Thirteen days in, and Mirzapur the movie is still finding an audience. Trade estimates put its 13th-day India collection at Rs 4 to 5 crore, which would push the film's worldwide gross to the doorstep of Rs 300 crore.

The numbers so far, according to trade sources cited by Telugu Filmibeat, tell a fairly steady story. After a front-loaded opening week, the film pulled in Rs 11.5 crore on day 8, jumped to Rs 16.5 crore on day 9, held at Rs 15.5 crore on day 10, then settled into the Rs 6.5 crore range for days 11 and 12. That takes its 12-day India net to Rs 198 crore and its gross to Rs 233 crore, per the same trade tracking.

Overseas has added roughly Rs 50 crore on top of that, bringing the worldwide gross to about Rs 283 crore before the 13th day's numbers are even added in. With that day expected to bring in another Rs 4-5 crore, the film should cross the 300 crore mark in the next couple of days, if trade projections hold.

This is a film that had a lot riding on it simply because of where it came from. Turning a long-running, deeply loved web series into a theatrical release is a gamble that could easily have gone the other way, with fans either staying home to catch it on Amazon Prime or feeling like the big screen added nothing. Instead, Mirzapur has done the opposite of what a lot of streaming-to-screen adaptations manage. It found an audience willing to pay for tickets to watch Pankaj Tripathi, Rasika Dugal, Divyendu Sharma and Ali Fazal all over again, this time in cinemas.

The film, directed by Gurvinder Singh and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani with Amazon Prime's backing, was made on a reported budget of Rs 100 crore. Its break-even target was pegged at Rs 100 crore in distributor share and Rs 200 crore gross. Trade sources say it blew past that in its very first week, meaning everything collected since has been straight profit for its makers.

It's currently running across roughly 1,450 locations and more than 1,700 screens, with around 3,200 shows a day still being scheduled for a film in its second full week, a sign that exhibitors aren't pulling back on it yet.

The question now is how long the second-week momentum lasts once the weekday grind sets in properly. A 300 crore worldwide tally would put Mirzapur firmly among this year's bigger Hindi hits, streaming pedigree and all. Whether it can stretch meaningfully further into a third week, or whether the drop from Rs 16.5 crore to Rs 6.5 crore between days 9 and 11 is the early sign of a slide, should become clear by the coming weekend.