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Year-end Roundup: Best Tamil movies of 2022

The year 2022 has been a mixed bag for Kollywood. While a host of Tamil movies made it big at the box office, some of them failed to live up to the hype, despite the presence of stars.Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan-1 (PS-1), starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Vikram, Karthi and Sobhita Dhulipala in the main roles, hit the theatres on 30 September 2022. Kalki Krishnamurthy wrote this epic historical fiction on the succession battle in the Chola empire.Made with a budget of ₹500 crore (including part 2), the movie reportedly collected a gross of ₹500 crore worldwide and became the highest-grossing Tamil film in 2022.In Tamil, it is the biggest-ever film that overcame not only 2.0 but also Vikram (₹372 crore) by approximately ₹50 crore.It did business worth ₹221.80 crore in Tamil Nadu, surpassing Vikram’s record by a massive 20 percent margin.Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan-1’. (MadrasTalkies_/Twitter)• Tamil Nadu: ₹221.80 crore• AP/TS: ₹23.70 crore• Karnataka: ₹27.20 crore• Keral…