After much-anticipation, Vignesh Shivan-Pradeep Ranganathan's Love Insurance Kompany (LIK) released in theatres on Friday. Thanks to the themes revolving around science fiction and romance, the film has witnessed massive footfall from audiences, taking its opening day numbers to close to Rs 10 crore worldwide.
According to trade website Sacnilk, the film collected Rs 6.85 crore across 3,202 shows in India, thereby bringing total India gross collections to Rs 7.93 crore and India net collections to Rs 6.85 crore. Overseas, the film made Rs 2 crore on the first day, pushing its total global collection to Rs 9.93 crore. The promising numbers are expected to continue through the weekend as interest for the film continues to grow among audiences with the box office collections expected to cross the Rs 30 crore milestone within the next few days.
While a major share of the revenue (Rs 5.45 crore) came from Tamil, the Telugu version had also garnered a promising number of Rs 1.40 crore, thanks to Pradeep's growing fan base in the Telugu-speaking states.
After facing massive success with Love Today and Dragon, Pradeep Ranganathan's 2025 film Dude also collected Rs 10 crore at the box office on its opening day, but day 1 numbers for LIK seems to have fallen slightly short of that achievement. All three films of the actor-director went on to become box office blockbusters, earning over Rs 100 crore. It is to be seen if LIK too will cross that coveted benchmark.
Besides Pradeep, Krithi Shetty, and SJ Suryah also star in lead roles. Gouri Kishan, Yogi Babu, Seeman, Shah Ra, Malavika, Mysskin, Anandaraj and Sunil Reddy, among others play supporting roles.
LIK is set in 2040 where a company dares to insure love in a world where anything and everything can be insured. A man's app predicts the future of a relationship by calculating risks and even controls them. Until he experiences love for himself, the voice behind it thinks it's just data. The system starts tearing his own relationship apart when it labels it as a failure. He finds that the programme manipulates love rather than just predicting it. He now has to decide between the heart and the purest kind of love he can't stifle and the 2040 system that everyone believes in.
Upon release, the film received mixed reviews. Our CE review of the film read, "Love Insurance Kompany introduces a lot of promising ideas only to suffer a dramatic fall, more dramatic than the film itself. Like Gen Z films that make token cultural references, LIK has refurbished the overdone social media interface with a specious futurism."
Music composer Anirudh once again reunites with director Vignesh for LIK. The crew of the film also includes Ravi Varman as the director of photography, Pradeep E Ragav as the editor.
