Seventy days after release, Hanuman Ansh is still moving the box-office record books. The Hindi devotional drama finished its tenth week with 10.95 crore net in India, the biggest tenth-week total ever recorded, according to Koimoi. The run has lifted its all-language India tally to 338.98 crore net, or 400.09 crore gross.
Day 70 and the record that came with it
On its 70th day, the film earned 65 lakh, a 48% fall from day 69’s 1.25 crore. The dip was widely anticipated after Hanuman Ansh lost a significant number of shows to Jailer 2. Even so, the week ended above the week before.
- Hanuman Ansh – 10.95 crore
- Kantara – 1.45 crore
- Dhurandhar 2 – 1.45 crore
- The Odyssey – 1 crore
- Uri: The Surgical Strike – 95 lakh
- Dhurandhar – 72 lakh
The 9.5-crore gap over the previous best is unusually wide for a tail-end record. Hanuman Ansh did not just break the tenth-week benchmark; it lapped it.
What the weekly trend reveals
The film’s week-wise curve is not a conventional front-loaded one. It opened with 1.08 crore in week one and just 40 lakh in week two before the run caught on. Week three jumped to 10.4 crore, week four to 61 crore, and the film peaked at 90.25 crore in week five. Week nine and week ten have each stayed above 10 crore.
What makes the tenth-week record notable is that it was not built on the original version alone. The release of the Telugu version during the week lifted demand and pushed week ten from a likely decline into a small rise over week nine’s 10.65 crore.
Why this record matters
Hanuman Ansh was reportedly made on a budget of 1.8 crore. Its current India net collection of 338.98 crore means the film has become a reference point for what a small-budget devotional drama can achieve once it catches on. The tenth-week record is a tail-end metric, but it is also a longevity metric: audiences were still buying tickets more than two months in, well after the opening-weekend marketing had faded.
The previous tenth-week best was 1.45 crore, held jointly by Kantara and Dhurandhar 2. Hanuman Ansh did not merely edge past that number; it beat it by 9.5 crore. That is a multiple, not a marginal improvement.
Context for Hindi cinema’s record keepers
For readers who track the history of Hindi cinema, the bigger takeaway is that the long-tail phase is becoming a legitimate story in itself. The all-time list now reads: Hanuman Ansh at 10.95 crore, Kantara and Dhurandhar 2 at 1.45 crore each, The Odyssey at 1 crore, and Uri: The Surgical Strike at 95 lakh.
That is the kind of detail that will come up when this film is discussed years from now. The 70-day total is not just a milestone; it is a marker of how Hindi cinema’s audience can keep a modest film alive long after the initial release window.
Source: Koimoi
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