Jailer 2, the Rajinikanth action sequel produced by Sun Pictures, had grossed ₹710.35 crore ($74.8m) worldwide by the end of Sunday 25 October, its 11th day in cinemas, according to the box office tracker Sacnilk. That is ₹466.85 crore gross from India and ₹243.50 crore from markets outside India. On those numbers it has passed Shankar’s 2.0 (2018) to become the highest-grossing Tamil-language film on record.
Key facts
- Jailer 2 (Sun Pictures, dir. Nelson Dilipkumar) opened on Thursday 15 October in Tamil, with Telugu, Hindi and Kannada versions.
- Worldwide gross after 11 days: ₹710.35 crore ($74.8m), per Sacnilk; India net ₹398.70 crore ($42.0m).
- Second weekend in India, 23–25 October: ₹64.35 crore net across all four languages, per Sacnilk.
- The last figure from Sun Pictures itself was ₹549 crore ($57.8m) worldwide for the first week, posted on 22 October with no market split.
Almost every number in circulation comes from trackers, not the producer. The Economic Times runs Sacnilk’s totals to the decimal point, while Sun Pictures has published one worldwide figure in 11 days. Anyone pricing a release off these numbers is using estimates, not audited takings.
The numbers and whose they are
Sacnilk says its numbers are approximate and can differ widely from producers’ statements. Its Sunday estimate was ₹25.70 crore net in India from 11,954 shows, up 6.4% on Saturday, with ₹17.35 crore from the Tamil original. Across the run, Tamil accounts for ₹279.30 crore of the ₹398.70 crore India net, about 70%, and the Hindi dub for ₹38.55 crore.
The worldwide figure is gross: Sacnilk’s ₹466.85 crore India gross plus ₹243.50 crore from outside India. Hindustan Times gives the same ₹710 crore total and puts the share from outside India at $25.6m. Sacnilk also estimates 26.4 million admissions in India, a figure no exhibitor body has confirmed.
| After | India net | India gross | Worldwide gross | Reported by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 days (15–18 Oct) | ₹199.90 crore | ₹234 crore | ₹424 crore | Sacnilk (net, our sum); Hindustan Times, Mid-Day |
| 8 days (to 22 Oct) | ₹334.35 crore | ₹391.55 crore | ₹606 crore | Hindustan Times |
| 9 days (to 23 Oct) | ₹348.85 crore | ₹408.55 crore | ₹628 crore | Hindustan Times |
| 11 days (to 25 Oct) | ₹398.70 crore | ₹466.85 crore | ₹710.35 crore | Sacnilk |
The makers’ number sits below the trackers. Sun Pictures posted on X on 22 October that the film had passed ₹549 crore worldwide in its first week, calling it the biggest opening week in Tamil cinema. Tracker-based totals for a similar window ran higher: ₹606 crore over eight days, in the count used by Hindustan Times and Mashable India. A studio figure below the estimates is unusual, and Sun Pictures has not explained the gap or updated its total since.
Where it ranks
Hindustan Times puts the previous Tamil record, 2.0, at ₹691 crore worldwide; CineJosh gives about ₹696 crore. Either way, Jailer 2 is ahead. Behind them, in Hindustan Times’ list, come Vijay’s Leo (₹605 crore), the first Jailer (₹604 crore, 2023) and Coolie (₹518 crore, 2025). The paper counts Jailer 2 as the 18th Indian film and the seventh from the south to pass ₹700 crore. The Economic Times, using identical figures, still called it the second-biggest Tamil film, an inconsistency it had not corrected by Monday.
Among all Indian films, Hindustan Times placed it in the top 20 by its ninth day, past Sultan (₹623 crore) and Salaar (₹617 crore). Within 2026 it trails only Dhurandhar The Revenge, which the paper puts at ₹1,852 crore. Over four days it took ₹424 crore worldwide, against ₹306.34 crore for Jailer and ₹382.50 crore for Coolie, per Sacnilk data cited by Hindustan Times. None of these totals is adjusted for inflation.
The first week had festival help. Sacnilk’s daily figures fell from ₹46.80 crore net on Tuesday 20 October, the Dussehra holiday, to ₹17.15 crore two days later. The second weekend’s ₹64.35 crore net is about a third of the first four days’ ₹199.90 crore, our sum of Sacnilk’s daily estimates.
What is not known, and what comes next
Sun Pictures, run by Kalanithi Maran, has not given an India and outside-India split, a gross-to-net basis or a distributor share, so nobody outside the company knows what the run returns to the producer. No streaming date has been announced. Sacnilk reports that the exhibitor and distributor Tiruppur Subramaniam asked Sun Pictures to hold the digital release back beyond four weeks, and that the company said it would try. Monday’s partial data took the India net past ₹400 crore. The next competition is Ramayana: Part 1, due on 5 November.
Conversions use the European Central Bank reference rate for Friday 23 October, the last fixing before the weekend (₹94.95 to the dollar, cross-calculated from the euro). Elsewhere this week: our Korea weekend report, China chart, Box Office section and India page.
Our reading
A Tamil film with a single-language original now takes about a third of its gross outside India, and the Hindi dub contributes under a tenth of its India net. For a rights buyer, that says the value of a Rajinikanth title lies in the Tamil core and audiences outside India, not in a pan-Indian Hindi release. Distributors outside India pricing the next Sun Pictures film will look first at that $25.6m.
The record also rests on figures nobody has audited. Trackers and outlets agree with each other because many of them copy one source, and the one producer statement is lower. The evidence that would settle the scale of the run is a full-run figure from Sun Pictures with a market split, and the date the film reaches streaming: if the window passes four weeks, Tamil Nadu’s exhibitors will have won a point that matters beyond this release.
Sources
- Sacnilk (Day 11)
- Sacnilk (Day 12)
- Hindustan Times (26 October)
- Hindustan Times (24 October)
- Hindustan Times (20 October)
- Hindustan Times (19 October)
- The Economic Times
- Sun Pictures on X (first-week figure)
- Filmibeat
- Hindustan Times (23 October)
- Mashable India
- Mid-Day
- CineJosh
- European Central Bank reference rate (via Frankfurter)