Nine days is all it took. Mirzapur The Movie has now pulled in Rs 171.45 crore net in India, enough to slide past Dhamaal 4's entire theatrical run and claim the No. 4 spot among Bollywood's biggest earners of 2026.

The numbers tell a fairly clean story. The film opened to Rs 148 crore net in its first week, which was already a strong showing for a franchise spin-off carrying this much fan baggage. Instead of the usual second-weekend fade, it added Rs 13.50 crore on day 9 alone, taking the domestic gross past Rs 204 crore. Add the overseas kitty, up by Rs 4 crore on the same day to a total of Rs 42 crore, and the worldwide number now stands at Rs 246.19 crore.

Dhamaal 4, for context, wrapped up its own run at Rs 167.88 crore net domestic and Rs 230.17 crore worldwide. The Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Jaaved Jaaferi and Riteish Deshmukh comedy had a good year by its own standards. Mirzapur has simply eaten past it in a week and a half.

That still leaves three films ahead of it on the 2026 leaderboard. Dhurandhar 2 headlined by Ranveer Singh, the Sunny Deol and Varun Dhawan-led Border 2, and Akshay Kumar's Bhooth Bangla currently occupy the top three slots. Whether Mirzapur can close that gap depends entirely on how the second weekend behaves once the initial nostalgia rush cools off. Films built on returning characters tend to front-load their audience early. What happens over the next fortnight will say more about the film's real staying power than the opening ten days did.

Part of the pull here is obvious. Pankaj Tripathi is back as Kaleen Bhaiya, Ali Fazal returns as Guddu Pandit, Divyenndu is Munna Bhaiya again. But the film has also had to manage a cast change that could have gone badly. Jitendra Kumar steps into Bablu Pandit, a role Vikrant Massey played across the show's run, and Ravi Kishan arrives as a new antagonist, Babban Yadav, giving the franchise a villain who isn't leaning entirely on old plotlines.

Director Gurmmeet Singh and writer Puneet Krishna have bet that audiences would show up for familiar faces even with a fresh face or two mixed in. Nine days of collections suggest that bet has paid off so far. Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under Excel Entertainment, the film released September 4 and has now settled into a run that looks less like a one-week spike and more like something with legs.

The question from here is simple. Can it close the distance to Bhooth Bangla before its theatrical window shuts, or does it settle for fourth?