Photo via Koimoi - Box OfficeChristopher Nolan's epic has climbed to seventh among Hollywood's all-time highest grossers in India, and it still has one more spot in its sights.
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Fifty-two days in, and The Odyssey is still finding money nobody expected it to find.
Christopher Nolan's epic action fantasy pulled in 68 lakh on Sunday, taking its net total in India to 188.14 crore, according to figures reported by Koimoi. That number matters because it's exactly enough to slide past The Jungle Book's 188 crore lifetime haul and claim the seventh spot on the list of Hollywood's all-time highest grossers in the country.
The gross figure, for context, sits at 222.02 crore.
This isn't a film riding a big opening weekend anymore. It's a film that opened its eighth week with 38 lakh on Friday, day 50, then 64 lakh on Saturday, then Sunday's 68 lakh, adding up to an eighth-weekend total of just 1.7 crore. Small numbers on their own. But stack fifty-two days of small numbers next to each other and you get a film that's outlasted nearly every Hollywood release to hit Indian screens in recent memory.
Word-of-mouth is doing the heavy lifting here, and has been since the first week, per Koimoi's tracking. There's no fresh marketing push, no re-release gimmick. Just a film that keeps finding audiences on a Tuesday afternoon show two months after release, which is rarer than trade circles like to admit.
The next target is Avatar: Fire And Ash, sitting at 190.5 crore. That's a gap of roughly 2.4 crore, and at the pace The Odyssey is moving, even in its wind-down weeks, that sixth spot looks reachable before the film exits theatres for good. Whether it gets there in the next few days or drags into a third month depends on how many screens are still holding onto it, and how many are getting cleared for whatever's opening next Friday.
Context for how unusual this run is: Spider-Man: Brand New Day recently became the first Hollywood film to cross the 500 crore mark in India, a number that makes The Odyssey's total look almost modest. But Spider-Man had a built-in audience and a franchise machine behind it. The Odyssey had Nolan's name, an ensemble cast, and not much else pushing it beyond the reviews and the word passed along after the first screenings.
That's the more interesting story buried in these numbers. Hollywood tentpoles with superhero muscle behind them are supposed to be the ones stacking up crores in India right now. A Nolan original, without a cape or a franchise number in the title, quietly climbing past The Jungle Book on day 52 is the kind of thing trade trackers will point to when the year-end lists come out.
For now, the film keeps its slow crawl toward sixth place. One more strong weekend, and Avatar: Fire And Ash gets knocked down the list too.
This article was written by the CutMirchi desk from the reporting above. Facts are attributed to their original publishers.
The Odyssey has completed 50 days in Indian cinemas with ₹186.97 crore net, sitting eighth among Hollywood's biggest Indian grossers and closing in on The Jungle Book's ₹188 crore mark.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey logged $1.04 million on its 11th Friday in the U.S., bringing its North American total to $613.9 million, still $23 million behind Deadpool & Wolverine for the top R‑rated slot.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has pushed past Spider-Man: No Way Home's overseas tally in its tenth weekend, crossing $1.1 billion abroad and $1.72 billion worldwide, with $1.9 billion now within reach for the Matt Damon-led epic.
The Odyssey has dropped below $1 million a day at the North American box office for the first time in 63 days, landing the fifth-longest such streak on record as Resident Evil eats into its IMAX screen count.
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