Mohanlal’s much-awaited directorial debut, Barroz, is not doing well at the box office. The film is a major disappointment as far as its performance is concerned. Despite the hype surrounding it, the film has failed to pick up, garnering only 8.71 crores in India over five days. The fifth-day collection showed an increase of 8%, collecting 1.35 crores as compared to 1.25 crores on day four. Opening it in this amount with 3.40 crores, the film thereafter earned 1.60 crores and 1.11 crores on its second and third days, respectively.
Since Barroz was made on a lavish budget of 80 crores, the current box office performance is suggestive of a massive shortfall. The film is yet to recover more than 90% of its budget, and with no significant upward trend in collections, it seems increasingly unlikely that it will reach its break-even point. This poor performance is compounded by stiff competition from other recent South Indian releases like UI, Marco, and Viduthalai Part 2.
Directed by Mohanlal and produced from the novel Barroz: Guardian of D’Gama’s Treasure by Jijo Punnoose, this film has been promoted as an adventure of great scale. Along with Mohanlal, the cast of the movie includes Maya Rao West, Tuhin Menon, Ignacio Mateos, and Gopalan Adat. Lydian Nadhaswaram, Fernando Guerreiro, Miguel Guerreiro, and Mark Killian have worked as music composers for this movie. Despite the star power and ambitious scale, Barroz is now on track to be labeled as a box-office disaster, with audiences rejecting the film entirely.
