Nandamuri Balakrishna and Nayantara have come together for their Sankranthi film, Jai Simha. K.S. Ravi Kumar directed the movie and C. Kalyan bankrolled the project. Natasha Joshi and Hari Priya played the other two important roles in the movie. Sankranthi has been the best of the season for Balakrishna and his Jai Simha seems to be doing well even though the critics bashed the movie for being too routine.
B and C centers seem to be going for the movie over the weekend and also, the Sankranthi holidays. The film has not been doing well at the Overseas market and mostly closed the business in Rest of the Indian areas, but in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the movie is doing better than the other releases.
The collections break down from various areas is as follows
Nizam – 2.32 crores (share)
Ceded – 2.88 crores (share)
UA/Vizag – 1.31 crores (share)
East – 1.18 crores (share)
West – 1. 05 crores (share)
Krishna – 0.80 crores (share)
Guntur – 1.57 crores (share)
Nellore – 0.63 crores (share)
Total AP/ TS – 11.75 crores share
17.5 crores gross
Karnataka – 1.10 crores share
2.2 crores gross
USA – 0.35 crores share
1.2 crores gross
ROI – 0.70 crores share
2.0 crores gross (estimated)
Total Worldwide collections for weekend – 13.9 crores share
23 crores gross.
