List of highest-grossing South Indian films

Southern Indian Cinema is used to refer collectively to the five distinct film industries of Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema, Kannada cinema and Tulu cinema as a single entity. The list is based on conservative box office estimates as reported by industry sources. However, there is no official tracking of figures and sources publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.

Overview
South Indian cinema has produced many of the most expensive films in the Indian cinema, such as Enthiran, Baahubali, 2.0, RRR and Kalki 2898 AD.

The first South Indian film as well as the first Indian film to gross over ₹1000crore worldwide was the 2017 sequel film Baahubali 2: The Conclusion directed by S. S. Rajamouli. The highest-grossing film in India is Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), with a total domestic gross of ₹1,429.83crore.

Highest-grossing films
The South Indian films which grossed ₹200crore worldwide are listed here, including films from all South Indian languages. The figures are not adjusted for inflation.

Malayalam
Malayalam cinema is the filmmaking industry based in Kerala. The films are made primarily in Malayalam language.

Tamil
Tamil cinema is the filmmaking industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The films are made primarily in Tamil language.

Telugu
Telugu cinema is a part of Indian cinema producing films in the Telugu-language, in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and is centered in the Hyderabad neighbourhood of Film Nagar.

Opening day gross collection
The top 10 Opening Day gross collections are listed below.