2022 has been the best year for films in different languages in South India since the covid era. The states have witnessed house full shows due to concerns that people who have switched to OTT will return to theatres.
Mass films that arrived with fanfare and celebrations and various experiments created success in the theater. Even the films that didn’t become huge hits later created huge debates.
Along with this, there is a discussion on social media that 2022 can also be considered as the year of comebacks.
Many actors and directors of the film responded to the accusations and criticisms they had been hearing for some time through films. These posts and discussions also point out that many of them saw the prospect of achieving records that had been written off as bad girls.
The most celebrated of these is the return of legends Mammootty, Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam.
Mammootty has been heavily criticized in the last few years for not being able to create hits at the box office. Mammootty has given an answer to that with Bhishma Parvam and now Roshak.
Bhishma Parvam is the third highest grossing film in Malayalam. Roshak, which released on October 7, is also getting good collections.
Kamal Haasan is an actor who has had to listen to similar or even harsher jokes. There were many people who said that Kamal Haasan is not even worth the third tier actors in the theaters and that his glory days are over.
The low number of films and the hiatus after 2015’s Thunkavan and 2018’s Vishwaroopam Part II fueled these criticisms.
But in 2022, Kamal Haasan, who made a grand comeback with Lokesh Kanakaraj’s Vikram, took the theaters by storm. 420 Crore Varikutty became one of the highest grossing Tamil films.
Mani Ratnam, who entered this crore collection list with Ponniyin Selvan, is the next star in 2022. Mani Ratnam, considered one of India’s finest directors, is constantly criticized for not making it to the Koti club.
These arguments were strong after Rajamouli’s Baahubali. Mani Ratnam used to be compared to director Shankar earlier. Now Mani Ratnam has given the answer to all this through Ponniyin Selvan.
Released on September 30, the film has already collected more than 400 crores. Observations are coming that Ponniyin Selvan will soon break Vikram’s record as the highest grossing Tamil film of 2022 and may even surpass Baahubali’s collection.
At the same time, there are those who are of the opinion that such assessments should not be made. They are of the opinion that Mammootty, Mani Ratnam and Kamal Haasan are all legends of cinema and it is not advisable to judge them only on the basis of their box office results in some years.
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