Drishyam 3 follows close to its excellent performance in India and abroad, taking in a global box office record of ₹156 crore within just five days of Mohanlal's film release, and becoming a leading box office movie on record.
The high-calibre third chapter is well underway in India and around the globe as the best-known Drishyam films are already released, so the highest performances observed for the Drishyam film in a decade are definitely consistent with higher-than-anticipated levels.
The crime thriller hit big in major movie theatres and got rave reviews from critics and theatre-goers around the globe. Among his fans, particularly extolled for Mohanlal's turn as Georgekutty, the sharp and inscrutable family man. His story has become one of India’s classic narrative lines of thriller tales.
The film has also been successful in Kerala, home to the first quarter of the film, other states and overseas markets including the Gulf, North America, and Europe, a few of the film’s states. On the same account, the film also achieved high box office receipts thanks in no small part to word-of-mouth publicity and emotional storytelling.
On Day 5, Drishyam 3 held up well in the day’s closing week, after all that backsliding week's collections. The movie did well on Tuesday, industry reports say that it made a good play on Tuesday, posting comfortably above ₹156 crore globally. No big names on the block today are blocking it from entering for the big screen, but this movie will have to wait for days to come to continue in the cinema calendar at the box office.
It is director Jeethu Joseph who ensures that these final instalments turn into mega hits (and they return with an even better balance of suspense, emotional tension and clever scriptwriting).
In fact, a lot of the twisty, multi-layered character we’ve become familiar with thanks to Georgekutty’s journey has mostly settled in with audiences, but the suspense we’ve known like a run-of-the-mill component of the entire saga, as long as we’re following how they go forward, has never left us.
Returnees, other than the Mohanlal fans that populated that film, fill traditional roles in this one movie. The role the filmic heroes play in this is so long that they leave behind a bit of continuity and memory. As I mentioned before in chapter one, the family drama added some emotional depth with the hard-hitting investigatory elements satisfying their audiences.
Indeed, the Drishyam series remains one of the best-selling thriller series in the history of Indian cinema. It became a cult sensation and was later adapted for different Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. And the sequel really took off, particularly after it came onto digital screens during the pandemic.
While Drishyam 3 is blazing its own trail in the box office, fans and trade analysts alike anticipate that as long as momentum carries itself through the second weekend, it may soon be among the members of the ₹200 crore club the world over. The enormous forward reservations and viewership responses would appear to suggest that this could still leave more opportunity for this film to grow.
And by doing that, the high-flying climactic success (this is an ending from the death point) of the film once again underscores the force of Mohanlal (and the enduring charm of well-made thriller dramas), a feature that’s easily found in any Indian narrative. As the box office turns, Drishyam 3 should be one of the decade’s biggest Malayalam movies.
