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[Mina Meiss]

Adiscussion that comes up quite frequently in social media in the last few days among movie Box Office fans about which movies have a better market abroad. Tamil films or Telugu films? This post tries to answer this question. I have tried to put together as much details for your understanding as possible.

Tamil films have a much bigger and geographically wider market abroad compared to Telugu films. An average tamil film enjoys almost twice the market that of a Telugu film in dollar terms. The reason is Tamil diaspora is huge and spread all over the world. Tamil is an official language in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Apart from this a huge numer of tamil people from Sri Lanka have migrated to Canada, UK, France, Australia and other European countries. Cities like Toronto, London and Paris have

large and established tamil community. There is a significant tamil population in the US and Gulf countries.

Tamil films have a market in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Malaysia and Singapore since the early days of tamil cinema. After Tamil people in Sri Lanka started migrating to Europe, Canada in big numbers after the Civil war broke out in Sri Lanka in 1983. The surging tamil population in these countries created a demand for tamil movies. Since late 1980s tamil films are being screened in these countries but only after 1990 it became a more regular and organized business. For instance, the much hyped Rajinikanth starrer Thalapathy released simultaneously across 8 countries along with India for 1991 Diwali. Though the release in newer markets was limited outside the traditional strong market of SL, SG and Malaysia.

This is only to give a rough picture of BO collection for a typical tamil film. Actual numbers might vary a bit. Medium budget films get slightly more revenue from established markets such as Malaysia, Singapore & SL than as shown here.

Take for instance, the Rajinikanth starrer Chandramukhi (2005) with 82 prints for the Overseas market and here is the print count for each territory. Please note that prints is not the same as screens/theatres. The same physical print can be used screened in many theatres across many locations especially in places like the US.

Around this time, biggest Telugu films were not getting released with more than 10 prints. Chiranjeevi Starrer Andarivadu release months after Chandramukhi did, had 12 prints including 9 prints for the US. This was the widest overseas release at the time. Other big ticket telugu films at the time had about 6-8 prints only. For Stalin, released in 2006, the print count went up to 29 with 18 prints for the US, 6 prints for Gulf, 2 each for UK and Australia and 1 for Singapore.

For those wondering if the estimates were too liberal, just compare the numbers Reported by Taran Adarsh for Raja Rani for opening weekend alone and this film. The numbers I used here are very conservative and at the lower end.

P.S: The BO figures shown here are numbers available in social media and web and can be easily available to verify. The print counts and other details are obtained from internet and reliable sources at the time. Few minor errors might exist.

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