New Delhi: Actor Prithviraj Suumaran's Directorial L2: Employmentstarring Mohanlal, earned Rs 22 crore across India on its opening day, according to trade tracking website Sacnilk.

L2: Employmentwhich released in theatres Thursday, is the second installment of the action franchise Lucifer. Malayalam cinema star Mohanlal reprises his role of Stephen Nedumpally aka Khureshi-Ab’raam from the previous movie.

According to Sacnilk’s early estimates, the film collected Rs 19.45 crores in Malayalam, Rs 1.2 crores in Telugu, Rs 80 lakh in Tamil, Rs 50 lakh in Hindi, and Rs five lakh in Kannada.

The film team’s are yet to share the official box office figures. On Wednesday, the makers claimed that L2: Employment had collected Rs 80 crore through pre-sale reservations alone.

Previously, the highest opening collection for a Malayalam movie in India was Prithviraj’s AADUJEVITHAM (2024), which amassed over Rs 7.6 crores nett on day one. And before that, Mohanlal’s national-award winning film Marakkar: The Lion of The Arabian Sea earned Rs 6.8 crore nett when it was released in 2021.

Touted to be one of the costliest productions of Malayalam cinema, L2: Employment This is a produced by antony perumbavoor, gokulam gopalan and subaskaran allirajah.

The film, written by murali gopy, features an ensemble cast includes includes includes, tovino thomas, abhimanyu singh, manju warriier, jerome flynn and ebouaney.