The Excel Entertainment crime thriller has pulled in 327.37 crore gross globally in 24 days, edging past a film that spent years as a benchmark for cause-driven cinema.
Twenty-four days in, and Mirzapur: The Movie has quietly done something none of its OTT-to-theatre cousins have managed. According to figures reported by Koimoi, the film's worldwide gross now stands at 327.37 crore, enough to nudge past The Kashmir Files' lifetime global haul of 326.95 crore.
That's not a small thing to beat. The Kashmir Files ran for years as the reference point for a certain kind of theatrical success story, a film that kept selling tickets long after conventional wisdom said it should have stopped. Mirzapur getting past it in under a month says something about how much goodwill the franchise carried from its OTT life into cinemas.
Excel Entertainment, the Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani banner behind the film, now has its highest-grossing title ever on its hands, per Koimoi. Gurmmeet Singh directed the crime thriller, which arrived in theatres carrying four seasons of streaming baggage and, evidently, four seasons of built-in audience.
The overseas number is doing real work here too. Koimoi puts the international gross at 55.5 crore, which is a healthy chunk of the total for a film that isn't a pan-India spectacle in the traditional sense. Domestically, the film has held up through its fourth weekend without the kind of collapse that usually hits Hindi films by week three.
Budget was 90 crore. On that math, Koimoi's report has the film at a return on investment north of 155%, which is the kind of number that gets a super hit tag without much argument. Profit margin, by the same reckoning, sits above 155% too. Whichever way you slice it, this isn't a film limping to a respectable finish. It's one still climbing.
The next number everyone's watching is 350 crore. At 327.37 crore after 24 days, Mirzapur is close enough to the 330 crore mark that it should get there without much drama. Whether it can stretch to 350 crore worldwide depends on how the fifth week holds, and weekday collections have historically been where films like this either coast or stall.
North and Central India have been carrying the domestic run, Koimoi's numbers suggest, with steady screenings rather than a single explosive weekend driving the tally. That's a slower kind of box office story than the opening-weekend record chase, but it's arguably a more durable one. Franchises built on OTT loyalty don't always translate to ticket sales. This one has, for over three weeks running.
The question now isn't whether Mirzapur clears The Kashmir Files. That's done. It's whether the fifth week gives Excel Entertainment a round 350 crore number to point to, or whether the film settles just under it as weekday footfalls thin out.
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