Ramayana day 7: India haul hits ₹469 crore; ₹500 crore next
Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi's epic holds strong on its first working day after Diwali and is closing in on the ₹500 crore domestic club.
After six record-smashing days, Ramayana faced the question every big festive release dreads: what happens when the holidays end? For the Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash epic, the answer came fast on Wednesday — the audience kept coming.
Day 7: A non-holiday test
By 3 PM on its seventh day, the Nitesh Tiwari film had added more than ₹29 crore net at the domestic box office. That pushed its India total past ₹450 crore to around ₹469 crore, according to Hindustan Times. The hold matters because it is the first time the film is playing without Govardhan Pooja, Bhai Dooj or the Diwali break behind it.
The opening frame has been a showcase of momentum: a ₹64.85 crore opening day, a ₹239 crore opening weekend, then ₹107 crore on Monday and ₹94 crore on Tuesday. Those Monday and Tuesday numbers, the report notes, are the highest ever for Indian cinema.
The dubbed versions are now paying off
Early days were carried by the Hindi version, but the regional mix has changed. The four dubbed versions have together crossed ₹100 crore net in India, making Ramayana the first Hindi film to hit that mark through dubs alone.
That is a useful reminder that a pan-India release is not only about the opening weekend. As the Hindi run stabilises after the festive peak, the dubbed versions are now doing their share of the heavy lifting.
What the next 48 hours could rewrite
The film is expected to enter the ₹500 crore domestic club by Wednesday night or early Thursday. Until Pathaan opened that door three years ago, no Hindi film had reached the milestone; Ramayana is doing it inside a single week.
Here is the wider context for fans and the industry:
- ₹469 crore: the domestic net total by 3 PM on day seven.
- ₹107 crore and ₹94 crore: Monday and Tuesday collections, both all-time single-day records.
- ₹100 crore plus: net earnings from four dubbed versions, a first for a Hindi film.
- ₹500 crore: the next milestone, expected by Thursday.
- ₹1600 crore: the reported budget the duology must eventually recover.
On Thursday, the film will also look to overtake the lifetime India collections of Gadar 2, Pathaan and Animal. Those are exactly the kind of legacy numbers that matter for a film whose first part is also the most expensive ever made in India.
The road to profitability is still long. Produced by Prime Focus Studios in collaboration with DNEG and Yash’s Monster Mind Creations, Ramayana is the first half of a planned duology; the second part is slated for Diwali 2028. A ₹1600 crore budget is a mountain, and the opening week only begins the climb.
Source: Hindustan Times
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