Nineteen days in, Irumudi refuses to slow down. Ravi Teja's devotional action thriller pulled in 2.25 crore on its third Tuesday, moving 32,000 tickets through BookMyShow, according to Koimoi's tracking of ticketing data. That's the fourth-highest third-Tuesday sale on record, and it's enough to edge past Mirai, Devara and Lucky Baskhar on their own third Tuesdays.

The cumulative math is getting interesting. Net collections in India stand at 170.95 crore after 19 days, which works out to a gross of 201.72 crore domestically. Add overseas numbers and the worldwide gross climbs to 223.92 crore. The film is closing in on 200 crore net at home and has its sights on 250 crore worldwide, a target that looked far-fetched three weeks ago for a mid-budget devotional thriller.

Context matters here. Irumudi was reportedly made on a budget of 35 crore, which makes this run look even better on paper. A film that size clearing 220-plus crore worldwide, and still selling 32,000 tickets on a Tuesday three weeks post-release, isn't the usual script for Tollywood in 2026.

So where does that put Irumudi in the pecking order? It has now overtaken The RajaSaab, which finished its own run at 206.57 crore, to sit as Tollywood's third-highest grosser globally for the year. That's a real jump. But the ceiling looks fixed. Catching Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu, currently sitting at 300.79 crore, isn't realistic at this stage of the run, and Koimoi's own numbers suggest Irumudi will likely close out the year parked at number three.

Still, third place in a year that's had no shortage of big swings in Telugu cinema isn't nothing, especially for a film that leaned on faith and family rather than a pan-India star vehicle to get people into theatres.

Shiva Nirvana wrote and directed the film, with Naveen Yerneni and Y Ravi Shankar producing under the Mythri Movie Makers banner. Priya Bhavani Shankar, Sai Kumar and Baby Nakshathra round out the principal cast alongside Ravi Teja.

The question now is legs. Third-week Tuesday numbers this strong usually mean a film has crossed from opening-weekend hype into word-of-mouth territory, the kind that keeps ticket counters busy on weekdays when most releases have already faded. Whether Irumudi can hold that pace through a fourth week, and how close it actually gets to 250 crore worldwide, should become clear by the time its theatrical run winds down.