The Tamil film Jana Nayagan released across India on Thursday and did well with collections of 35 crore nett plus on day one. The film has been in the wars as it supposed to release earlier this year but basically did not get a censor as the main lead Vijay Joseph was contesting elections in Tamil Nadu and there were obviously pressure tactics not to censor the film. The guy won the elections and became Chief Minister of the state but then there was a leak of the film online.

Now its hard to say how far this leak reached and to what extent the potential audience of the film managed to access it but for sure the collelctions of the film would have been affected due to this leak. It is because of this leak that this 35 crore nett is good as otherwise more would have been expected. The film is driven by the home market of Tamil Nadu but Mysore / Karnataka seems very good also with collections looking to come in at around 8.5 crore nett.

The Hindi version of the film was dull with collections in the 1.25-1.50 crore nett range but that is no surprise as the trailer of the looked very bad. There is not much hope for the Hindi version but in the South the film will manage to put collections up which will not be like they would have been if the film had relesed on time earlier this year but will be good considering whet the film has been through over the past six months.