Dragon box office collection day 6: Pradeep Ranganathan and Ashwath Marimuthu’s film gets into safe zone with budget recovery; capitalises on Maha Shivratri

By now, there is no doubt that Tamil film Dragon has become a successful blockbuster and been making big numbers at the box office. The film starring Pradeep Ranganathan in the lead role, is written and directed by Ashwath Marimuthu and is currently running in theatres.

Dragon box office collection day 6 report

Pradeep Ranganathan-starrer Dragon has collected over Rs 45 crores in six days at the box office in India. As per the Sacnilk report, Dragon has made Rs 45.70 crore, with its release in Tamil and Telugu. The film is nearing one week since its release, and has already made over Rs 50 crore worldwide. With this, the film has already recovered its budget and has also earned about Rs 5 crore on Maha Shivratri day. At this rate, the film will take over Vidaamuyarchi and Madha Gaja Raja, to become the top grossing films in Tamil this year so far.

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Dragon is produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, Kalpathi S. Ganesh, and Kalpathi S. Suresh under AGS Entertainment. The film released in Telugu as Return of the Dragon. The drama film revolves around a college student with 48 arrears, now leading a good life with high salary and about to get married. However, a particular circumstance forces him to return college to clear the backlogs.

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Written and directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, the film also stars Anupama Parameswaran, Kayadu Lohar, Myskin, Gautham Vasudev Menon, VJ Siddhu, Harshath Khan, KS Ravikumar, George Mariyan, Indhumathy Manigandan, Thenappan and others. The film opened to positive reviews upon its release.

The post-theatrical streaming rights of the film have been bagged by Netflix. Leon James has scored the music, with camera cranked by Niketh Bommireddy and Pradeep E Ragav handling the edits.

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“Dragon warrants for a theatre watch. There is enough and more for the audience of today’s age to get entertained and schooled at the same time. If you can look beyond certain glorifications and making women say sorry for a man’s wrongdoings, Dragon becomes a film on how redemption works,” reads OTTplay review.

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