Director Lokesh Kanagaraj had an amazing successful track record till the release of his latest film, Coolie, starring Rajinikanth. The film’s box office trend is not so encouraging, and Lokesh Kanagaraj is now out of Rajamouli’s league.
Rajinikanth released a video byte in Coolie’s Telugu pre-release event and mentioned that Lokesh is like Rajamouli, as all his films have been box office successes.
Yes, all 5 films of Lokesh before Coolie were commercial successes, and even though Leo, starring Vijay, received mixed reviews, it was a big success commercially.
Coolie turning out to be the first failure of Lokesh Kanagaraj, breaking his success streak
However, with Coolie, Lokesh is seeing a setback at the box office, as after a good weekend, the film sees a big drop in collections on weekdays, and all areas are expected to see 15 – 20% losses at the current trend.
With this, Lokesh Kanagaraj drops out of Rajamouli’s league. But pulling 80% recovery for a record business with a mixed WOM certainly proves how big his brand is among audiences.
His next film is said to be the biggest project of Kollywood ever, which is a multi-starrer of Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan. This will surely create huge anticipation among audiences.
