The Tamil film Viswasam released in January has become the highest grossing Tamil film in Tamil Nadu in terms of NETT and GROSS collections. The highest grossing film in the state still remains Bahubali - The Conclusion which is the only film to cross 150 crore GROSS and 125 crore NETT.

Viswasam has grossed around 111 cr nett in the state which makes it the third Tamil film to cross 100 crore nett after Endhiran (2010) and 2.0 (2018). There have been  tax changes in the state and at the time of Endhiran the Tamil films were tax free.

Viswasam is still running so may collect a little more but it is already the highest grossing Tamil film in Tamil Nadu ever. It will also be the first Tamil film to cross a distributor share of 75 crore in Tamil Nadu with a final share close to 80 crore. Bahubali - The Conclusion was 90 crore and 2.0 was 71 crore. Below are the collections of the top fifteen grossers in Tamil Nadu. All the films are tracked in NETT as cinemas report NETT but due to the tax changes the NETT collections do not give the correct picture. So the below numbers are GROSS figures for all films

1. Bahubali - The Conclusion - 1,58,46,00,000 (2017)

2. Viswasam - 1,31,26,00,000 (2019) (Still Running)

3. 2.0 - 1,28,85,00,000 (2018)

4. Sarkar - 1,23,72,00,000 (2018)

5. Mersal - 1,23,19,00,000 (2017)

6. Petta - 1,15,74,00,000 (2019) (Still Running)

7. Endhiran - 1,01,59,00,000 (2010)

8. I - 79,28,00,000 (2015)

9. Kabali - 76,07,00,000 (2016)

10. Vedalam - 75,25,00,000 (2015))

11. Theri - 73,98,00,000 (2016)

12. Sivaji - 70,30,00,000 (2007)

13. Thupakki - 69,83,00,000 (2102)

14. Kaththi - 69,18,00,000 (2014)

15. Vivegam - 67,77,00,000 (2017)