Breaking News - Suriya becomes one of the highest paid actors in India

Suriya is now officially the 2nd highest paid actor in South India after Rajinikanth and puts him ahead by a mile with respect to his competitors. Suriya's take home remuneration stands at Rs. 24 Crores that he received for Maatraan (including Telugu Rights). This is at least 10 Crores higher than the nearest competitors such as Ajith and Vijay in that order. Suriya's years of dedication in slowly building his Telugu market since Ghajini has paid rich dividends now. This huge gap in remuneration will be difficult to close by both Ajith and Vijay since they haven't made much inroads in Telugu Industry, which is the wild card when it comes to BO collections these days. 

Maatraan Telugu Rights sold

Our internal sources in Telugu Industry confirmed that Producer Bellamkonda Suresh has bought the rights of Suriya & KV Anand's Maatraan's Telugu rights for whopping 17 Crores. This deal was signed last week. This has proved to be a windfall for Surya because of the intelligent way he had structured the deal with AGS -- 7 Crores in payment + full Telugu rights. If Maatraan becomes a hit for this Ayan team, Suriya will be able to justify the new benchmark he has set for himself and for others.

Betting on the winning combination

Maatraan was able to generate so much buzz because of multiple reasons -- pre-release hype surrounding 7th Sense, KV Anand's market in Telugu after Rangam(KO Telugu) becoming a spectacular Hit, Harris Jayaraj is much sought after music director after 2 hit albums(Rangam and Orange), and finally Kajal Agarwal firmly establishing herself as top heroine in Telugu. All these factors have exponentially increased the demand for Maatraan in Telugu industry and Suriya was able to capitalize it well at the right time.