Jailer 2 Box Office Collection Day 15 Highlights

Jailer 2’s Thursday earnings registered a slight decline from its third Wednesday (day 14) collection of Rs 6.55 crore across all languages at the domestic box office. After 15 days, the total earnings of Jailer 2 have crossed the Rs 500 crore mark gross in India, thus becoming only the second Tamil film ever to achieve that feat.

The first one to do so was the only other sequel Rajinikanth has done before Jailer 2. S Shankar’s 2018 sci-fi action epic 2.0, the sequel to Rajinikanth’s 2010 blockbuster Enthiraan, amassed Rs 519 crore gross at the domestic box office back then.

The difference between the domestic box office collections of Jailer 2 and 2.0 is that while the latter enjoyed a wider release in the Hindi market, also aided by the presence of Akshay Kumar as the chief antagonist, the former had a compromised Hindi release owing to disagreements with leading multiplex chains PVR INOX and Cinepolis over its four-week window before a streaming release.

While 2.0’s total domestic box office collection included a massive contribution of Rs 225 crore gross from the dubbed Hindi version, Jailer 2 has managed to earn around one-fifth of that, Rs 54.75 crore, within 15 days, given it’s found a release only in secondary national multiplex chains and single screens across India. Thus, most of its business has come primarily from the Tamil and Telugu versions.

The worldwide box office is a different story. Jailer 2 had already amassed Rs 765.15 crore gross globally within 15 days of release. It’s already the highest grossing Tamil film of all time globally, having surpassed 2.0, which collected Rs 691 crore during its lifetime.

Jailer 2, the sequel to Rajinikanth’s 2023 blockbuster Jailer, also stars Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu, SJ Suryah, Mithun Chakraborty, and Vidya Balan among others. Produced by Sun Pictures, it also has cameos by Mohanlal, Shivarajkumar, Jackie Shroff and Hrithik Roshan.