It has been more than a month since the release of Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan's Vikram, but the movie is not showing signs of slowing down. 

Having collected more than a whopping Rs400 crores in box office collections worldwide (Rs300 crores in India alone), the action thriller directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj is also doing extremely well on Disney+ Hotstar, where it was released last weekend.

In a tweet, the streaming platform said that Vikram recorded the highest ever opening weekend viewership, subscription and watch time.

Here's a list of trivia about Vikram that you may not know about: 

• The film brings together three National Award winners: Kamal Haasan, Fahadh Faasil, and Vijay Sethupathi. Kamal has four national awards under his belt, while Fahadh and VJS have one each. 
•  Most of the guns used in the film are owned by Kamal, with proper licence. 
• This is Kamal's first film after his foray into politics.
• This is the first time the Ulaganayagan title card sequence has appeared for a film not directed by K.S Ravikumar. The director was responsible for giving Kamal the title.
• Vikram is Kamal's first film released after a four-year-hiatus. He was last seen on the big screen in Vishwaroopam (2018). 
•  Buoyed by the success of the film, Kamal gifted the director Lokesh a Lexus ES300h luxury sedan as a sign of appreciation.
• It was reported that actor Suriya did not charge a single sen to appear in the brief yet impactful role as drug lord "Rolex Sir" at the end of the movie.
• Kamal gave Suriya his own Rolex watch worth a whopping Rs47 lakhs. In addition, the veteran actor also gave the assistant directors of the movie, a motorcycle each. 
• While the Tamil version had 'Chacku Chacku Vathikuchi' from the 1995 movie Asuran played in two scenes, the Hindi version had the track changed to 'I am a disco dancer' from 1982 movie Disco Dancer. 
• Close to the intermission, Vijay Sethupathi's Santhanam character is seen wearing a partially broken sunglasses. This is believed to be a nod to the role of Sugirtharaja, the antagonist in the 1986 Vikram, played by Sathyaraj. 
• Vikram marks the beginning of director Lokesh's cinematic universiti, dubbed the Loki Cinematic Universe (LCU) by his fans, by incorporating characters and story line from his 2019 movie Kaithi. 
• Vikram was released on the same week as Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise. Coincidentally, the first instalments of both Vikram and Top Gun were both released in 1986. Both sequels are super hits. 

There you go, some facts about the super hit movie Vikram. What other trivia do you know?


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