On its 31st day in cinemas, Hanuman Ansh made ₹22.75 crore. That's the single biggest day the film has had since it opened, and according to figures reported by Filmibeat Kannada, it's enough to knock Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar off two separate box office perches.

The numbers are strange enough to repeat twice. Hanuman Ansh released on August 7 across just 25 screens and made ₹10 lakh on day one. Week one: ₹1.08 crore. Week two: an even quieter ₹40 lakh. Then, from the third Sunday, something shifted. Daily collections crossed ₹1 crore and kept climbing, even with Sunny Deol's Batwara 1947 and Emraan Hashmi's Awarapan 2 both releasing around Independence Day. Week three brought in ₹10.40 crore. Week four, per the same report, brought in ₹61 crore.

Chasing down Dhurandhar

Dhurandhar, Aditya Dhar's film from last year, had set the bar for late-innings box office runs. On its own 31st day it made ₹12.75 crore, a record for a fifth Sunday. Hanuman Ansh's ₹22.75 crore, from 7,077 shows nationwide, blows past that. Its fifth weekend total, over ₹49 crore, also clears Dhurandhar's ₹33.25 crore mark from the same stretch. Saturday alone (day 30) brought ₹16.50 crore from 6,055 shows, and Sunday jumped 37.9 percent over that.

The timing makes the comparison sharper. Mirzapur: The Movie opened big the same Friday, running 11,344 shows and pulling in ₹36 crore that day. Hanuman Ansh, on its fifth Friday with none of that promotional weight behind it, still made ₹10 crore, a gap of roughly ₹13 crore against a film with vastly more screens and a much bigger release push.

No stars, no ad spend, no slowdown

Directed by Vishal Chaturvedi and led by Shobhinav Satya, Hanuman Ansh tells the story of the Himalayan saint Neem Karoli Baba. It carries no star cast and, by most trade accounts, next to no marketing budget. Made for a reported ₹2 crore, it has now crossed ₹144.40 crore in gross collections and ₹122.13 crore net over 31 days, putting its profit past ₹120 crore. That's roughly 61 times what it cost to make.

Films built around religious or devotional subjects have found sleeper audiences in Indian cinemas before, but rarely with a curve this inverted, cheap and quiet at first, then getting bigger with every passing week instead of fading. Whether that holds is the open question. The film is set for an international release on September 11 through Hombale Films, taking it beyond the domestic circuit where it's spent the last month quietly rewriting someone else's records.

These figures come from a single trade tracker's report and haven't yet been cross-checked against other box office aggregators, so treat the exact crore counts as directional until wider confirmation lands.