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Opening weekends, footfalls, budget maths and the numbers behind the noise.
Priyadarshan's psychological thriller reuniting Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan is winning over first-day audiences online, a disconnect from its muted box office start.
Haiwaan's Rs 3 crore opening day puts it among the worst starts of both Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan's careers, trailing Sunny Deol's Batwara 1947 despite that film's own disastrous run.
Haiwaan, starring Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar, opened to roughly Rs 3 crore on Friday, trade estimates say, a start trade watchers are calling disastrous given the film's budget and star power.
Bethlehem Kudumba Unit has crossed Rs 135 crore net in India, overtaking Vaazha 2 to rank third among Malayalam cinema's biggest grossers, with Manjummel Boys next in its sights.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day added Rs 3.25 crore in Week 6, taking its Indian net cume past Rs 481 crore and gross past Rs 582 crore, with a Rs 650 crore finish now in sight.
Bethlehem Kudumba Unit has crossed Vaazha 2's lifetime total to become the third highest-grossing Malayalam film ever in India, with Manjummel Boys and Lokah Chapter 1 next in its sights.
Mandaadi added a decent Rs 5 crore range on day two after a Rs 6.55 crore worldwide opening, but the Rs 70 crore film needs Rs 150 crore gross to turn a profit, trade sources say.
Karthi and SJ Suryah's Sardar 2 opened to Rs 5.30 crore across India on day one, per trade estimates, with Tamil Nadu doing the heavy lifting while word of mouth stays split going into the weekend.
Hanuman Ansh has banked Rs 163.13 crore net after five weeks, powered by a record-breaking week-five haul of Rs 90.25 crore on a budget of just Rs 1.8 crore.
Mirzapur: The Movie has crossed Rs 210 crore worldwide, per Bollywood Hungama's latest figures, with India contributing Rs 173.67 crore gross and overseas adding Rs 36.38 crore to Excel Entertainment's theatrical bet on the franchise.
Mirzapur The Movie has crossed Rs 150 crore net domestically in its first week, registering Bollywood's third biggest opening week of 2026 and comfortably clearing its reported Rs 90 crore budget.
The English version of Yash's Toxic collected just Rs 3.16 lakh across its opening week in India, with daily numbers falling into four figures before the print was pulled on September 11.
Haiwaan, reuniting Akshay Kumar with director Priyadarshan, booked 44.17K tickets and Rs 1.03 crore gross in final day one advance sales, despite a squeeze on screens from Mirzapur The Movie and Hanuman Ansh.
Mirzapur: The Movie has crossed Rs 200 crore worldwide gross in seven days, with a modest 15.9% Day 7 drop suggesting the Prime Video spinoff still has legs at the box office.
Hanuman Ansh, made for roughly Rs 3 crore, has crossed Rs 190 crore gross in India after 35 days, driven by word of mouth that kicked in only in its third week, trade reports say.
The trailer for Drishyam: The Conclusion crossed 100 million views in 24 hours and trended at number one on YouTube, as fans reacted to Ajay Devgn's new adversaries played by Jaideep Ahlawat and Prakash Raj.
Yash's domestic box office tally since the pandemic has crossed 1100 crore net, driven almost entirely by KGF Chapter 2, even as his comeback film Toxic heads for a sub-250 crore finish.
Advance booking for Priyadarshan's Haiwaan, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, is running soft with major chains under 10,000 tickets sold, putting the opening day near Rs. 5 crore at best.
Haiwaan, reuniting Akshay Kumar with director Priyadarshan and co-star Saif Ali Khan after 17 years, opens September 11 facing a screen squeeze from Hanuman Ansh and Mirzapur The Movie, trackers say.
Hanuman Ansh broke the usual midweek slump by collecting more on its fifth Wednesday than its fifth Monday, according to trade estimates cited by Pinkvilla, with the film's total now nearing Rs 150 crore.
Avengers: Doomsday has reportedly crossed $50 million in single-day North American advance sales, an unprecedented presale mark, as it heads toward a December 18 collision with Dune 3 and, a week later, Jumanji: Open World.
Mirzapur: The Movie has crossed ₹190 crore worldwide in six days, and PVR Cinemas marked the milestone with AI-generated 80s-style portraits of the cast that fans are now ranking in the comments.
Mirzapur The Movie has grossed ₹202 crore worldwide in six days, per Koimoi, making it Bollywood's sixth highest-grossing film of 2026 and putting Awarapan 2's ₹217.52 crore total within reach.
Mirzapur The Movie earned ₹12.58 crore on day 6, taking its net total to ₹143.22 crore and overtaking Welcome To The Jungle to become Bollywood's eighth-highest grosser of 2026 in India.
Hanuman Ansh crossed 153 crore net on day 34, pulling ahead of the Hindi-dubbed Toxic to become 2026's sixth highest grosser, with the 200 crore mark now firmly in sight.
Hanuman Ansh, once written off after a Rs 10 lakh opening day, has now crossed Rs 150 crore net in India on Day 34, riding a fifth-week surge that peaked at Rs 22.75 crore on a Sunday.
Advance bookings for Karthi's Sardar 2 and Soori's Mandaadi have turned Friday's Tamil release slate into a closer fight than expected, with Sardar 2 trailing its smaller rival in its own home state.
Sardar 2, the big-budget sequel to Karthi's 2022 hit, has opened with all-India advance bookings under Rs 3 crore, with Tamil Nadu numbers particularly weak ahead of its theatrical release.
Mirzapur: The Movie has crossed 181 crore worldwide in five days, sitting just short of the 200 crore mark and Welcome To The Jungle's 2026 tally, with a 90 crore budget already turning a healthy profit.
Three months before its December 18 release, Avengers: Doomsday has pulled in $50 million in domestic pre-sales, Disney's CFO announced, with premium format demand driving most of the early rush.