Kushi Bites Dust At Re-release Box Office

Not everything is gold, and Tamil superstar Vijay has learnt it the hard way.

When Kushi re-released in the Kollywood circuit after 25 years, everyone expected it to be as successful as Vijay’s previous re-release Ghilli, which had created a record when it re-released last year. The film was directed by SJ Suryah, who is now more famous as an actor.

However, all expectations bit dust as hardly few people turned up for the actual release. This is the second consecutive flop for producer AM Rathnam, who had previously invested big in the historical fiction drama Hari Hara Veera Mallu, which starred Pawan Kalyan Pawan needs no introduction to South Indian people >> Read More... in the lead role.

Kushi was a romantic drama which starred Vijay and Jyothika in the lead roles. The movie was a huge blockbuster at the time of its release in 2000, so much so that it inspired not one, but three remakes that released between 2001 and 2010. However, only the Telugu version starring Pawan Kalyan and Bhumika Chawla Bhumika Chawla or Rachna Chawla is an Indian actre >> Read More... in the lead roles managed to match the hype of the original.