Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 has broken a nine-year Kerala box office record, overtaking Baahubali 2: The Conclusion to become the highest-grossing non-Malayalam film in the state, according to industry tracker reports published on October 27–28, 2026. The milestone is the latest in a run of records for the Tamil sequel, which opened in theatres on October 15, 2026.
Film industry tracker AB George reported the development in a post on October 27, according to Filmibeat, saying Jailer 2 had passed the reported lifetime Kerala gross of ₹72.20 crore earned by S. S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali 2. Variety India put Jailer 2’s current Kerala gross at around ₹72.25 crore, just past the Baahubali 2 benchmark. The figures cited are industry-tracker estimates rather than independently audited box-office data, and should be read as such.
A record that stood for nine years
Baahubali 2, released in 2017, held the Kerala record for a non-Malayalam release for nearly nine years, according to both reports. Its lifetime collection in the state became the benchmark against which every major release from another Indian language was measured. That Jailer 2 has passed it in under two weeks underlines how strongly the Rajinikanth sequel has played in Kerala, a market where Tamil films traditionally travel well but rarely at this scale.
Sacnilk’s day-13 Kerala coverage, published on October 28, put the film’s Kerala total higher still at ₹72.85 crore, consistent with the direction of the tracker reports. The small differences between the published figures reflect the usual variation between tracking sources during a film’s run, rather than any disagreement about the record itself.
Part of a much bigger run
The Kerala record sits inside a worldwide run that Variety India put at around ₹736.89 crore, with the film already reported as the highest-grossing Tamil film worldwide. Directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, Jailer 2 features an ensemble cast including Ramya Krishnan, Mohanlal, Shiva Rajkumar, Jackie Shroff, Vidya Balan, Hrithik Roshan and Vijay Sethupathi, according to Variety India.
Whether Jailer 2 can push towards ₹100 crore in Kerala alone remains an open question, Variety India noted, since the film’s daily collections have begun to slow after its second weekend. For now, though, the record is a symbolic changing of the guard: a benchmark set by one of Indian cinema’s biggest-ever hits has finally fallen, and it has fallen to a Tamil sequel in its second week.
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