India, Nov. 7 -- Malayalam filmmaker Jithu Madhavan's Tamil debut film, Scene, was released in theatres on Friday ahead of Diwali. The film starring Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen opened to mostly positive reviews and performed well at the box office. It opened better than Suriya's hits this year, Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons, bringing in over Rs.19 crore. However, the film did not beat the openings of Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 and Vijay's Jana Nayagan.

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Scene collected Rs.19.15 crore net in India on its opening day, making most of it from the Tamil version over Telugu. According to the trade website Sacnilk, it ...