From 1 Lakh To 500 Crore: List Of Tamil Movies Which Achieved First Of Its Kind Collections In Kollywood

Kalidas, released in the year 1931, was the first Tamil movie to collect 1 Lakh

Haridas (1944) is the first Tamil film & also the first South Indian film to gross 50 Lakhs

Chandra (I) (1948) is the first Tamil & South Indian film to gross over 1 crore worldwide

Kamal Haasan’s Sakalakala Vallvan (1982) was the first Tamil film to collect 5 crores

The 1980 film Apoorva Sagodharargal, directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and starring Kamal Haasan, is the first Tamil film to gross over ₹ 10 crores at the box office

Rajinikanth’s Annamalai (1992) grossed over 15 crores, this was the first Tamil film to achieve this feat

Baasha (1995) was the first Tamil & South Indian film to collect 25 crores, 30 crores, and 40 crores worldwide

Kamal Haasan’s Indian is the first Tamil film to collect 50 crores worldwide

Rajini’s Padaiyappa is the first Tamil & South Indian film to collect 60 crores worldwide

The first Tamil film to collect 75 crores was Chandramukhi. It is also the first South Indian film to do it so

Sivaji became the first Tamil film to collect 100 cr worldwide

Shankar & Rajini’s visual wonder Enthiran became the first Tamil movie to gross over 200 crores worldwide

Kabali became the first Tamil film to collect 300 crores worldwide

Shankar & Rajini’s 2.0 is the first Tamil film to reach 500 crores