Viduthalai Part 2 box office collection day 3: Vetrimaaran-Vijay Sethupathi film enters top 10 opening grossers list

This is testament to the success of both Vetrimaaran and Viduthalai Part 1. Incidentally, the first part made Rs 20.65 crore in the first week of its release. Viduthalai Part 2 has surpassed that number within three days of its run. This number has also helped the film zoom into the Top 10 list of Tamil films with the best opening weekend numbers. Viduthalai 2 joins the list, which includes films like GOAT, Vettaiyan, Amaran, Indian 2, Raayan, Kanguva, Pushpa 2, Thangalaan, and Captain Miller.

Incidentally, this is also the best opening for a Vijay Sethupathi film this year as his Maharaja made Rs 22.28 crore (including Rs 5.15 crore for the Telugu version).

As always, it is the first Monday that would determine the trends of the Viduthalai 2 collections over the week. The Christmas holidays might act as a much-needed shot-in-the-arm for the makers. But interestingly, Maharaja, which might have had a slightly lower opening than Viduthalai 2 went on to beat the collections of films like Indian 2 and Ayalaan because of its consistency over the week. It will be interesting to see if Viduthalai 2 follows suit, and becomes a memorable year for Vijay Sethupathi, whose 2024 started with the Hindi-Tamil bilingual, Merry Christmas, directed by Sriram Raghavan. It will also be an important year for Soori, whose Garudan is presently in the list of top 10 Tamil grossers of 2024. It would be bittersweet if Viduthalai 2 edges out Garudan from this list at the end of its run. But for now, all eyes are on the Monday numbers of the film, which has cinematography by Velraj, and music by Ilaiyaraaja.

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With both parts of Viduthalai finally complete and out in the theatres, it is expected that Vetrimaaran will finally get started on his much-hyped Suriya-starer, Vaadivaasal. With Suriya having wrapped up the Karthik Subbaraj film, and currently working on a RJ Balaji project, the actor might get on with Vaadivaasal after the completion of Suriya 44 and Suriya 45.