Ramayana Sets Bollywood First-Monday Record, Crosses Rs 300 Crore Net in India

Nitesh Tiwari's "Ramayana: Part One" posted the biggest first-Monday collection for a Hindi film on Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, its fifth day in theaters, and pushed its India net total past Rs 300 crore, according to figures from trade tracker Sacnilk reported by Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and NDTV Profit. The same day, the Ranbir Kapoor and Yash film set a new record for the most tickets sold in a single hour on the booking platform BookMyShow, India Today reported.

A record Monday in progress

As of 8 p.m. IST on Monday, the film had collected Rs 83.75 crore net in India from 20,130 shows, The Indian Express reported, citing Sacnilk. Hindustan Times, using figures through the same hour, put the day's business at about Rs 83 crore net and the film's domestic total at Rs 322 crore. Evening and night shows were still being counted at the time, and final figures for the day were expected later in the night, NDTV Profit reported.

An hour earlier, at 7 p.m., Sacnilk had recorded Rs 80.98 crore net from 18,191 shows, with a gross of Rs 95.56 crore for the day and overall occupancy of 63.9%, according to NDTV Profit. The Week reported that, at that point, the Hindi version had contributed Rs 68.31 crore, the Kannada version Rs 5.78 crore and the Tamil version Rs 4.02 crore. The film's five-day India net total then stood at Rs 319.83 crore and its India gross at Rs 380.76 crore, both outlets reported.

Monday's figure was already well above the film's previous best single day, Rs 69.80 crore net on Saturday, Nov. 7, NDTV Profit and The Week reported. Before Monday, the record for the biggest first Monday by a Hindi film belonged to Ranveer Singh's "Dhurandhar 2," which earned Rs 60 crore net earlier in 2026, followed by "Border 2" at Rs 59 crore and Salman Khan's "Tiger 3" at Rs 58 crore, according to The Indian Express. Hindustan Times reported that "Ramayana" had passed the "Dhurandhar 2" mark, while noting that the earlier film's figure came on a non-holiday Monday. "Tiger 3" had held the record for a first Monday that fell on a holiday, set on Diwali in 2023, the newspaper said.

Holiday demand

Monday coincided with Govardhan Puja, and Tuesday with Bhai Dooj, both part of the extended Diwali holiday period, Hindustan Times reported. The newspaper said the film had sold more than 14 lakh tickets in advance for Monday, grossing over Rs 50 crore, its highest single-day advance booking. The Indian Express put Monday's advance sales at an estimated Rs 45 crore net, excluding blocked seats, and reported that 289 morning and afternoon shows had recorded housefull status, with 92 shows completely sold out and premium formats including 3D, IMAX and 4DX drawing demand.

BookMyShow hourly record

According to BookMyShow tracking reported by Sacnilk, "Ramayana" became the first film to sell more than 1.10 lakh tickets on the platform within an hour, reaching a peak of 1,11,830, India Today reported. That placed it ahead of "Dhurandhar 2" at 1,09,170 and Allu Arjun's "Pushpa 2" at 1,07,650, records that go back to August 2023. Between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Monday, the film sold about 91,500 tickets, up 67% from 54,760 in the same hour on Sunday, according to India Today, which noted that "Dhurandhar 2" remains well ahead in cumulative BookMyShow bookings.

Other reports gave higher peaks. Hindustan Times said the film was selling 1.37 lakh tickets per hour around noon, the highest since the platform began keeping such records after the pandemic. The makers announced that the film had sold more than 1.40 lakh tickets in a single hour, The Indian Express reported. India Today also reported that the film had logged more than one million daily bookings on BookMyShow on each of its first four days, making it only the sixth Indian film to do so.

Worldwide position

Through its first four days, the film had grossed Rs 507.20 crore worldwide, including Rs 222 crore from overseas markets, according to Sacnilk figures reported by The Indian Express; NDTV Profit and The Week cited the same worldwide total. India Today, citing earlier Sacnilk figures, had put the four-day worldwide gross at Rs 499.20 crore. The Indian Express reported that the four-day total was already above the Rs 393 crore lifetime worldwide gross of "Adipurush," the 2023 adaptation of the same epic, and that it ranked 33rd among the highest-grossing Indian films worldwide.

In North America, the film opened to $12.2 million including Thursday previews, the second-biggest opening for an Indian film in the region after the $14.5 million debut of "Dhurandhar 2," The Indian Express reported. Its release across 1,433 screens was the widest for an Indian film there, according to the newspaper.

About the film

"Ramayana" is produced by Namit Malhotra's Prime Focus Studios in collaboration with DNEG and Yash's Monster Mind Creations, and is the first of two parts, Hindustan Times and India Today reported. It stars Kapoor as Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman, with Sunny Deol as Hanuman, according to NDTV Profit, which said the music is composed by Hans Zimmer and AR Rahman. The film opened on Nov. 5 in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada and carries a reported cost of about Rs 4,000 crore for both parts. It is released internationally as "Ramayana: Rise of a Legend," with Sony Pictures handling distribution outside India, NDTV Profit reported. The second part is scheduled for Diwali 2028, according to Hindustan Times.

Sources

• Hindustan Times — Abhimanyu Mathur, Ramayana box office collection day 5: Bollywood's biggest Monday, races past Rs 300 crore (Nov. 9, 2026)
• India Today — Ramayana beats Dhurandhar 2, Pushpa 2 with 1.11 lakh BookMyShow tickets in an hour (Nov. 9, 2026)
• The Indian Express — Kriti Sonali, Ramayana Part 1 box office collection live updates (Nov. 9, 2026)
• NDTV Profit — Ramayana earns big at box office on Day 5, region-wise earnings (Nov. 9, 2026)
• The Week — Sachin Jose, Ramayana Day 5 box office: highest daily collection (Nov. 9, 2026)