Ajay Devgn's third Drishyam film has grossed Rs 145.46 crore globally in its opening weekend and is now closing in on a spot among Hindi cinema's ten biggest franchises.
Two days, Rs 145.46 crore worldwide. That's where Drishyam The Conclusion stands as of Saturday, according to figures put out by Bollywood Hungama, and it's the kind of number that puts Ajay Devgn's thriller franchise in territory it hasn't touched before.
The India net collection reads Rs 112.98 crore over Friday and Saturday, with a gross of Rs 134.50 crore domestically. Add Rs 10.96 crore from overseas and you get the Rs 145.46 crore global figure. 123telugu's own tally puts the two-day India number slightly higher, at Rs 114 crore nett, with Saturday alone bringing in around Rs 52 crore against Bollywood Hungama's Rs 50.95 crore estimate. Early estimates from different trackers rarely match to the decimal, and this is no exception, but both accounts agree on the broader picture: a Friday opening above Rs 62 crore followed by a Saturday that barely dipped.
That consistency matters more than the exact rupee. Films that open big and then fall off a cliff on day two are common enough in Hindi cinema. Drishyam The Conclusion didn't do that. Holding above Rs 50 crore on a Saturday after a Rs 62 crore Friday is, per Bollywood Hungama, enough to make it the second-fastest Hindi film of 2026 to cross the Rs 100 crore mark in India, trailing only Dhurandhar The Revenge.
Directed by Abhishek Pathak, the film brings back Ajay Devgn as Vijay Salgaonkar alongside Tabu, Shriya Saran, Jaideep Ahlawat and Prakash Raj, closing out the story the first two films built over more than a decade.
The franchise math
Here's where it gets interesting for anyone who tracks these league tables. Before this release, the combined India net of Drishyam and Drishyam 2 stood at Rs 307.67 crore, good for the 21st spot among Hindi franchises by Bollywood Hungama's count. Drishyam The Conclusion's Rs 112.98 crore in two days has already pushed that combined total to Rs 420.65 crore, enough to leapfrog Dhoom and Dhamaal and land around 14th place.
The next franchise in the way is Dabangg at Rs 439.99 crore, a gap the film could close within days at its current pace. The real target, though, is Singham at Rs 509.27 crore, currently holding the No. 10 spot. Bollywood Hungama's own pre-release calculation had pegged Rs 201.60 crore as the amount Drishyam The Conclusion would need to contribute for the series to crack the Top 10. It's already delivered more than half of that in 48 hours.
Sunday numbers will matter here, and so will the trajectory through the first week, since opening weekends tend to tell you less about a film's final tally than the Monday-to-Thursday drop that follows. For a franchise that started with Rs 5.80 crore on its very first day back in the original Drishyam, the jump to a Rs 62 crore opening is the kind of arc trade watchers will keep pointing to. Whether it actually breaks into the Top 10 now depends on how the week ahead plays out, and on whether word of mouth, reportedly strong on social media around the film's twists, holds through the weekdays.
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