New Delhi:

Malayalam L2: Empuraan of Prithviraj Sukumaran, leading Mohanlal, is still running very successfully in local theaters. The follow-up of Prithviraj’s directorial debut Lucifer from 2019 that became a bomb Empuraan is being praised for being one of the most ambitious projects in Malayalam cinema. Last Sunday, it was the fourth day of the appearance of the movie at the box office. With the weekend collection of Rs 14 crores the film has seen an upward trend. This was just a little more than the income on Saturday of Rs 13.25 crore that itself was an improvement from Friday’s Rs 11.1 crore collection.

Nonetheless, the most effective day of the show’s display time to day was its debut (Thursday), wherein it amounted up to Rs 21 crore across five languages, as per Sacnilk’s source. On Sunday, Empuraan accounted for the major part of its income – Rs 13 crore – from the one spoken in Malayalam, trailed by Rs 45 lakh from the Tamil language, Rs 31 lakh from the Telugu language, Rs 20 lakh from the Hindi language, and Rs 4 lakh from the Kannada language.

Consequently, the total box office revenue of the movie in India is currently Rs 59.35 crore, which is a bit short of the Rs 60 crore mark. Empuraan has done well, though all the while it was among the films that had stirred the hornets’ nest because of the specific mention of the 2002 Gujarat riots has been performing. After coming under fire, the crew of the movie producer confirmed that episodes with violence towards women would be cut which would bring further changes including the name of the antagonist.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders of different states had taken the movie as an issue, and

the conflict was enlarged more at that time. Mohanlal was one of the people who linked the two and to vent his feelings he said publicly on Sunday. The brilliant act was venturing the social media platform and addressing the concerns of the people that the controversial part would not be a part of the movie. It has been confirmed after the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Opposition Leader V. D. Satheesan extended their support to the movie, Mohanlal stated that they no longer hold any antipathies to any political or religious group.

A message from the actor was conveyed in which the team apologized, expressing their collective responsibility, and the director Prithviraj along with the producer Antony Perumbavoor later re-posted it.L2: Empuraan is a star-studded affair with Manju Warrier, Abhimanyu Sharma, Indrajith Sukumaran, Sukant Goel, and Nikhat Khan being the protagonists. The movie brought to light by Murali Gopy is directed and produced by Aashirvad Cinemas. This is already the third directorial work of Prithviraj with Mohanlal, following Lucifer and Bro Daddy. Apart from the historical significance of becoming the first Malayalam movie to be released in IMAX, Empuraan has also set a new record for Malayalam cinema.