I which was released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi has been termed as a box office winner despite attracting mixed reviews.
Its second weekend(23rd-25th) collection in Chennai alone has been 1.5 crores and in the weekdays the romantic-thriller managed to pile up an impressive 1.53 crores. The total collection from the capital city stands at 6.88 crore rupees.
In its second week, I has done well enough to retain good number of screens in Andhra, Kerala and Karnataka and is still going strong. But most importantly, the contributions from overseas market has been phenomenal so far for a Vikram starrer.
Only after two weeks, the movie has moved into the third position for any Tamil film after Enthiran and Sivaji when it comes to the combined overseas box office collections. By the time I is done, it might even overtake Rajinikanth's Enthiran at the worldwide box office.
While the overall collections in the USA stands at an impressive $1.26 million, its neighbouring country, Canada has contributed with $324,000. In the United Kingdom, the movie has been evidently liked by many as it has managed to amass £362,863. Australians also have welcomed
the movie with open arms as the Australian box office collections stands at A$334,714. In other countries like New Zealand and Malaysia, Shankar's I has collected NZ$37,356 and MYR 3,146,295(approx) respectively.
