India Oru Vadakkan Selfie returned 7.0× its production cost, earning $4.7M against a $670K budget — one of the highest-return India films in our catalog.
Synopsis
ഒരു വടക്കൻ സെൽഫി
Umesh, a loafer, leaves his home town and goes to Chennai to become a film-maker when his father asks him to manage their grocery store. A selfie that he takes in Chennai changes his life forever.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 23m runtime, production spent $5K per minute on screen and earned $33K per minute back.
Comedy + Drama in India
292 India titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Oru Vadakkan Selfie itself).
The 2014–2016 India Window
Oru Vadakkan Selfie holds position #145 of 282 India films in the 2014–2016 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in India, 919 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Oru Vadakkan Selfie premiered alongside 94 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 94 other India films in 2015.
The 1156th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
34 audience reviews — more than 71% of India films in our index.
Review volume (71th percentile) outruns trending popularity (28th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Oru Vadakkan Selfie, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- blogger · 3
- online chat · 1
- travel · 21
- hacking · 6
- detective · 44
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,034 of 1,983 India films indexed here (48th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among India Comedy productions specifically: #295 of 648 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Malayalam |
| Spoken Languages | Malayalam, Tamil |
| Production Companies | Cast N' Crew |
| Runtime | 2h 23m |
| Release Date | March 27, 2015 |
| IMDb | tt4557014 |