Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend has crossed Rs 823.50 crore in worldwide gross in its first six days, stacking a record Monday and a strong Bhai Dooj Tuesday into one of the most commanding opening stretches Hindi cinema has seen.
Nitesh Tiwari’s two-part retelling is no longer simply posting big opening numbers. With Rs 440.45 crore in domestic nett and Rs 297 crore from overseas, it is showing the kind of hold that turns a festive release into a long-running event.
The six-day snapshot
- Day 6 India nett: Rs 94.10 crore
- India nett total: Rs 440.45 crore
- India gross: Rs 526.50 crore
- Overseas gross: Rs 297 crore
- Worldwide gross: Rs 823.50 crore
The Tuesday figure was 12.5 per cent lower than Monday’s Rs 107.50 crore, a normal post-holiday step-down rather than a sign of exhaustion. Across languages, Hindi contributed Rs 76 crore, Kannada Rs 7.75 crore, Telugu Rs 4 crore, Tamil Rs 3.60 crore and Malayalam Rs 2.75 crore, from more than 24,000 shows.
The Monday that changed the conversation
The film’s first Monday is now the highest-grossing first Monday for an Indian film in North America at $1.37 million, about 20.2 per cent ahead of the previous mark. That milestone is more telling because it arrived alongside Godzilla Minus Zero, which held a meaningful share of premium screens in the territory. Ramayana also went past the corresponding first-Monday figures for Dangal and Dunki, two films that had Christmas-holiday timing on their side.
Ticket velocity tells the same story. BookMyShow logged around 1.40 lakh tickets an hour at noon on Monday, its highest hour since it began tracking post-pandemic sales; Tuesday’s pace was still roughly 95,000 tickets an hour at 1 pm.
Why the hold matters
The comparison with Dhurandhar: The Revenge is instructive. That film had collected around Rs 935 crore worldwide by its sixth day, but its day-six gross was approximately Rs 67 crore. Ramayana’s day-six India gross was more than Rs 110 crore, which points to a different shape of run: a broad domestic base across five languages, plus an overseas market that is holding rather than cooling after Diwali.
Produced by Namit Malhotra’s Prime Focus Studios with DNEG and Yash’s Monster Mind Creations, the film stars Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman. It released on November 5, 2026, as the first part of a planned two-film series; the second instalment is scheduled for Diwali 2028.
The immediate test is the second weekend. A film can win Diwali on spectacle; it holds a record when weekday momentum survives the holiday hangover and screens stay with it into week two.
Source: India Today
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