Fifty days in and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey still won't leave the chart alone.

The film added another 53 lakh on its eighth Friday, taking its net total in India to 186.97 crore, or 220.62 crore gross. That puts it eighth on the list of highest-grossing Hollywood films ever released in India, and it's close enough to seventh that the gap is almost funny: just 1.04 crore stands between The Odyssey and The Jungle Book's 188 crore lifetime haul. Given the film is still running, and running well for a two-month-old release, that gap should close within days.

What's kept it alive this long is partly Nolan's name, partly the word of mouth that built through July and August, and partly, as Koimoi noted, a stroke of luck. Toxic flopped hard enough on arrival to hand back IMAX screens that The Odyssey had been steadily losing to newer releases. That reclaimed screen count is doing real work. An eighth-Friday number that actually beats Spider-Man: Brand New Day's sixth Friday isn't something you see from a film two months into its run, not when the multiplexes are supposed to have moved on to the next big thing weeks ago.

The week-by-week slide, and why it doesn't matter much now

The drop-off has been steep and entirely normal for a film this size. Week one alone brought in 85.65 crore. Week two more than halved that to 45.67 crore. By week four it was down to 15.65 crore, and by week seven it had thinned out to 2.82 crore. That's the shape every long-running hit takes, front-loaded and tailing off hard. What's unusual is that the tail refuses to actually end. Week five, six and seven each brought in enough to keep The Odyssey in the news cycle, and the IMAX bump from Toxic's failure has now stretched that tail further than anyone probably expected in early July.

The Jungle Book has held the seventh spot on this list for years. It won't hold it much longer. The Odyssey's climb past it feels less like a milestone and more like a formality at this point, a number waiting to be crossed rather than a target being chased.

What happens after that is the more interesting question. Sixth place and beyond on this chart belongs to a different tier of Hollywood release in India, the kind that cleared 200 crore-plus without much competition standing in the way. Whether The Odyssey has the legs to keep climbing past The Jungle Book depends entirely on what releases next and whether IMAX screens stay in its corner. For now, day 51 is the only number that matters.