Trade tracker A B George says Rajinikanth's sequel has already banked ₹50 crore in worldwide pre-sales, with two days left before its Thursday opening.
Two days out from release, Jailer 2 is already doing numbers at the box office window, and the film hasn't even hit screens yet.
Trade tracker A B George posted on X at 8:07 PM on Tuesday, October 13, claiming the Nelson Dilipkumar directorial has crossed ₹50 crore in worldwide advance bookings. That figure, according to the post, puts the sequel in range of an opening day that could clear ₹100 crore, though George was careful to frame that as a projection, not a done deal.
Worth remembering here: these are pre-sales numbers from a single tracker, not an audited studio figure. The final tally depends on how many more shows open up, how aggressively distributors add screens in the next 48 hours, and what happens once walk-in audiences start buying tickets on release morning itself. Advance booking totals have a habit of moving fast in the last day before a big Rajinikanth release, so treat ₹50 crore as a floor, not a ceiling.
Jailer 2 opens in theatres worldwide on Thursday, October 15. Rajinikanth returns as Tiger Muthuvel Pandian, the role that turned the first Jailer into one of 2023's biggest Tamil hits, and Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu, Mirnaa and Rithvik are all back from that film.
The sequel has padded out its cast considerably for round two. S. J. Suryah and Mithun Chakraborty join as new principal players, alongside Suraj Venjaramoodu, Vidya Balan, Anna Rajan and Jatin Sarna. Mohanlal and Shiva Rajkumar are in for cameos, and Jackie Shroff rounds out a cast list that reads like a pan-India casting director's fever dream.
Behind the camera, Nelson Dilipkumar writes and directs again, with Kalanithi Maran's Sun Pictures producing. Anirudh Ravichander scores the music, Vijay Kartik Kannan is behind the camera, R. Nirmal edits, and Chethan D'Souza handles action. Anirudh's soundtrack, for what it's worth, has already crossed 100 million-plus streams and landed on Spotify's club list, so the film arrives with its music already doing the rounds before the trailer crowd has even settled.
What happens next is simple enough on paper: the film releases Thursday, and the real numbers come in over the following 24 hours. Advance bookings are a mood indicator, useful for gauging appetite in the big urban multiplex markets, but they don't tell you how a Rajinikanth film plays in the mass single-screen circuit that actually decides whether a Jailer sequel becomes an event or just another big Friday.
For now, the ₹50 crore figure is doing its job, keeping Jailer 2 in the conversation two days before anyone's actually watched it. Whether that translates into a ₹100 crore opening day will be clear by Friday morning, once the first trade estimates from the actual box office start landing.
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