A game of chase and get chased

Mankatha

Name: Mankatha
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2011-08-31
Duration: 161 min
Cast: Ajith Kumar, Arjun Sarja, Vaibhav, Ashwin Kakumanu, Premji Amaran

Kollywood20112h 41mTamilTop 39% of Kollywood budgets

67Standing

49th of 227 in Kollywood

Reported gross: 78
Return on budget: 80
Audience rating: 68
Momentum: 36

Out-grossed 78% of Kollywood releases with reported figures ($18M).
Returned 3.5× its budget, against an industry median of 1.5×.
Momentum in the 36th percentile.
Audience rating 6.8 from 77 votes, the 68th percentile.

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Cost: $5M
Took: $18M

Against a Kollywood median of 1.5×, so this one returned 2.3 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

Vinayak, a suspended cop, helps a group of four men rob cricket betting money amounting to 500 crores INR. When it comes to splitting the amount, betrayal hits the team hard and a chase ensues.

Released: 31 August 2011
Runtime: 2h 41m
Language: Tamil
Industry: Kollywood

Top billedAll 21 credits

Ajith KumarVinayak Mahadevan
Arjun SarjaPrithviraj
VaibhavSumanth
Ashwin KakumanuGanesh
Premji AmaranPrem
Mahat RaghavendraMahat

Made by

Director: Venkat Prabhu
Screenplay: Venkat Prabhu
Writer: Venkat Prabhu
Original Music Composer: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Director of Photography: Sakthi Saravanan
Producer: Dhayanidhi Alagiri, Vivek Rathnavelu

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