Despite lofty promises from the actor Suriya and producer KE Gnanavel Raja, who projected Kanguva as a major hit, the film’s underwhelming box office performance has raised eyebrows. With questions over its inflated budget, the film’s financial transparency is now under scrutiny.
Are Tamil Films Focussing On Entertainment?
With the growing awareness and increased interest in movies with well-crafted, intriguing plots in recent years, both movie enthusiasts and the general public are now quick to label films like Rajinikanth’s Vettaiyan, and Director Ranjith’s Thangalaan as flops, ignoring their budgets and promotions. People are beginning to realize that these films are not made to entertain, but are instead agenda-driven projects designed to impose specific ideologies and cater to the interests of their political masters, nothing more.
In this regard, the latest addition to the list of flops this year is ‘Kanguva’, starring the Dravidianist actor Suriya. Suriya is known for virtue signaling and promoting anti-Hindi politics of DMK, peddling hate against Brahmins and Vanniyars in Jai Bhim, and distorting the story of Air Deccan founder Gopinath by portraying him as a follower of anti-Hindu bigot EV Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as ‘Periyar’ by his followers).
During the movie promotions for Kanguva, Suriya made several statements making tall claims about the film. His producer KE Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green who is also said to be his close relative claimed that the film would be a hit and urging people to keep their promotional tickets for a success celebration event. However, after two days of its release, fans across all languages are complaining, with many questioning, “What kind of dumb jarring movie is this?” They criticize the constant shouting throughout the film, and note that Suriya hasn’t changed his acting style at all; the only difference is the makeup.
Although producer KE Gnanavel Raja initially expressed hopes that the film would earn ₹2000 crore worldwide, he adjusted his expectations during a press conference on 15 November 2024 as the first day collection they claim it to be ₹56 crore. He stated, “I had anticipated a much higher opening day figure, but even so, the results we’ve seen are remarkable. The film performed well despite its Thursday release on a weekday. I still believe it will become Suriya’s highest-grossing film by Monday.”
But now, after the Dravidianist actor Suriya’s virtue signaling, it has come back to haunt him, as the political commentators are questioning him in return.
1. RRR, the biggest 3D epic film that became a world sensation, was made with a budget of ₹550 crore with superb production and great 3D effect. Kanguva, a crap of a movie, which doesn’t even match 1% of RRR is claimed to have been made with ₹300-350 crores. The producer anticipated it would generate a revenue of ₹2000 crores—an impressive 7 times return. Could there be any possibility of money laundering involved in such a situation?
2. Will the virtue-signalling Suriya and his team issue a White Paper report detailing the actual expenditure and revenue of the film, starting from their initial movie pooja day to the distribution of the movie?
3. Will the virtue-signaller Suriya, disclose his real salary for the film and the taxes he paid to the government?
4. Did Suriya, Gnanavel and his team not see the final output of the film? If they did, on what basis did they make such tall claims about the film?
5. Did Suriya and his team misled people through their promotion overdrive to fool people and bring them to the theatres?
6. Studio Green claims that the worlwide collections crossed ₹89.32 Crore gross in two days. Can they produce the GST challan for the same. Because, going by the ticket booking trends, the occupancy has been below par.
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7. With Thangalaan also failing at the box office, from where did KE Gnanavel Raja get money to fund this “mega budget” film which has flopped?
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