Ramayana: Part One, directed by Nitesh Tiwari and starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash, has crossed the ₹1,000 crore mark worldwide in eight days, according to trade estimates reported on 13 November. The film released on 5 November 2026 and has had an extended opening week helped by the Diwali holidays. These are tracker numbers, not audited figures from the producers.

What the numbers say

The Open Press, citing trade estimates, reports a worldwide gross of ₹1,033.55 crore by 12 November. The Week gives the same total and the same split: ₹675.05 crore from India and ₹358.50 crore from overseas markets. If the figures hold, the film becomes the 11th Indian film to enter the ₹1,000 crore club.

The Open Press adds that eight days makes it the third-fastest Indian film to get there, behind Pushpa 2: The Rule and Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge, which are reported to have done it in seven days. We have not independently confirmed that ranking.

India net: trackers disagree

Domestic net figures are less settled. According to Pinkvilla's tracking, as reported by Mamaraazzi, the film earned about ₹50.50 crore net on Thursday, 12 November, its eighth day, taking the India net total to about ₹554 crore. The Hindi version accounts for about ₹429 crore of that and the dubbed versions about ₹125 crore. Another tracker quoted by The Open Press puts India net at ₹564.60 crore.

The gap of roughly ₹10 crore is normal for early trade estimates, which are revised as theatres report final figures. Pinkvilla also separately puts the net without 3D charges at about ₹520 crore, which shows how much the definition matters when you compare films.

Records claimed in the first week

According to the reports, the film opened to about ₹64.85 crore net in India, the biggest opening of Ranbir Kapoor's career and ahead of the ₹63.80 crore that Animal opened to. It is also reported as Sai Pallavi's biggest opening and a new best for Nitesh Tiwari, ahead of Dangal. On its fifth day the film is said to have earned about ₹107.50 crore net, one of the few Hindi releases to cross ₹100 crore in a single day.

On ticketing, the reports say 16.60 lakh tickets were sold in one day on BookMyShow, a record for a Bollywood film on that platform, and 54.76 lakh tickets over the opening weekend including advance sales. Premium formats are also strong, with worldwide IMAX collections estimated at about $6 million, around $2 million of it from India.

South India and the dubbed versions

The film has done well beyond the Hindi belt. The Week reports that the Kannada-dubbed version has been the top dubbed language for nine days and has now crossed ₹50 crore net, the first Bollywood film to do so. It earned about ₹1.17 crore on Day 9 from 541 shows. Yash, who plays Ravana, is a big draw in Karnataka, where the film's total gross across languages is estimated at about ₹102 crore. Across the Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam versions together, the film has netted more than ₹100 crore.

The debate around the film

The success has come with an argument about how the epic is told. Sunil Lahri, who played Lakshman in the 1980s television Ramayan, posted a mixed video review, praising the visual effects and acting but saying the devotional feel was missing, according to the Times of India. Dipika Chikhlia, who played Sita on TV, has said the film is well made and was bound to do well. Writer Varun Grover criticised the TV cast on X for what he called entitlement over the film. These are opinions, and the box office suggests audiences are making up their own minds.

What to watch next

The second weekend will show whether the film holds after the festival boost. Day 8 earned roughly half of the festive peak, and a steep fall on ordinary working days would slow the climb. Trade trackers will also revise today's numbers as final data comes in, so treat every figure here as provisional. The film is the first part of a two-part retelling.