramatic run.Aiming for legacy over numbersWhereas ‘Thug Life’ could not have maintained its early field workplace guarantees, the movie remains to be standing as a daring experiment in mainstream Tamil cinema.