India, Dec. 28 -- Vrusshabha box office collection day 3: Just months after he gave Malayalam cinema its biggest ever opening and highest ever collection with L2: Empuraan, superstar Mohanlal suffered the ignominy of seeing his career-worst start. His latest release, Vrusshabha, an ambitious Rs.70-crore project, opened to miserable numbers at the domestic box office and was almost wiped out clean overseas.

Vrusshabha opened at a mere Rs.60 lakh domestically on its first day, Christmas. Seeing how the first day number was this low, and that too on a holiday, trade pundits did not expect the film to recover anyway. But days 2 and 3 were much worse. According to Sacnilk, Vrusshabha earned Rs.22 lakh on day 2 and just Rs.24 lakh on day 3, Sa...