Thug Life starring Kamal Haasan is gearing up for release on June 5th worldwide. The film has also finished the promotional activities, and the censor has also been completed. The Censor Board awarded the film a U/A certificate with a runtime of 165 minutes and 42 seconds, i.e., 2 hours 45 minutes and 42 seconds.
The budget of the film is said to be between 200-220 crores and this includes no remuneration of Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam who also happen to be the Producers of the film. This budget has been recovered from the Non-theatrical rights, Digital rights, Satellite and Audio rights.
Leading OTT platform, Netflix, has bagged the digital rights of the film. Vijay TV took the satellite rights, and Saregama bagged the Audio rights. Makers are releasing the film on their own by taking advances from Distributors as they are comfortable with the Non-theatrical deal. The team is also highly confident about the film, and if it grosses more than 300 crores, then it can compensate for the remunerations of Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam.
Thug Life has also been carrying nearly 10 crores advances sales in India alone and $1.15 Million in the overseas market.