Hanuman Ansh mints ₹350 crore at worldwide box office, 175x its budget, beats Peddi, Toxic, Jana Nayagan lifetime hauls
Here's the latest box office buzz making the rounds:
Hanuman Ansh worldwide ticket-window earnings: The juggernaut Hanuman Ansh keeps rolling . The tiny devotional movie, with a shoestring budget and no stars, has emerged as one of the biggest ticket-window success stories in Indian cinema history. On its seventh weekend, the movie crossed the ₹ 350 crore rupees mark at the global ticket-window, a staggering feat given the movie was mounted on a mere ₹ 2 crore rupees budget.
Adding to this, Hanuman Ansh has minted over ₹350 crore rupees at the global ticket-window. Hanuman Ansh ticket-window update Hanuman Ansh did not hit it out of the park right off the bat. The movie had a slow start and was actually written off after its first two weeks in theatres. Hanuman Ansh opened at a paltry ₹ 10 lakh and had collected barely ₹ 1.50 crore rupees in its first two weeks. However, after that, positive word of mouth took over, and the ticket sales shot up. Since its fourth week, Hanuman Ansh has collected over ₹ 60 crore rupees in net at the Indian ticket-window each week. On Monday, its 46th day in theatres, Hanuman Ansh collected a handsome ₹ 4 crore rupees net in India. This took its domestic collection to ₹ 276 crore rupees net ( ₹ 326 crore rupees gross). It is now the fourth-highest-grossing movie in India this year, behind only Dhurandhar 2 , Border 2, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Meanwhile, Hanuman Ansh was rolled out overseas belatedly after its worldwide distribution rights were snapped up by Hombale Films earlier this month. In the three weeks it has been running overseas, the movie has grossed $2.8 million. This takes its worldwide gross to ₹ 352 crore rupees after 46 days.
Notably, The small movie has now entered the top 3 highest-grossing Indian films for 2026. Over the last five days, it has shot up from outside the top 10 to the top 3, barely losing any momentum. Over the weekend, Hanuman Ansh surpassed the lifetime ticket-window hauls of several pan-India films, including Vijay’s Jana Nayagan ( ₹ 324 crore rupees), Yash’s Toxic ( ₹ 341 crore rupees) and Ram Charan’s Peddi ( ₹ 342 crore rupees). It now has its sights set on Bollywood smash hit Border 2, which collected over ₹ 450 crore rupees worldwide earlier this year.
As per the latest buzz, Written and directed by Vishal Chaturvedi, Hanuman Ansh follows a grieving young man, Lakshminarayan, who embarks on a spiritual journey in search of God after his mother's death. As he travels across North India in search of answers to life, death, and human suffering, he eventually becomes the revered saint Neem Karoli Baba .
In further updates, The movie stars Shobhinaw Satyaa in the lead role alongside Vihaan Shedge, Chandan K Anand, Purnima Tiwari, Anil Rastogi, Gulshan Pandey and Bhagvandas Patel.
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Source: Hindustan Times