Thalapathy Vijay’s Beast has become the first ten crore grosser of the year, in Chennai city. The film is the second ten crore grosser in the city in the post-pandemic range, after Vijay’s own Master which released last year.

This is Thalapathy Vijay’s 6th 10 crore grosser in Chennai city (Theri, Mersal, Sarkar, Bigil, Master & Beast), though Sarkar remains the highest with 14.85 crores. While Superstar Rajinikanth has six ten crore grossers in the city (Enthiran, Kabali, Kaala, 2point0, Petta & Darbar) and Ajith has three in the form of Vivegam, Viswasam and Nerkonda Paarvai.