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Suriya’s film sees massive footfall in Chennai on opening day, beats Nani’s HIT 3

Retro Box Office Collection Day 1: Suriya's first film of 2025 is here. On Thursday, Retro, starring Suriya and Pooja Hegde released. Visuals from across Chennai showed fans thronging theatres for the early morning shows of Retro. Retro Box Office Collection Day 1 According to the early estimate by industry tracker Sacnilk, Retro had quite a houseful opening. On day 1, the film minted ₹13.22 crore for all languages so far. However, these are just the earnings from the morning and afternoon screenings of Retro. The final figures will be up on the website post 10 pm. If the film manages to maintain its current momentum, it could easily double its earnings. Retro vs HIT 3 at box office For now, Suriya's film has outperformed its main opponent at the box office, Nani-starrer HIT 3. Following closely, HIT 3 has so far minted ₹11.96 crore. In terms of audience turnout, Retro had an overall 79.91% occupancy among Tamil audiences on day 1. Nani's film witnessed an overall 4...

Clinical Mumbai's sixth straight win gives them top position and knocks out Royals

Mumbai Indians (MI) came into this game having never won in Jaipur since 2012. They must not have liked that very much because first, they posted the joint-highest IPL total at this ground, then trounced Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 100 runs and finally got back up on their perch on top of the points table. RR, meanwhile, were knocked out of the playoffs race. The half-centurions: Rohit and Rickelton The first three overs were eerily quiet. Just 16 runs came off them and Rohit Sharma survived an lbw dismissal thanks to a very late call for DRS. "Ooooooh YESSSS," he said, throwing his head back and smiling as he saw green instead of red on ball-tracking. A switch must have flicked because the last three overs of the powerplay went for 42. Rohit's runs were almost secondary to the way he was batting. He figured out what Jofra Archer was trying to do with both his boundary riders on the leg side. Bowl straight. So he made room and immediately a ball on top of leg stump became...