Top 10 Highest Grossing South Indian Movies In Overseas Markets
South Indian Movies shining big across the country and globe. After Bahubali, the face of South Indian Cinema And Indian Cinema changed a lot. The south movies’ potential in terms of storytelling, making, market and collections took a huge turn and made big numbers and won awards. Recently, The RRR movie became a global hit and won many international awards from Hollywood Critics Choice to Oscars nominations.
Not just Indian Market, the South Indian Movies market overseas opened up to a big scale as south movies are earning big numbers in overseas markets. Movies like Baahubali, 2.0, RRR, KGF 2, Ponniyin Selvan movies and their overseas collections are fine examples.
From Baahubali to KGF 2, here’s a list of Top 10 Highest Grossing South Indian Movies In Overseas Markets
10. Bigil Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $12.46 Million
INR: ₹1,033,251,555
Thalapathy Vijay’s Bigil the sports action drama directed by Atlee got good openings from Day 1 and went on to become one of the biggest hits in Tamil and Vijay’s career.
9. Kabali Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $14.17 Million
INR: ₹1,175,054,136
Superstar Rajinikanth’s Kabali movie directed by PA Ranjith did good business despite flop talk from Day 1.
8. Baahubali 1 Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $14.50 Million
INR: ₹1,202,419,547
The first installment of Baahubali franchise became the first 500 Crore Telugu, South movie. Baahubali 1 got sensational openings, collections and long run in both Indian and Overseas markets.
7. Enthiran Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $14.55 Million
INR: ₹1,206,565,821
Enthiran (Robo) movie of Superstar Rajinikanth & Aishwarya Rai starrer movie collected good numbers at Indian BO and Overseas markets as well.
6. Vikram Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $15.47 Million
INR: ₹1,282,857,268
Kamal Haasan starrer Vikram movie directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj became a monstrous hit at the box office with huge profits for Kamal as producer.
5. Ponniyin Selvan Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $19.79 Million
INR: ₹1,641,095,367
Mani Ratnam’s dream project Ponniyin Selvan PS-1 became a huge hit in Tamil Nadu, Indian and Overseas markets with huge profits.
4. 2.0 Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $20.12 Million
INR: ₹1,668,460,778
Superstar Rajinikanth & Akshay Kumar starrer 2.0 movie directed by S Shankar became a huge hit and collected huge numbers in overseas markets.
3. KGF 2 Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $26.4 Million
INR: ₹2,189,232,830
Yash starrer KGF Chapter 2 movie went on to become the highest grossing Kannada movie with 1000+ crores Sandalwood movie. KGF 2 made huge money at Indian and Overseas markets.
2. RRR Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: $35.41 Million*
INR: ₹2,936,391,459*
Note: Still Running In Japan*
RRR movie starring Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Alia Bhatt & Ajay Devgan became a global hit at the box office and collected huge numbers overseas including ever before and after Indian movies in Japan.
1. Baahubali 2 Overseas Collections
Overseas Gross: US$60.7 million
INR: ₹4,975,529,160
Bahubali 2 directed by SS Rajamouli minted huge money at the Indian and Overseas box office. Bahubali 2 still holds the record of highest grossing Indian and South Indian movie in Overseas.