The vampire thriller added seventy lakh on its fourth day, pushing the four-day tally past five crore, and GV Prakash has reportedly signed on for a second outing with director Mariyappan Sinna.
Four days in, and the number that matters is Rs 5.22 crore. That's the running total for Immortal, GV Prakash's vampire film with Kayadu Lohar, after it added seventy lakh on day four according to figures from Sacnilk cited by Filmibeat Tamil.
The bigger story buried in that number, though, isn't the collection. It's what GV Prakash does next.
According to Filmibeat Tamil, GV Prakash has decided to work again with director Mariyappan Sinna on another project, with an official announcement expected soon. For an actor whose recent outings, including Happy Raja, landed as no more than moderate hits, that's the kind of vote of confidence that gets read as a signal in the trade.
A genre nobody in Tamil cinema touches
What makes Immortal worth talking about is the swing it took. The teaser and trailer leaned hard on Kayadu Lohar's glamour quotient, and going by pre-release chatter, audiences walked in expecting exactly that and not much else. Instead, the film committed fully to vampire horror, a genre Indian cinema barely attempts, let alone in Tamil.
Filmibeat Tamil's report notes that the film managed to use Kayadu Lohar's character for a twist nobody saw coming, and did it without leaning on anything cheap despite the glamorous framing. That's not a small needle to thread. Genre swings like this usually collapse into either straight titillation or straight camp. Immortal, by this account, found a third lane.
The visual effects get singled out too. Several sequences reportedly don't read as CG at all, they read as practical, and for a mid-budget Tamil release that's a genuine flex. Sam CS handles the music, and the packaging appears to have landed with reviewers in a way GV Prakash's last few outings didn't.
Where the numbers sit
Here's where it gets slightly murky. Filmibeat Tamil's own report flags that the film crossed the five-crore mark within four days, then in the same breath describes this milestone as happening "within five days," which reads like a slip rather than a second data point. Either way, the headline figure is clean: Rs 5.22 crore across four days, with day four alone contributing seventy lakh.
Whether that pace holds through the first week is the real test. A vampire film in Tamil cinema doesn't have a comparable release to benchmark against, which cuts both ways. There's no ceiling to bump against, but there's also no proven audience pattern to lean on for a second-weekend prediction.
For now, GV Prakash gets to call this the sensational hit he's reportedly been chasing for years. Whether Immortal turns into a small franchise depends on what Mariyappan Sinna and his team announce next, and on whether the next few days at the box office back up the CG department's hard work.
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