Coolie box office collection day 1 early report: Rajinikanth film likely to cross Rs 100 crore mark worldwide

However, Coolie’s numbers are promising as it has released alongside Bollywood actioner War 2. The sequel of War, starring Hrithik Roshan, Jr NTR and Kiara Advani in pivotal roles, has earned Rs 35.97 crore as of 8 pm.

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Rajinikanth’s Coolie recorded an overall occupancy of 84.55% in Tamil, with large crowds turning up for the first-day-first-show and continuing into the afternoon screenings. Around 3,300 Tamil shows were scheduled across India. The Hindi version, released on about 1,200 screens, registered an overall occupancy of 29.16%. The Telugu version performed strongly, with an impressive 91.09% occupancy across 1,100 shows.

An expert from SCREEN’s review of Coolie read, “Coolie has interesting ideas like any Lokesh Kanagaraj film, and you get charming supporting performances, especially Nagarjuna and Soubin Shahir, who get the most screen time after Rajnikanth. These two revel in the sinister actions of the characters, but they play mere archetypal villains, who get to slash people endlessly on screen and look cool doing it. The film tries to co-opt the successful ‘bread crumbs’ narrative of Vikram, Lokesh’s best work to date, which follows the death of the character and the ensuing chaos set forth by the slow unraveling of what is really going on under all the lies and hidden truths. Coolie misses the emotional grounding and levity provided by Fahad Faasil in Vikram. Instead, Lokesh unevenly tries to build up similar scenes of suspense and light-hearted banter with middling results.”

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