Mumbai, November 8 – Ramayana is set for its biggest day yet on Monday, the day after Diwali. The film’s advance booking for Day 5, November 9, has already gone past its opening day pre-sales. As of 7 PM on Sunday, Day 5 stands at 53.31 crores gross including block seats and 48.01 crores gross without block seats, from 13.84 lakh tickets across 23,972 shows.
For comparison, the final opening day advance on the morning of November 5 was 50.08 crores gross including block seats and 42.96 crores without block seats. That was the second biggest opening day advance ever for a Bollywood film. Day 5 has passed it with a full night and Monday morning still to go.
The jump is no surprise. As Sacnilk’s Diwali record book showed, the day after Lakshmi Puja is a holiday and has been the biggest day of Diwali week for Hindi films, while the festival evening itself is soft. Ramayana’s Day 4 advance for Sunday had closed at 39.72 crores gross including block seats. Day 5 has added 15.41 crores since 6 AM today alone, and 9.34 crores in the last six hours.
The Hindi version is driving it. Hindi accounts for 42.65 crores of the Day 5 gross, around 80 percent, against 37.52 crores for Hindi in the final opening day advance. The average Hindi ticket price is ₹461, up from ₹429 on Day 1, and Hindi 3D shows alone have sold 23.09 crores. Premium formats like IMAX, 4DX and Dolby bring in 5.92 crores from just 2 percent of the shows.
Maharashtra leads the states for Day 5 at 9.90 crores gross, followed by Karnataka at 8.02 crores and Delhi at 7.67 crores. Among cities, the National Capital Region is on top at 7.67 crores, ahead of Bengaluru at 6.18 crores and Mumbai at 5.98 crores. Tamil Nadu is running at 68 percent occupancy with 156 housefull shows, the strongest of any state.
At the current pace, the Day 5 advance is heading past 60 crores gross by Monday morning. That sets up a 100 crores plus gross day in India. On opening day, the film’s India gross of 77.50 crores came in at 1.55 times its final advance including block seats, and a holiday Monday should bring much stronger spot booking than a Thursday release. It all boils down to the walk-ins in the Hindi belt tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the film has collected 182.70 crores net in India in its first three days, with 64.85 crores on Day 1, 48.05 crores on Day 2 and 69.80 crores on Day 3. Sunday’s figures are still coming in, and live tracking already has the four-day total past 200 crores net. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari, Ramayana stars Ranbir Kapoor as Rama, Yash as Ravana and Sai Pallavi as Sita. You can follow the numbers in the Day 5 advance booking report.
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