This Tamil star’s movie outdid Akshay Kumar’s Kesari Chapter 2, Sunny Deol’s Jaat in April | Bollywood

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Tamil movie outdoes Akshay, Sunny at field workplace

Based on the India Field Workplace Report for the month of April by Ormax Media, Ajith Kumar’s Good Dangerous Ugly, emerged because the top-grossing movie of April 2025. It grossed ₹183 crore on the field workplace, occurring to turn out to be the highest-grossing Tamil movie of the yr to this point.

The Malayalam movie Thudarum, starring Mohanlal, follows carefully, raking in ₹148 crore on the home field workplace. Word that the report solely thought-about the movie’s earnings from the Malayalam and Telugu language markets, because the Tamil model was launched in Might 2025. 

Akshay Kumar’s Kesari Chapter 2 is third on the listing. Hindi movies Kesari Chapter ( ₹107 crore) and Sunny’s Jaat ( ₹103 crore) had been the one movies to cross the ₹100 crore gross mark in April 2025.

With 4 Malayalam movies on this month’s High 10 highest-grossing movies (Thudarum, Alappuzha Gymkhana, Maranamass & Bazooka), April 2025 has turned out to be month for Malayalam Cinema, grossing over ₹200 crore cumulative just for the second time ever after February 2024.

The field workplace report

The Indian field workplace regained momentum in April 2025, with gross home collections reaching ₹825 crore, together with estimated future collections from movies nonetheless operating in theatres, following a dip in March. As per the report, the cumulative field workplace for 2025 releases stands at ₹3,691 crore, which is nineteen% greater than the identical interval in 2024.

On the subject of the highest 10 releases of 2025 (Jan-April), based mostly on gross home field workplace throughout all language variations, Vicky Kaushal’s Chhaava is successful the race with ₹693 crore, adopted by Sankranthiki Vasthunam at ₹222 crore after which Good Dangerous Ugly at ₹183 crore.

Hindi and Telugu languages lead the listing of the highest grossers of 2025 to this point with three movies every. With the addition of Good Dangerous Ugly and Thudarum, Tamil and Malayalam languages now have two movies every within the high 10 movies of 2025. As per the info, there may be presently no Hollywood movie within the listing, however that may change in Might 2025, with the discharge of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Not possible—The Remaining Reckoning.