Kollywood release

Karuppu

Name: Karuppu
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Released: 2026-05-14
Duration: 152 min
Cast: Suriya, Trisha Krishnan, RJ Balaji, Indrans, Anagha Maya Ravi

Kollywood20262h 32mTamilTop 15% of Kollywood budgets

80Standing

10th of 227 in Kollywood

Reported gross: 92
Return on budget: 67
Audience rating: 50
Momentum: 98

Out-grossed 92% of Kollywood releases with reported figures ($36M).
Returned 2.3× its budget, against an industry median of 1.5×.
Momentum in the 98th percentile.
Audience rating 6.6 from 32 votes, the 50th percentile.

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Cost: $16M
Took: $36M

Against a Kollywood median of 1.5×, so this one returned 1.5 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

In a world where justice falters, guardian deity Vettai Karuppu takes the guise of a lawyer to battle a corrupt legal system preying on the powerless.

Released: 14 May 2026
Runtime: 2h 32m
Language: Tamil
Industry: Kollywood

Top billedAll 25 credits

SuriyaKaruppuswamy / Saravanan
Trisha KrishnanPreethi
RJ BalajiBaby Kannan 'BK' / Usilampatti Karuppaiah Gandhi 'UKG'
IndransMattancherry Sukumaran
Anagha Maya RaviBinu Sukumaran
SwasikaVasanthi

Made by

Director: RJ Balaji
Writer: RJ Balaji, Ashwin Ravichandran, Rahul Raj, T. S. Gopi Krishnan, Karan Aravind Kumar
Original Music Composer: Sai Abhyankkar
Director of Photography: G. K. Vishnu
Producer: S. R. Prabu, S. R. Prakashbabu

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