Vishnu Manchu's Kannappa Shines with Rs 9 Crore Opening

Vishnu Manchu mythological epic Kannappa rocked the theatres all over India on June 27 and received overwhelming response to become the leading film of the Indian box office with first day collection of incredible Rs 9 crore nett. Under the leadership of Mukesh Kumar Singh, the movie did better than Kajol horror drama Maa (Rs 4.5 crore) or Brad Pitt F1 (Rs 5 crore) and it was a world beating film in the debut of a pan-India spectacle.

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The Telugu language version was the first mover with a powerful 55.89 percentage occupancy rating, the film was raked by the Telugu,region followed by Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam variants which also helped to make the movie successful. Produced in more than 2,000 screens, Kannappa received good critics because of its religious story line and star lead cast with Prabhas in a lead roll as Rudra, Akshay Kumar as Lord shiva, Mohanlal as Kirata and Kajal Aggarwal as goddess Parvati. Enhanced as it was with the contributory roles played by Mohan Babu, R. Sarathkumar and Preity Mukhundhan.

This movie was based on the story of Bhakta Kannappa, a hunter who became a devotee of Lord Shiva, and spoke to people especially in its emotionally poignant finale. The last 40 minutes were extolled on social media as being spectacular and Vishnu Manchu performance is being termed as a career-defining moment. There have been however, complaints of pacing and low quality VFX but these complaints were dwarfed by the religious undertones and the strong performances.

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Trade critics claimed that the opening was impressive and initial projections indicated a gross of Rs 13 crore in the opening weekend in global markets, strengthened by the increased numbers of tickets sold in Telugu states and a small collection of $ 25,000 in the North American advance bookings. The fact that Vishnu Manchu has waited 10 weeks before offering the movie on OTT shows an assurance in the movie at the theaters.