Vijay's son opened his directing career with Sandeep Kishan and Faria Abdullah in the lead, but the numbers suggest audiences aren't showing up the way his fan base hoped.
Sigma isn't finding its audience. Jason Sanjay's first film as director, with Sandeep Kishan and Faria Abdullah in the lead roles, has managed only ₹6.19 crore across its opening four days, according to data from Sacnilk. Day four alone brought in just ₹84 lakh, a drop from the days before it.
The film, produced by Lyca Productions, released on October 2 with the kind of hype that comes attached to anyone carrying the Vijay surname. Except Jason didn't step in front of the camera the way his father built a career doing. He went behind it, following his grandfather's path into direction instead of the hero slot fans had quietly scripted for him.
That timing mattered. Jason's entry as a filmmaker coincided almost exactly with Vijay's own exit from the industry, and that overlap gave the launch an emotional charge it might not otherwise have had. On day one, his mother Sangeetha and sister Divya Sasha turned up for the first show at Chennai's Kamala theatre, and the response inside the hall was reportedly enthusiastic.
The film itself is a mixed bag by most accounts. As a director, Jason seems to have handled the technical side competently enough. The screenplay is where the trouble starts. The first half holds together in patches, but the second half runs out of ideas, with viewers able to predict what happens next well before it does, according to Filmibeat Tamil's review of audience reaction.
Fans aren't writing him off, though. The general sentiment seems to be that it isn't a disaster, just a shaky first outing, the kind of thing a debut director is allowed. The expectation being floated is that his next project will show more command over the writing.
But goodwill doesn't pay distributors. Four days in, Sigma has neither the reviews nor the collections that would mark it as the launchpad its backers were hoping for. Both commercially and critically, this isn't the result Jason or Lyca would have wanted from a debut carrying this much attention.
The question now is whether word of mouth stabilises the numbers over the coming weekend or whether the film fades out quietly. For a launch that arrived with so much goodwill riding on a famous surname, the next few days of collections will say a lot about where Jason Sanjay's directing career goes from here.
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