This year, Kollywood audiences celebrated some medium-budget movies that were released with low expectations, more than the top hero movies released this year.
Sundar C's Aranmanai-4 movie, released on May 3rd, was a tremendous success and has collected around 100 crores worldwide, and as per reports, Aranmanai-4 was the first 100-crore movie of Kollywood this year.
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Then, Demonte Colony 2, which was released with Thangalaan on August 15th, ended up a huge blockbuster and thrashed Vikram's Thangalaan movie in the clash. This movie has collected around 85 crores worldwide and done wonders in box office collections.
Maari Selvaraj's Vaazhai was also one of the surprise hits of this year in Kollywood; even without the star-studded actors, this movie managed to gross around 40 crores worldwide, and many audiences highly appreciated it after watching it in theatres.
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A few weeks after the hit of the Vaazhai movie, Kollywood's most celebrated movie of this year, Lubber Pandhu, starring Harish Kalyan and Attakathi Dinesh in the lead roles, was released and ended up as a huge blockbuster. Kollywood audiences celebrated this movie as the most entertaining movie of this year in Kollywood.
Jiiva's science fiction Black movie, which was released one day after Rajinikanth's Vettaiyan on October 11th, was also a super hit, many theatres replaced Vettaiyan with the Black movie after the first weekend due to the over-whelmed responses from the audience for the movie.
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Sivakarthikeyan's Amaran movie was also a surprise to Kollywood this year, as it beats Vijay's GOAT collections in many centers, and as per reports, footfall-wise, Amaran is greater than Vijay's GOAT in Tamil Nadu.