Raavan doesn't get an epic opening

Reliance BIG Pictures and Madras Talkies extensively released their film  Raavan  in around 2200 screens worldwide making it the first Indian film to release simultaneously in Hindi Tamil and Telugu versions. The opening was average on Friday and with negative reports the business clearly dropped on Saturday.

As per the figures disclosed by the distributors, the opening day worldwide gross comes to Rs 20 crores and the first weekend worldwide gross collection is Rs 53 crores. But one has to take into consideration that this is the revenue generated from all the three versions of the film put together - Hindi ( Raavan ), Tamil ( Raavanan ) and Telugu ( Villain ).

The film worked primarily in multiplexes in metros but the business was poor in single screens and interiors.
The negative word of mouth affected the film adversely in a massive way. Mani Ratnam faced a similar backlash when his film Yuva was released in 2004. The film opened to negative reviews and fared badly at the box office though it subsequently acquired cult status.

Sadly, prospects don’t seem to be any good for Raavan as the business that the film did is much lower to that of other recently released biggies. So though the film has no big opposition in its second week with considerably smaller releases in the form of Krantiveer – The Revolution (sequel to Nana Patelar’s 1994 hit Krantiveer ) and Mr Singh and Mrs Mehta (Aruna Shields – Prashant Narayanan), Raavan doesn’t seems to have any scope at the box office.