Kaatru Veliyidai
, the film directed by
Mani Ratnam
released in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously. The Telugu version is titled as “
Cheliyaa
.” The Tamil version released in the US collected a whopping amount of $64,000 in the Premiere show. The first-day collection and the premiere of Tamil version made $175, 000 and the Telugu version was also released in the US and it collected $49, 000. Overall the film collected $2, 24, 000 in the US. It is estimated to be Rs. 1. 55 Crore. It is exciting to know that a film released in the US collected crores in just one day. It is expected that the film would join the Half Million club in the US, by this weekend. Kaatru Veliyidai features,
Karthik Sivakumar
,
Aditi Rao Hydari
,
RJ Balaji
,
Shraddha Srinath
,
Rukmini Vijayakumar
,
Delhi Ganesh
and “
K P A C Lalitha
.” Music composition is by “A R Rahman” and Cinematography is by
Ravi Varman
. Madras Talkies produced the film.