Thug Life, starring Kamal Haasan and directed by Mani Ratnam, continues to struggle at the box office. After the fifth day of it’s worldwide release, the pan-Indian film paled in comparison with Housefull 5, the big Bollywood release of last week.
According to the portal Sacnilk.com, the gangster drama took its domestic earnings to 40.52 crore with a ₹3.62 crore earning on June 09, 2025 (Monday). The Tamil version of the movie made ₹3.25 crore while the Telugu and the Hindi versions collected ₹29 and ₹8 lakh respectively.
The global worldwide gross of Thug Life stands at ₹75 crore. On the contrary, Housefull 5, despite negative reviews, managed to rake up ₹13.76 crore on the same day. The fifth film in the well-known franchise stars Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Jacqueline Fernandez, Kriti Kharbanda among others.
For Kamal Haasan, who co-produced Thug Life under his banner Raaj Kamal Films International, the movie’s poor show comes on the back of the disastrous performance of Indian 2, directed by S Shankar. Mani Ratnam, on the other hand, had a delivered a humungous hit with his Ponniyin Selvan films, before Thug Life.
Also starting Silambarasan TR, Trisha, Ashok Selvan, Joju George and Nasser, the Thug Life has music from A R Rahman and cinematography from Ravi K Chandran. Sreekar Prasad has done the editing for the movie.
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The Hindu review of the movie said, “It doesn’t help that the film fails to add more to its archaic fight-for-the-throne conflict at the centre of the film. Subplots and layers seem added purely for convenience, like a character that returns in the climax to serve a meagre purpose.
Despite a master filmmaker at the helm, all the star power in its arsenal and the right ingredients to make a heady modern gangster drama, it makes you grope in the dark for its beating heart.”
Published – June 10, 2025 12:29 pm IST