The real Diwali fireworks didn’t light up the sky this week, they exploded inside cinema halls. Silencing critics and trade sceptics in one fell swoop, Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana didn’t just comfortably pass the dreaded first Monday test; it obliterated it. In what can only be described as a box office blitzkrieg, the Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi starrer entered the record books by scoring a mammoth single-day net collection of Rs. 107.50 crore across 23,911 shows in India on Day 5.
The turn of fortune follows a brief lull on Sunday, where Lakshmi Puja rituals pulled collections down to Rs. 56.15 crore after a sturdy Rs. 69.80 crore Saturday. But trade analyst Taran Adarsh had accurately predicted this post-puja rebound. Noting the impending surge, he wrote, “The film now moves into a game-changing phase… With #Diwali celebrations beginning, #Ramayana is expected to deliver a colossal total today [Monday], going by the extraordinary advance bookings and excellent audience feedback”. He added, “The mass circuits, which are yet to unleash their full potential, are expected to deliver in a big way during the Diwali festivities… And if that happens, the sky is the limit”.
The milestone tastes especially sweet when contrasted with 2023’s Adipurush, which famously nosedived to Rs. 10 crores on day five. Here, mounted on an unprecedented, reported budget of Rs. 4,000 crore, Tiwari’s visual spectacle, anchored by Yash, Sunny Deol, and Ravi Dubey alongside Ranbir and Sai, is proving that genuine theatrical magic still reigns supreme.
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