Rajinikanth's sequel crossed ₹150 crore gross in its home state in a week, even as its Kerala run has already overtaken Leo's full lifetime collection there.
Jailer 2 has crossed ₹150 crore gross in Tamil Nadu within its first week, according to industry tracker Ramesh Bala, who posted the figure on X at 11:52 AM on Thursday, October 22. The number covers seven days of release in the film's home state, Filmibeat reported, with the sequel entering Day 8 the same day.
That Tamil Nadu milestone lands a day after an equally striking regional number out of Kerala. Tracker AB George said on Wednesday evening that Jailer 2's Kerala gross had touched Rs 60.1 crore by Day 7, nudging past Leo's entire lifetime Kerala run of Rs 60 crore. The margin is thin, barely worth calling a victory lap, but it puts Nelson Dilipkumar's film ahead of Vijay's 2023 hit and ahead of Rajinikanth's own original Jailer, which managed Rs 57.70 crore in the state across its full run. Vikram, Coolie and Ponniyin Selvan trail well behind on the same list.
The national picture remains harder to pin down. Koimoi's Day 6 figure, dated to Tuesday, October 21, put the India net at Rs 289.05 crore across six days, with a single-day collection of Rs 46.8 crore that outlet said was enough to edge past Coolie's lifetime net of Rs 285.01 crore. A separate tracking run citing Filmibeat Tamil had put the Day 6 India net nearly Rs 50 crore higher, at Rs 337 crore, with worldwide gross at Rs 541 crore. Neither claim lines up cleanly with the other, and there's no sign yet of the two trackers reconciling their math.
What both agree on is the trend line. Jailer 2 has kept pulling audiences through a week of heavy Tamil Nadu rain, on a reported Rs 300 crore budget, a fraction of the Rs 1,000-crore talk that trailed Rajinikanth's other 2026 release, Coolie, before that film settled closer to Rs 500 crore. The cast is stacked for a reason: Rajinikanth returns as Tiger Muthuvel Pandian alongside Ramya Krishnan, with cameos from Mohanlal, Shiva Rajkumar, Hrithik Roshan, Vidya Balan and Vijay Sethupathi doing exactly the job cameos are meant to do, keeping the film in conversation past opening weekend.
The real target is the original Jailer's lifetime haul of roughly Rs 605 to 609 crore. With Day 8 now underway and no festival bump to inflate the numbers, the next few regular weekdays will say more about whether Jailer 2 gets there than any single-day spike has so far.
Earlier updates
- Day 7, Kerala (AB George via CutMirchi, Oct 21): state gross crosses Rs 60.1 crore, overtakes Leo's lifetime Kerala run of Rs 60 crore
- Day 6 (Koimoi, Oct 21): India net at Rs 289.05 crore across six days, single-day collection of Rs 46.8 crore, said to overtake Coolie's lifetime net
- Day 6 (per Filmibeat Tamil, Oct 21): India six-day total at Rs 337 crore, worldwide gross at Rs 541 crore, single-day collection of Rs 45.55 crore on October 20
- Day 6 (earlier tracking): worldwide gross crosses Rs 500 crore in six days, India net at Rs 287.80 crore, overseas at roughly Rs 204 crore, North America at $5.17 million
- Day 5: worldwide collections at Rs 477.75 crore, nearing the Rs 500 crore mark
- Day 3: a 44 percent jump in gross collections over the previous day, setting up a blockbuster Saturday
- Day 2: worldwide total at Rs 209.10 crore, making it the fastest Tamil film of 2026 to cross Rs 200 crore inside 48 hours
- Opening day: North America recovers 31 percent of its breakeven target on day one itself
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