Dhanush starrer Vaathi also released under the name Sir in Telegu language has started off well at the box office. Co-starring Samyuktha and Samuthirakani in the pivotal roles, the film has grossed at Rs 50 crore globally in its first three days.
Taking to Twitter, the makers penned down, “#Vaathi #SIR grosses 51 crores in just 3 days Best ever opening for our Star @dhanushkraja #Vaathi #SIR tops Monday’s test results as expected. ‘D’ Rampage continues.”
Directed by Venky Atluri, the film revolves around the mot prudent topic of deliberation, education. Speaking to Indian Express, the director said, “There was one incident when I was doing my junior college (Higher secondary is called junior college in Telugu states), and I don’t want to reveal the name of the college. Usually, we used to have classes from Monday to Saturday, and on Saturday and Sunday mornings, we used to have tests. There were senior lecturers and junior lecturers. The latter would take care of the tests. Once they had a drill of a kind where the junior lecturers were asked to go to the houses of the students and discuss the student’s academic performance.”
“So, the lecturers were going to the homes of these students, and there was this one student whose house was just an under-construction building. There was nothing to the house except the four walls and sheets wrapped around the walls. That’s when lecturers came to know that the parents of the student were construction workers, who were spending all the money on their son’s education hoping that he would get a state rank, and they chose this college because it had top rankers last year. It was all because of propaganda and commercialisation of education. The propaganda is that a student can only score good grades if he studies in some particular college or school. That was the starting point for this film.”
