Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, has crossed ₹20.15 crore in day-one advance booking in India as of November 1, 5 PM. With roughly three and a half days left before its November 5 Diwali release, the figure is a strong start—but not yet the record benchmark the title is expected to chase.
Where the numbers stand
The film has sold more than 4.54 lakh tickets across 13,256 active shows, for a day-one gross advance of ₹20.15 crore excluding blocked seats. The net advance figure is ₹17.18 crore. Of those shows, 42 are houseful and 12 are fully sold.
The 2026 leaderboard
Those numbers place Ramayana third among the biggest day-one advance grossers for a Hindi release in 2026. The gap above it is significant:
- Dhurandhar 2 – ₹53 crore
- Drishyam 3 – ₹31.65 crore
- Ramayana – ₹20.15 crore (with 3.5 days to go)
- Border 2 – ₹12.5 crore
- Mirzapur The Movie – ₹9.19 crore
Advance bookings usually accelerate in the final 48 hours, so the leaderboard may move. The question is not whether Ramayana will open big, but whether it can close the gap with the two benchmark openers by November 5.
Karnataka, Bengaluru and the Yash factor
The regional data shows where the heat is. Karnataka is the biggest state for day-one advance, contributing ₹3.96 crore gross from 78,500 tickets. Bengaluru is the top city in the update, with ₹3.11 crore gross from 52,620 tickets across language formats. That points to the drawing power of Yash, who plays Ravana, in his home market.
The houseful map reinforces the pattern. Telangana leads with 22 of the 42 houseful shows, followed by Gujarat with 11; Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal hold the rest of the listed single-digit counts.
What the final days will test
Ramayana is already the sixth-biggest advance opener of Ranbir Kapoor’s career, a useful marker but not the headline the film is built for. For an industry that reads pre-sales as early evidence, the next four days will test whether a faith-driven, multi-language epic can convert regional intensity—especially in Karnataka, Telangana and Gujarat—into a pan-India surge. That makes the final pre-sale window less a verdict than a direction-finder. If the houseful count climbs sharply and the gap to Drishyam 3 narrows, the opening-day conversation will change; if it stays regional, the total will still be large, but the benchmark will remain out of reach.
Source: Koimoi
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