Ramayana – Part I has had a weekend that the industry will talk about for a long time. The Ranbir Kapoor starrer, which released on November 5, 2026,…
Ramayana – Part I has had a weekend that the industry will talk about for a long time. The Ranbir Kapoor starrer, which released on November 5, 2026, has collected Rs. 230.32 crores gross over its opening weekend, and in the process has made its way into the elite club of the biggest weekend openers the Hindi film industry has ever seen. Among the films that have released so far, it now stands at number five, behind only four giants. The film began with Rs.
62.47 crores on its opening day, a solid start by any measure, though slightly below what trade circles had hoped for. What turned the weekend around was the way audiences kept walking into theatres once the word started spreading. The remaining days added Rs. 167.85 crores to the tally, which is the kind of growth that tells you people are not just coming out of curiosity, they are coming out of love for the story. Now, the company it keeps.
Dhurandhar The Revenge, which released in March this year, still sits comfortably at the top with Rs. 443 crores, a number so large that Ramayana would need to nearly double itself to reach it. Just above Ramayana are three films that defined the biggest openings of the last few years. Pushpa 2 – The Rule collected Rs. 291.00 crores in December 2024, Jawan managed Rs. 286.16 crores in September 2023, and Pathaan opened to Rs. 280.75 crores in January 2023. Ramayana trails Pathaan by about Rs.
50 crores, which shows just how close the film has come to the very top tier. What is more telling is whom Ramayana has left behind. Stree 2, the blockbuster of August 2024, opened to Rs. 204.00 crores, and Ramayana has gone past it by Rs. 26.32 crores. Animal, which had collected Rs. 201.76 crores in December 2023, now sits behind by Rs. 28.56 crores. K.G.F – Chapter 2 had stunned the nation in April 2022 with Rs. 193.99 crores, and Sultan, the Salman Khan starrer from July 2016, had opened to Rs. 180.36 crores.
Both now find themselves below Ramayana. Even Drishyam The Conclusion, which arrived only recently on October 2, 2026 and collected Rs. 174.00 crores, has been left some distance behind. The real test, as always, begins now. The weekdays will show how deep the film’s connect really is, and the second weekend will tell us whether Ramayana is a big opener or a film that will keep growing.
This is a source-linked briefing. Read the original report from Bollywood Hungama .