Ramayana: Part 1 has set the biggest first Monday in Bollywood history. The Nitesh Tiwari epic collected a final Rs 107.50 crore net in India on Monday, November 9 — its fifth day in cinemas — taking its five-day India net total to Rs 346.35 crore, according to the final trade figures confirmed during yesterday’s publishing. The previous record for a first Monday, held by Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2 at Rs 60 crore, was beaten by nearly 80 percent.
The scale of the day is underlined by the language split: close to Rs 100 crore came from Hindi alone, with more than Rs 107 crore from all languages combined, according to MensXP. Morning shows had already recorded occupancy of 39.9 percent, while afternoon occupancy surged to 73.3 percent, according to Bollywood Hungama’s live reporting during the day — and the evening shows kept building from there.
A Monday that beat most opening days
To put the number in context: a Rs 107.50 crore Monday is bigger than the entire opening day of most major Bollywood releases. The film’s advance bookings alone had been 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, according to Koimoi’s reporting cited yesterday.
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. Monday then surged past both days, a pattern almost unheard of for a fifth day in cinemas.
Worldwide: Rs 664 crore in five days
Worldwide, the film has collected an unprecedented Rs 663.90 crore in five days, according to MensXP, with trade tracker Sacnilk putting the figure at around ₹664 crore through Monday, according to Screen Realm. The film is the second-highest-grossing film in the world for the weekend, behind only Godzilla Minus Zero, on Comscore figures reported by Bollywood Hungama.
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. Advance bookings for Tuesday were already strong, at Rs 39.37 crore gross, with 984,679 tickets booked, according to TrackTollywood — suggesting the record run is not finished yet.
