Raavanan took a bumper opening when it released on June 18 in Chennai city and suburbs, Coimbatore city but started wobbling on Monday and Tuesday. However thanks to the five day holiday season it picked up very well on Wednesday and is doing steady business over the weekend.
Says a well known trade analyst: “Mani Ratnam has to thank the state government who announced the five-day holiday due to Tamil Conference, which really pepped up Raavanan collections. The film which carries mixed reports will now be saved to a certain extent and the Tamil version will do better business than Hindi and Telugu versions put together.”
Meanwhile Suhasini Mani Ratnam, the director’s wife and the movie’s dialogue writer met Chennai City Police Commissioner T. Rajendran and complained that the pirated version of Raavanan are doing the rounds in Tamil Nadu. The pirated CD’s of the film first surfaced in Pondicherry, a haven for Tamil film pirates. Later speaking to newsmen Suhasini said: “ We have asked the police to stop the sales of pirated CD’s of the film coming from neighboring states. We have managed to block some of the websites which had illegally uploaded the movie.”
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