Ramayana: Part 1 has recorded the biggest Monday in Bollywood history. The Nitesh Tiwari epic collected Rs 107.50 crore net in India on Monday, November 9 — its fifth day in cinemas — according to Sacnilk figures reported by Times Now, taking its five-day India net total to Rs 346.35 crore. That smashes the all-time first-Monday record of Rs 60 crore net held by Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2.
Morning shows recorded occupancy of 39.9 percent, while afternoon occupancy surged to 73.3 percent, according to Bollywood Hungama’s afternoon report, which had the film at Rs 59.88 crore net by 2:30 pm IST. Hindi continues to drive the business, contributing Rs 48.64 crore — around 81.2 percent of the day’s collections at that point — with the 3D formats accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total.
The trackers disagreed — until the final landed
As with every day of this release, the trackers did not agree while the day was still running, and today the gap was unusually large. Bollywood Hungama had the film at Rs 59.88 crore net by 2:30 pm IST; TrackTollywood’s live tracker put Day 5 gross at Rs 74.90 crore as of 3:05 pm IST, from 16,782 shows at 57.7 percent occupancy; and BoxOfficeIndia24 put the Day 5 net figure at Rs 97.43 crore by 3:00 pm IST, with a cumulative Rs 328.43 crore. The final Sacnilk figure — Rs 107.50 crore net for the day, Rs 346.35 crore net in five days — came in above every one of those afternoon estimates.
Past Dhurandhar 2’s Monday record
Whatever the tracker, the film was positioned to challenge Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2, which holds the all-time biggest first-Monday net collection in Bollywood at Rs 60 crore, according to Koimoi — and the final figure has now passed it by nearly Rs 48 crore. Ramayana’s advance bookings alone were worth Rs 53 crore gross — Rs 45 crore net in pre-sales, with more than 1.42 million tickets sold across 25,300 shows — before a single walk-in customer arrived on Monday.
Sunday, Day 4, delivered Rs 66.13 crore gross in India, according to TrackTollywood, a 19.8 percent drop from Saturday’s Rs 82.47 crore — the Diwali and Lakshmi Puja evening trimming the night shows, as trade had predicted. The four-day India gross stands at Rs 280.54 crore on that tracker’s count. Advance bookings for Tuesday are already strong, at Rs 39.37 crore gross, with 984,679 tickets booked.
A film that keeps growing
The Nitesh Tiwari epic, starring Ranbir Kapoor as Rama, Yash as Ravana and Sai Pallavi as Sita, runs 3 hours 15 minutes and is playing in five languages. Its reported budget of around Rs 900 crore makes it one of the most expensive Indian films ever made, and the second part is already scheduled for Diwali 2027.
Monday closed at Rs 107.50 crore net — the biggest first Monday in Bollywood history — with a five-day India net total of Rs 346.35 crore. The audience is still growing.
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