Mirzapur box office prediction: Munna Bhaiya effect may power film to ₹25 crore start, bigger than Awarapan 2, Saiyaara
Here's the latest box office buzz making the rounds:
After three seasons spanning almost seven years, the phenomenon that is Mirzapur is coming to the big screen. The movie adaptation of the popular web series is shared to be an origin story that runs parallel to the show’s first season, bringing back many beloved characters and introducing new ones. The buzz for the theatrical rollout is immense, particularly in India's non-metro centres, giving Mirzapur: The Movie a chance to register one of Bollywood’s biggest openings of 2026.
Adding to this, Pankaj Tripathi will reprise his role as Kaleen Bhaiya in Mirzapur. Mirzapur The Movie advance bookings Advance bookings for Mirzapur opened a few days before the scheduled rollout and have picked up pace as the rollout date draws closer. By 10 AM on Thursday, a day before the movie’s rollout, it had sold around 1.4 lakh tickets, grossing ₹ 4 crore rupees for its opening day. Almost all of these earnings are from the Hindi version. The movie is also releasing with a Telugu dub, but that version has sold merely 372 tickets in 15 screens so far, according to Sacnilk. On the ticketing platform BookMyShow, Mirzapur is selling over 2.5K tickets per hour as of Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, The figures are not groundbreaking but solid enough for a movie with no stars, primarily catering to tier-2 and tier-3 centres. Such films, which appeal more to non-metro audiences, tend to see more growth in spot bookings than in advances. That is why the trade remains bullish on Mirzapur The Movie’s opening-day prospects.
Notably, Mirzapur movie was expected to open well ever since its first teaser was rolled out earlier this year. But the buzz has only been increasing. Last week, most trade experts were estimating an ₹ 18-20 crore rupees start for the movie, but now most are revising their estimates upwards. Mirzapur The Movie is now expected to open north of ₹ 22 crore rupees, with many even predicting it to touch the ₹ 25 crore rupees net mark domestically on its first day. If it does manage that, it will be the biggest non-star-led rollout for a Hindi movie ever.
As per the latest buzz, Normally, a ₹ 25+ crore rupees opening in Hindi is the domain of the A-listers or select pan-India stars. Very few actors, apart from the three Khans, Akshay Kumar, and Hrithik Roshan, have managed this consistently. Mirzapur will put the likes of Pankaj Tripathi , Ali Fazal, and Divyenndu in this league. If the movie does manage to earn ₹ 25 crore rupees on its opening day, it will outgross recent sleeper hits such as Saiyaara ( ₹ 22 crore rupees) and Awarapan 2 ( ₹ 21.50 crore rupees).
In further updates, Presented by Amazon MGM Studios and Excel Entertainment, Mirzapur: The Movie is directed by Gurmeet Singh, written by Puneet Krishna, and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the banner of Excel Entertainment. The movie is co-produced by Kassim Jagmagia and Vishal Ramchandani. Mirzapur is set for a theatrical rollout in Hindi and Telugu on 4 September.
On top of that, The movie stars Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi and Divyenndu, while Jitendra Kumar takes over from Vikrant Massey, who played Bablu Pandit in the show. Ravi Kishan, Abhishek Banerjee, Rasika Dugal, Mohitt Maalik, Sheeba Chadha, Rajesh Tailang, Pramod Pathak, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Harshita Shekhar Gaur, Shweta Tripathi, and Sonal S Chauhan round off the cast.
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Movie Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world. Read More
Source: Hindustan Times