Kalyani Priyadarshan first to make ₹200 crore at the box office

Kalyani Priyadarshan’s Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra made ₹200 crore at the box office. She became the first female actor in Malayalam to have made ₹200 crore at the box office, joining the big leagues.

Actor Kalyani Priyadarshan has been choosy about her work since her debut in the 2017 Telugu Akhil Akkineni-starrer Hello. It looks like her patience has paid off because with Dominic Arun’s Lokah Chapter 1 – Chandra, she didn’t just become India’s first female superhero,

Malayalam cinema has cracked the ₹200 crore mark very recently with the successes of Mohanlal’s L2 Empuraan ( ₹265.5 crore) and Thudarum ( ₹234.5 crore) this year, apart from Soubin Shahir and Sreenath Bhasi’s Manjummel Boys ( ₹240.5 crore) in 2024. And now, Lokah has joined the big leagues by collecting ₹202 crore worldwide in 13 days of release. While female-led films themselves are few and far between in Malayalam, for Lokah to make such numbers is no mean feat.