From Rishab Shetty's Kaantara: Chapter 1 to Ashwin Kumar's Mahavatara Narasimha, South Indian cinema has dominated the box office with its impressive collection in 2025. Let's take a look at some of them.
South Indian cinema has dominated the box office with its impressive collection in 2025. Before the end of the year, let us check on the box office collection for South Indian movies in 2025.
Kantara: Chapter 1 emerged as the highest-grossing South Indian film with Chapter 1. It was directed and acted by Rishab Shetty. It was made with a budget of approximately Rs 130 crores. It minted an amount of Rs 850 crores.
The list also includes Rajinikanth and Lokesh Kanagaraj's film Coolie. It was made with a budget of Rs 350 crores and earned Rs 517 crores, and it was a semi-hit.
The animated movie Mahavatara Narasimha also took everyone by surprise. It was made with an investment of merely Rs 40 crore. But it garnered over Rs 325 crore at the box office and emerged as the biggest blockbuster of the year.
A Malayalam film titled Lokah Chapter 1, featuring Kalyani Priyadarshan, collected more than Rs 300 crore, which is approximately $3 billion. It was made with an investment of Rs 40 crore, and turned out to be a massive hit.
Pawan Kalyan’s They Call Him OG also made it to the list with hits. The film, budgeted at Rs 240 crores, collected about 298 crores. The film is featured in the list of the highest-grossing films of Pawan Kalyan.
Mohanlal and Prithviraj's L2: Empuraan also met expectations. The film was made with a budget of Rs 150 crore, and it made Rs 268 crore. L2 Empuraan shattered records to emerge as a hit.
Movies like Venkatesh, Ajith Kumar, Mohan Lal, and Ram Charan were also talked about. The list includes movies like Sankrathiki Vasthunam, Good Bad Ugli, Thaduram, and Game Changer. Other than these, there was a surprise hit, Su From So, which reached a whopping Rs 125 crore with just a budget of Rs 4.5-6 crore. It’s a low-budget film from the Kannada industry
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