Mankatha, the Bodyguard of Tamil Box Office

Ajith Kumar has made the critics, who gave thumbs down to Mankatha, to eat their own words, as the movie has taken the audience by storm. While Hindi movie Bodyguard is doing roaring collection at the Bollywood Box Office, the Tamil movie is all set to rewrite the Box Office history in Kollywood.

Mankatha has reportedly earned Rs 29.64 crores in one week. Our trade sources say that the movie has collected close to Rs 23 crores alone in Tamil Nadu. The movie has a good repeat audience and the most of the shows are running to packed houses. In fact, the movie is also doing good business at the UK, Malaysia and Singapore.

Meanwhile, Mankatha is partially affected due to piracy. The pirated copies of the movie hit internet a few days ago. However, now the makers of the film have taken measures to tackle it and has caught 1,300 websites, which allowed the users to download the movie from internet.

Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan and Arjun Sarja starrer Mankatha was released on August 31.