Vignesh Shivan addresses LIK breaking Pradeep Ranganathan’s ₹100 crore streak; admits being sad with box office result
Filmmaker Vignesh Shivan’s Love Insurance Kompany was released in theatres on April 10 to mixed reviews. The film’s box office performance broke lead actor Pradeep Ranganathan’s ₹100 crore streak with Love Today (2022), Dragon (2025) and Dude (2025), collecting less than ₹70 crore. As the film was released on Prime Video on May 6, Vignesh admitted that LIK’s box-office performance made him sad. Pradeep Ranganathan and Krithi Shetty in a still from Vignesh Shivan’s Love Insurance Kompany. Vignesh Shivan addresses LIK’s box office performance Vignesh wrote on a long note on Instagram that he had a dream with LIK that was not small nor safe. He believed the story would ‘echo in crores’ and ‘shake the walls of cinema’. “I imagined applause… I saw it in the theatres, I manifested laughter – I heard it in the theatres, But still the benchmark of 100 crores wasn’t touched! I was imagining double of that to be honest,” he wrote. The filmmaker admits that somehow the film didn’t land as intended, adding, “Even though am a little …
