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Post-amendment to the Tamil Nadu Entertainment Tax Act 1939 on 27 September 2011, gross jumped to 130 per cent of net for films with non-Tamil titles and U certificates as well. Commercial Taxes Department disclosed ₹85.81 crore in entertainment tax revenue for the year. According to the FICCI-EY media and entertainment industry report, the Tamil film segment registered domestic net box office receipts of ₹946 crore with 12.6 crore admissions.

Box office collection

The highest-grossing Kollywood films released in 2016, by worldwide box office gross revenue, are as follows.

Released films

January – July

July – December

Dubbed films

Awards

Notable deaths

• J.Jayalalitha — 5 December
• Cho Ramaswamy - 7 December

Notes

1. Box office gross values of ₹650 crore were reported for Kabali in the first 13 days by several organisations including Financial Express and Indian Express, which were more than double the estimates made by other sources. International Business Times (IBT) and Firstpost criticized these estimates as inflated, explaining the discrepancy as due in part to the addition of "pre-release business" figures, such as music and satellite rights sales of ₹200 crore, being factored into the box office sales totals. Firstpost wrote, "More conservative estimates put Kabali's collections at around Rs 300 crores from worldwide ticket sales." IBT's analysts in August 2016 estimated the film's worldwide gross total of its first 13 days at around ₹350 crore (US$52.09 million).
   Figures given in December 2016 by Financial Express indicated an estimated domestic gross of ₹215 crore and an overseas gross of ₹262 crore, which total ₹477 crore. A figure of USD$77 million given by Forbes in May 2017 converted to approximately ₹493–499 crore. According to International Business Times in October 2017, Kabali's final worldwide gross was around ₹286 crore (US$33 million).

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