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Diwali Box Office features coverage of major film releases during the festive season, focusing on competition among upcoming movies. Recent stories highlight shifting release plans, potential clashes, and box office expectations for key Tamil and Hindi films.
Nayanthara’s big-budget fantasy sequel opens to a shocking ₹2 crore in India, with global totals below ₹3 crore. Competing releases Suriya’s Scene and Ramayana are outperforming it across markets.
Scene has crossed the ₹100 crore global mark in just three days, making it one of the fastest-growing Diwali releases in recent memory.
Mookuthi Amman 2 is reportedly stepping back from its Diwali release after teaser criticism over VFX quality, according to Track Tollywood. That would leave Suriya's Scene as the sole big Tamil release on November 6.
Suriya's Diwali release Scene, directed by Aavesham's Jithu Madhavan, aims to make it three 200-crore hits in 2026 after Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons, banking on a rare Tamil-Malayalam cast combination.
Nayanthara's Mookuthi Amman 2 is likely to release around Diwali, the same window as Ranbir Kapoor and Yash's Ramayana, according to 123telugu, setting up a potential box office clash in Tamil Nadu.