Eight days in, the Mirzapur film is sitting close to Rs 220 crore worldwide, and trade trackers reckon it's only a matter of time before it clears Rs 250 crore. That's a big number for a film that cost Rs 90 crore to make.

The production, which reworks the web series into a new screenplay under director Gurmmeet Singh, opened on September 4 in Hindi and Telugu. Add in roughly Rs 10 crore of promotional spend and the total outlay comes to about Rs 100 crore, according to trade estimates. The break-even bar was set at Rs 100 crore in domestic share and Rs 200 crore gross, and the film reportedly blew past that inside its first week itself.

Day-wise numbers put out by trade sources show a familiar pattern: a big opening, an even bigger Saturday, and then the usual weekday slide. Day one brought in around Rs 31 crore, day two jumped to Rs 38.5 crore, and day three peaked at Rs 43 crore. From there it settled into a steady decline, Rs 20 crore on day four, Rs 18 crore on day five, Rs 15 crore on day six and Rs 12.5 crore on day seven, taking the seven-day domestic tally past Rs 177 crore.

Overseas numbers have added meaningfully to the pile too. North America, the UK and the Gulf markets together brought in close to Rs 35 crore, pushing the worldwide gross to around Rs 212 crore by the end of the first week, per trade sources. Day eight, the start of the second weekend run, is projected to add another Rs 10 crore or so, which would put the film at roughly Rs 220 crore and keep it on pace for that Rs 250 crore mark.

What's notable is how uneven the language split has been. The Hindi version is doing virtually all the work here. The Telugu release, despite going out on close to 2,000 screens across 1,600 locations with around 6,000 shows nationwide by the second week, hasn't found the same pull. Trade sources describe its response as underwhelming, a reminder that the Mirzapur brand, built almost entirely on Hindi-language streaming, doesn't automatically travel south just because the film does.

The cast reassembles most of the show's familiar faces: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Divyenndu Sharma, Abhishek Banerjee, Ravi Kishan, Jitendra Kumar, Rasika Dugal, Shreya Pilgaonkar and Shweta Tripathi. Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani produced under the Excel Entertainment banner, with Amazon Prime Video presenting the theatrical run, a slightly unusual arrangement for a streamer putting weight behind a big screen release rather than a straight OTT drop.

Whether the film actually gets to Rs 250 crore worldwide depends on how the second weekend holds, and whether the Telugu numbers pick up at all once word of mouth settles. Trade watchers seem confident. The Telugu screens, for now, tell a different story.