₹156 crore on a Monday, beating Dhurandhar 2, outpacing Pushpa 2: Ramayana's incredible box office comeback in numbers
Here's the latest box office buzz making the rounds:
Mondays are traditionally not a movie’s best friend at the ticket-window. Most films around the world rollout on Fridays and do their best business over the weekend. Mondays are when the collections drop. Over the last few years, with shorter theatrical runs, the Monday tests have become sharper and the drops bigger. That is why whenever a movie earns big on Monday, it is a sign of a healthy lifetime run. Of course, it is easier for word of mouth to propel smaller films like The Kashmir Files or Hanuman Ansh , but every once in a while, a movie like Ramayana comes along. The Nitesh Tiwari movie made the most of post-Diwali holidays to mount the biggest Monday ever seen in Indian cinema history, with a collection so gargantuan that it dwarfed even the Baahubalis and Dhurandhars of the world.
Adding to this, Ranbir Kapoor plays Lord Rama in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana. Ramayana’s manic Monday On Monday, its fifth day in theatres, Ramayana finally breathed free as the Diwali festivities ended, but the holidays did not. The movie saw a spectacular 91% jump in domestic collections. It collected ₹ 107.50 crore rupees net in India on the day, a new record for Mondays. Prior to this, the record belonged to Baahubali 2, which collected ₹ 80 crore rupees net in all languages on its first Monday.
Meanwhile, In Bollywood, the record belonged to Dhurandhar 2, which collected ₹ 60 crore rupees net on its first Monday earlier this year. Ramayana took that record, too. However, both Baahubali 2 and Dhurandhar 2 had their first Monday hauls on a non-holiday. Ramayana benefitted from the Govardhan Puja holiday on its first Monday. The previous festive Monday record for an Indian movie was held by Salman Khan’s Tiger 3. The 2023 movie collected ₹ 58 crore rupees net on Diwali, a Monday.
Notably, Pushpa 2: The Rule emerged as the biggest opening movie in Indian cinema history in 2024. On its rollout day, the Allu Arjun smash hit raked in ₹ 164 crore rupees net in India. During the day, the movie sold 1.07 lakh tickets per hour on BookMyShow. It remained the only movie to have a lakh tickets per hour on the platform till Dhurandhar 2 joined in this year. Ramayana beat both these films on Monday. Around noon, the movie was selling 1.4 lakh tickets per hour, a new record for BookMyShow.
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In further updates, Ramayana collected ₹ 107.50 crore rupees net ( ₹ 131 crore rupees gross) in India on Monday, its single-largest collection since rollout. Overseas, the Ranbir Kapoor and Yash-starrer did not have the benefit of a post-Diwali holiday, but it still brought in $2.7 million from international markets. This gave the movie a single-day haul of ₹ 156 crore rupees on Monday, one of the highest for any Indian movie on a non-rollout weekday.
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. The movie has collected ₹ 663 crore rupees gross worldwide in five days so far, and will be looking to cross the ₹ 1000 crore rupees mark by its second weekend.
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
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