Scene box office collection day 1: Suriya film beats his Karuppu, Vishwanath & Sons opening; brings in over

Malayalam filmmaker Jithu Madhavan’s Tamil debut film, Scene, was released in theatres on Friday ahead of Diwali. The film starringSuriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen opened to mostly positive reviews and performed well at the box office. It opened better than Suriya’s hits this year, Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons, bringing in over ₹19 crore. However, the film did not beat the openings of Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 and Vijay’s Jana Nayagan.

(Also Read: Scene movie review: Jithu Madhavan ably follows up Aavesham with another unserious yet hero-esque film for Suriya)

Scene box office collection

Scene collected ₹19.15 crore net in India on its opening day, making most of it from the Tamil version over Telugu. According to the trade website Sacnilk, it brought in ₹16.15 crore from the Tamil version alone, with the dubbed version collecting ₹3 crore. The film has also performed well overseas, collecting ₹12 crore. Given that Scene was released in theatres during the Diwali season and it now has the first weekend to look forward to, it remains to be seen if it performs as well as expected.

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Suriya has now beaten the openings of his other hits this year,Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons. The actor just might score a hat-trick with his latest release now. RJ Balaji’s Karuppu, which was released in May this year, collected ₹15.50 crore on its opening day. It brought in ₹13.10 crore from Tamil and ₹2.40 crore from Telugu. Vishwanath & Sons had an opening of ₹15.35 crore in August, bringing in ₹9.15 crore in Tamil and ₹6.20 crore in Telugu. However, Jailer 2 and Jana Nayagan still hold the top spots this year with collections of ₹59.70 crore and ₹42.70 crore, respectively.

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Karuppu became Suriya’s highest-grosser and brought in ₹310.12 crore in its lifetime, whileVishwanath & Sons collected ₹209.46 crore. It remains to be seen whether Scene can beat those collections.

About Scene

Scene is written and directed byJithu Madhavan, and produced by Suriya and Jyothika’s 2D <a href="https://comicvibe.com/inside-directvs-unscripted-party-with-people-and-entertainment-weekly/” title=”Inside DirecTV’s Unscripted party with PEOPLE and “Entertainment Weekly””>Entertainment and the newly established Zhagaram Studios. Anandaraj, Lal, Rajpriyan, Suresh Mathiyalagan and Gajaraj also star in it. The film also features cameos by a Mollywood and a Kollywood actor. It features music by Sushin Shyam. Scene tells the story of a cop who is forced to take a second look at a solved case and go after a contract killer when his secret is unwittingly exposed. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game with a twist.

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