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Amidst the Coolie Singapore box-office fervour, Baasha gears up for re-release!

PUBLISHED DATE | 18/Aug/2025

Superstar Rajinikanth's latest release Coolie, has been having a blockbuster run in all overseas locations it released in on August 14, 2025. In Singapore, the movie went on to gross S$ 1.27 Million at the 4-day opening weekend box-office.

 

Coolie Singapore Opening Weekend Box-Office

Day 1 - S$ 480K 

Day 2 - S$ 275K 

Day 3 - S$ 314K

Day 4 - S$ 200K

Total - S$ 1.27M (Rs. 8.65 Cr)

 

Coolie crossed the S$ 1M mark in the first three days of the film's release, eliciting a tweet from the Singapore High Commissioner in India. 

 

 

Now amidst all this fervour, Rajinikanth's cult blockbuster Baasha (1995) is gearing up for a re-release in Singapore on August 29, 2025. Mask Studios is distributing the Baasha re-release in Singapore, and reportedly the opening night on August 29 is already 80% full at the moment. 

 

 

Coolie (2025) written and directed by Lokesh Kanagraj is a Sun Pictures production with Anirudh Ravichander for music. The movie is an action thriller following the story a former union leader-turned-boarding house warden (Rajinikanth) who is pulled back into the underworld, where buried pasts, undercover betrayals, and a daughter (Shruthi Haasan) he must secretly protect collide in a brutal battle between coolies, and a global crime syndicate with Nagarjuna, Soubin Shahir, and Aamir Khan as villains.

Baashha (1995) written and directed by Suresh Krissna is a Sathya Movies production with Deva for music, and Balakumaran for the timeless dialogues, that went on to become iconic over the decades. Baasha is a gangster action thriller that follows the story of a meek auto-rickshaw driver (Rajinikanth), in Madras who hides a deadly past as 'Baashha,' Bombay’s most feared don—until old enemies resurface, forcing him to unleash the gangster within. Baashha has Nagma as the female lead, and Raghuvaran, Devan as antagonists. 


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