Ajith starrer Valimai opened big on Day 1 and gained a mixed talk. It had an excellent weekend in Tamil Nadu box office. After the weekend the film has dropped drastically. The film even failed to perform well on the festival day but surprisingly the film witnessed a big jump on Saturday in collections and today’s bookings are good in all areas.
Valimai focused on the effects of drugs, robbery and motorbike’s rash driving on Youth. Telugu Actor Karthikeya played the role of baddie driving them all. This is his debut in Tamil film. Ajith choosing a bike racing concept completely is new. This generally raised much expectations. Ajith’s prior films had only some action sequences which concentrated on these bike action stunts. But Valimai was completely projected as an action based story with full of stunts. The film generally lacked the elements expected in a star hero film naturally. But being projected as a racing drama helped this film somehow. Thanks to the budget supplied by Boney Kapoor.
Valimai had a repeated viewing by the family audience even though the film has an action based drama as the backdrop. This shows about the repeat value the film getting. We need to see how the film holds on the second weekend.