Even I heard the same but not sure how true is that...I feel to create a hype it was said but no one knows the real budget ...
2015 Top Aus Tamil Openers: :)
I - A$ 247,751 .
Puli - A$ 166,748
Illayathalapathy Vijay’s ‘Puli’ may have been getting mixed to negative reviews from critics and social media users, but the films seems to have caught the fancy of women and children , thus garnering a box office receipt of close to Rs. 50 crores in the opening weekend worldwide. :2thumbsup:
It is reported that in Chennai alone ‘Puli’ has collected close to Rs. 3crores in the first weekend while ‘Baahubali’ managed Rs.1.75crores and it remains to be seen whether the fantasy film will go on to make history like its predecessor.
http://m.indiaglitz.com/illayathalap...ws-143822.html
Thupakki is once a life time movie...really amused how vj accepted a film which not even have a single mass scene( yes few mass dialogues thr) and how he selected chimbudevan(after IMSAI arasan all flops)which is huge huge risk and really a daring attempt...In fact sridevi has a better intro..
When movie pre release business itself done for around 95 crs then how comes budget is 120 crs...its just said to create curiosity in which most of Tamil producers used to do tat...Even for Ai wen Oscar claiming huge budget Shankar cleared that its well below hundred crores... I think one safe thing for vj is all the distributors except chennai/nsc are regularly releasing vj films and have a good rapport with vijay..one more thing is like jilla tn distribution price should have been revised after rejection of tax exemption
***Release dates
1 October 2015
Running time
154 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget ₹118 crore (US$18 million)[1]
Box office
₹32 crore (US$4.8 million)[2]
Till 04 October 2015 (Tamilnadu)***
This is what wikipedia says. If it is not true, someone should go and get that fixed the "number" correctly.