‘Dragon’ box office collections day 18: Pradeep Ranganathan’s film holds strong, nears Rs 100 crore mark | Tamil Movie News – The Times of India

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Pradeep Ranganathan’s newest comedy entertainer ‘Dragon’ continues its regular run on the box office, gathering Rs 92 crores in 18 days. Co-starring Kayadu Lohar, the Tamil-Telugu bilingual has maintained robust momentum regardless of new releases, proving its attraction amongst audiences.

Based on early estimates from the Sacnilk web site, ‘Dragon’ earned Rs 1.15 crore on its 18th day, including to its spectacular whole. The film had already collected Rs 90.85 crore in its first 17 days, benefiting from optimistic phrase-of-mouth and powerful weekend progress.
The film opened with Rs 6.5 crore on its first Friday and noticed a major bounce over the weekend, gathering Rs 12.75 crore on Sunday. The first week ended with a strong Rs 50.3 crore. ‘Dragon’ continued its stronghold within the second week, bringing in Rs 31.9 crore regardless of the standard weekday drop.

In its third weekend, ‘Dragon’ earned Rs 2.05 crore on Friday, adopted by Rs 3.65 crore on Saturday and Rs 2.95 crore on Sunday. On its third Monday (Day 18), it maintained a good maintain with Rs 1.15 crore.
On March 10, Dragon recorded 16.73% occupancy in Tamil markets. Morning reveals noticed a 13.59% turnout, which elevated to 17.54% within the afternoon earlier than barely dipping to fifteen.82% within the night. Regardless of being in its third week, the film attracts audiences, particularly in city facilities.

Can Dragon cross Rs 100 crores?

With Rs 92 crores in its pocket and regular earnings in its third week, ‘Dragon’ is inching nearer to the coveted ₹100 crore milestone. If the film maintains its present pattern, it may cross the mark inside the subsequent few days. The film can be getting extremely optimistic critiques from the audiences with 4 stars out of 5 and our official evaluation studying, “Even the well-known “Idhu ungallukku sonna puriyaadhu sir” dialogue makes a cameo. Aside from these, you additionally get hat tricks to Premam, Simbu, and different movies and actors, including flavour to the comedy sequences. From roping in VJ Siddhu and Harshath Khan to all of the fascinating meta references, Ashwath has managed to cater to the youth in all doable methods. Talking about such references, the film’s different massive power is the small however emotionally loaded dialogues — for instance, “Oru thappu panitu straightforward ah kadantharlaam nu nenaikurom, however adhu thoratite iruku la” — which are written with care. The casting, too, is solely excellent. Pradeep Ranganathan as Raghavan aka Dragon makes you empathise with him at the same time as he repeatedly makes unsuitable selections.”