The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond box office collection day 4: The Kamakhya Narayan Singh directorial, after being embroiled in a row for weeks, released in India last week. According to Sacnilk.com, The Kerala Story 2 witnessed a growth on Tuesday. The movie was released after the Kerala High Court lifted its ban.
The Kerala Story 2 box office
According to the report, on day one, the film earned ₹4.65 crore, on day two, ₹4.75 crore and on day three, ₹2.50 crore. On day four, the film collected ₹3.39 crore nett in India as per early estimates. It had a total of 3444 shows and 14.4% occupancy. So far, the film has earned ₹15.29 crore nett in India.
The first chapter of the film, The Kerala Story, earned ₹10.07 crore on day four of its release, according to film trade analyst Taran Adarsh. Directed by Sudipto Sen, it released in theatres in 2023.
The Kerala Story 2 row
Since the release of the trailer, the sequel received strong reactions from all corners. While several users criticised the film and called it “propaganda,” the makers said that the story is based on researched real-life incidents. After a legal battle, the film saw the light of day.
The Kerala High Court Division Bench last week lifted the stay on the release of the film. The High Court Division Bench of Justices SA Dharmadhikari and PV Balakrishnan stayed the interim order passed by Single Bench Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, which stayed the release for 15 days.
About the film
The film is produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. It follows the lives of three young women who fall into what the film describes as deceptive marriages and face alleged forced religious conversions. The film stars Sumit Gahlawat, Ulka Gupta, Aditi Bhatia, Aishwarya Ojha, Arjan Singh Aujla, and Yuktam Kholsa.
What Vipul Amrutlal Shah said about his film
Vipul, in an interview with news agency PTI, said that he felt compelled to make a sequel to The Kerala Story as he wanted to expose a “much larger evil” that extends beyond Kerala and across the country. He added there was no pre-planned franchise strategy after the first film, which earned over ₹300 crore at the box office and won two National Awards.
“There was no plan to make even Kerala Story 2. But after Kerala Story 1, we started getting lots of stories, I realised that there is a much larger evil persisting not just in Kerala but across the country, and we’ve to tell this story because it is much bigger and different than what happened in Kerala Story 1, and that’s why we decided to make part 2,” he said.
“It was not like a marketing gimmick that, ‘Let’s make part two, it’s a good brand, let’s take it forward’. No, nothing like that,” he added.