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Naayagan was a BB at many places evenoutside TN and Manithan didnt have 100 days even in chennai. Their fans cheat by telling there was 9.45 AM show in AVM Rajeswari and it completed 100 days there. In reality there was no such show at all. Rajini had a habit of faking his 60/70 days movies as 100 days and so on. Even for baadshah in kovai tey made it force run for 365 days, but Indian which came next year, broke baashaa collection in kovai just in 192 days itself. But 100 ஆண்டுகளுக்குப்பின் வருபவர்களுக்கு 192 days விட 1 வருதம் தான் பெருசா தெரியும் )

In 80s Kamal had kind of bit less or inconsistent hits where rajni had more hits. Kamal had Absolute rockers like Aboorva SagotharargaL,Naayagan etc, though. but later, his experimental movies made a dent at his BO.

But even then, i wud say, in later years, when Rajini gave Baashaa, Kamal gave not one but 2 BB Indian and AvvaiShanmugi in just one single year! Then, when Rajni gave Padayappa kamal gave Tenaali(though not eq to padayap, its was a BB, KSR named kamal as UlagaNaayagan after its rocking business in overseas. He published districtwise collections in paper!)

Then, both kamal and rajini gave their share of flop, Aalavandhan and Baba

Fewyears later, both returned to BO Superhits with Chandramuki for rajini and VV for Kamal. Again, VV slight less but still very close to CM. Again, CM was draaaaagged till 800 days in producer's theater itself

Then both gave Industrys biggest BB Sivaji for rajini and Dasavatharam for kamal. Both were record breaking. THen Rajini gave Robo and kamal gave VR(though VR broke only Hindi collections of Robo and other lang remains still untouched) but still VR was a bigger thing at BO.

Now UV had a run and made money like what a movie like that will generally make. In a way, i find all is well and fare.