Leo box office: Thalapathy Vijay starrer bags the top spot in North America, trumps The Exorcist Believer & Saw X

Thalapathy Vijay starrer Leo, which released yesterday at the box office, has turned out to be a record smasher. The action-thriller shattered several milestones and grossed over Rs 145 crore on its first day globally. The film opened at the top position in North America with premiere collections of $1,798,707 beating, The Exorcist Believer ($815,460),  _Saw X_ ($512,815) and others.

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Thank you to the amazing crew who poured their heart & soul into this project!

Huge respect to our dedicated crew whose hard work has brought the magic to life on screen 🙏#TheCrewBehindLEO#Thalapathy @actorvijay @Dir_Lokesh #Leo

— Seven Screen Studio (@7screenstudio) March 23, 2023

While the film has garnered mixed reviews, Leo is expected to continue its phenomenal run with a weekend holiday phase in its target centres. In fact, the dubbed Hindi version has also performed well as it raked in around Rs 3 crore despite not releasing the national multiplexes. Also starring Sanjay Dutt, Trisha, Arjun, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, Mansoor Ali Khan and Priya Anand, the music of Leo is composed by Anirudh Ravichander. Talking about the reviews, Firstpost gave the film 2.5 and wrote, “This is an action film first and foremost, so how were the action sequences? They were definitely not seamless. Take the shot where Leo fights off a large group of people inside the factory. The idea is to give a hawk eye’s view of the entire thing. So the camera is in flight and the scenes are supposed to flow one after another. However, it comes off as fractured, with no point to focus at. The CGI in the film is not up to the mark. Even if we were to give the hyena scene a benefit of the doubt, I cannot forget how thrown off I was at the horse riding scene. The first few shots here just did not work."