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Who else you want the source to be? if u feel even the director is not trustworthy

I don't know the answer. I have maintained this for long. TN Box office is mostly a black box. No-one reveals actual figures because Ticket rates and # of shows are never fixed (unlike overseas where numbers are revealed)

TN is the only state where producers don't divulge the actual figures. They simply use the numbers to their advantage because the public are not aware of this. To be honest anyone call their movie a BB, but the actual public knows what it is!

Big name producers take a big ticket movie and if it flops they write it as loss to convert Black to White. If it turns a hit, you never hear from them.

Coming back to the original question of yours, The director was the only one to claim. His previous movie Hero (AKA Aamir has told that all this 100C thingy is a BS). But I'll leave it at this point!