Eleven days before its Diwali opening, Ramayana has enough locked-in demand to be a serious box-office event, but the overnight rate has cooled. The film, directed by Nitesh Tiwari and headlined by Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, opens worldwide on November 5, Diwali 2026. Yash also produces alongside Namit Malhotra, so the advance is being read as both an audience signal and a test of the producers’ bet on a long-gestating mythological spectacle.
Where the opening day stands
As of 12:30 pm on October 25, the film’s day-one advance gross stood at ₹8.89 crore, excluding blocked seats. That comes from 1.58 lakh tickets sold across 4,568 shows, or roughly ₹7.5 crore in net collections. Over the previous 24 hours, gross pre-sales rose just 12.10%, adding under ₹1 crore net. That is a clear step down from the 58% surge reported the day before.
- Delhi-NCR: ₹1.78 crore gross — highest among cities
- Mumbai: ₹1.23 crore gross
- Bengaluru: ₹1.22 crore gross
Four shows are already houseful: three in Hyderabad and one in Ahmedabad. That suggests concentrated pockets of demand, but the wider national advance is still tilted toward a few metros.
The record that sets the bar
The all-time opening-day advance benchmark in this tracking is Dhurandhar 2’s ₹54 crore gross. Ramayana would need to add almost ₹44 crore more to overtake it. With 11 days left, that means an average of ₹5 crore per day in fresh additions.
That daily pace is far above the current 24-hour growth. It is not unreachable — Diwali bookings typically quicken once national chains open full capacity and promotion peaks — but it leaves little room for another soft day.
Why the pace matters
For our readers, an advance-booking number is not just a score; it is an early map of demand. The metro skew shows where intent is already locked. The next test is whether the Hindi heartland and mass centres follow as the release nears. If the film can lift its run rate to ₹5 crore a day, it will enter release week with the record in sight; if the pace holds at weekend levels, it will open big but likely below the benchmark.
Source: Koimoi
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