Undoubtedly one can say Thala Ajith’s Mankatha took stupendous and the best ever opening in 2011. Especially in Tamilnadu the film has done 93 % opening in 350 plus screens.

For fans August 31st turned out to be Mankatha festival as the theaters where the film is getting screened were decorated and his fans came out early in the morning to perform Paalabhishekam to Ajith’s cutouts. The morning show of the film started at 5.00am in the morning and all the screens got 100 % collections, something that last happened only for Rajinikanth’s Endhiran.

The collection figures are yet to be tabulated, but Mankatha will set best ever opening day collections in Thala’s career.

Surprisingly, Mankatha was proved as a biggest hit and reportedly had the highest openings in Tamil which exceeded the records of Rajinikanth’s Endhiran.