Ramayana box office collection day 5 (updated live): No Monday blues; Ranbir Kapoor, Yash film set for Bollywood's biggest Monday, races to ₹300 crore
Here's the latest box office buzz making the rounds:
With the Diwali festivities behind it, Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana finally seems to be recovering at the ticket-window. The epic had a good but not great start at the ticket-window on its opening weekend. However, its first Monday now gives the movie its best chance for a healthier long run. Given the post-Diwali holidays, Ramayana is sure to buck the trend of a drop on the first Monday and is actually on course to register its best day at the domestic ticket-window, and arguably the biggest Monday in Indian cinema history.
Adding to this, Ramayana is seeing a boost in collections after Diwali. Ramayana ticket-window update Ramayana began with houseful shows on day 1, netting ₹ 64.85 crore rupees net in India on its opening day. The figure was low given the movie’s scale, but it was still the fourth-highest opening in Bollywood history. The movie then fell slightly before recovering, ending its opening weekend at ₹ 239 crore rupees net in India. This included a Saturday haul of ₹ 69.80 crore rupees net, the movie’s best single day so far.
Meanwhile, But with Diwali now over, the movie is expected to see two bumper days on the Govardhan Puja (Monday) and Bhai Dooj (Tuesday) holidays. Advance booking is indicative of that. Ramayana sold over 14 lakh tickets in pre-sales for Monday, grossing over ₹ 50 crore rupees. This is the movie’s highest single-day advance booking gross so far. This means the movie is poised for its biggest single-day at the domestic ticket-window.
Notably, By 4 PM on Monday, Ramayana had grossed ₹ 68 crore rupees net in India, storming past the ₹ 250-crore rupees mark and taking its domestic haul to ₹ 307 crore rupees . The only worrisome factor for the movie is that its earnings have come largely on the back of some good performance by the Hindi version. Despite Yash’s presence as Ravana, the Kannada version hasn’t quite broken the bank yet.
As per the latest buzz, However, on Monday, Ramayana was selling 1.37 lakh tickets per hour on BookMyShow around noon, the highest since the platform started keeping records post-pandemic. Only two other Indian films have ever breached the 1 lakh-ticket-per-hour mark prior to this: Dhurandhar 2 (1.08 lakh) and Pushpa 2 (1.07 lakh).
In further updates, Dhurandhar 2 holds the record for the best Monday collection by an Indian movie. The Ranveer Singh-starrer minted ₹ 60 crore rupees net on its first Monday earlier this year. Ramayana easily left this mark in the dust. But it’s important to note that Dhurandhar 2’s earnings came from a non-holiday Monday. Before Ramayan, the record for the biggest Monday on a holiday belonged to Salman Khan’s Tiger 3, which collected ₹ 58 crore rupees on its first Monday, the day of Diwali 2023.
On top of that, Produced by Namit Malhotra’s Prime Focus Studios in collaboration with DNEG and Yash’s Monster Mind Creations, Ramayana is the first part of a duology. The movie stars Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana, and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman. The first part rolled out worldwide on November 5, 2026, while the second part is set for rollout on Diwali 2028.
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