According to IMDB, out of the 10 biggest openers at the box office worldwide, eight films are from South India:

1. RRR: Rs 222.5 crore (Rs 2.25 billion)

2. Baahubali: The Conclusion: Rs 213 crore (Rs 2.13 billion)

3. Saaho: Rs 124.6 crore (Rs 1.246 billion)

4. 2.0: Rs 105.5 crore (Rs 1.055 billion)

5 Kabali: Rs 90 crore (Rs 900 million)

6 Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy: Rs 85.3 crore (Rs 853 million)

7 Thugs of Hindostan: Rs 76.2 crore (Rs 762 million)

8 Baahubali: The Beginning: Rs 73 crore (Rs 730 million)

9 Sarkar: Rs 71.5 crore (Rs 715 million)

10 Sultan: Rs 71.3 crore (Rs 713 million)

The South Indian films do get an advantage over Hindi films because they are dubbed in multiple languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. They have a good fan following in the NRI market too.

A week before the release of K.G.F.: Chapter 2, the Hindi dubbed version of RRR touched Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) at the box office.

The south film industry is giving Bollywood the jitters as they do not know what the future holds for them.

“K.G.F. 2 was a mighty opponent for Jersey. It was like standing in front of a tsunami. They would have been swept away,” Taran Adarsh says. “I told the producers of Jersey that they need to shift the dates but they didn’t do it. When they saw the advance bookings for K.G.F. 2, they decided to release the movie a week later.”