Ramayana Part 1 is heading into its first Monday with the biggest advance booking of its run — ₹45.53 crore worth of tickets already sold before a single Monday show began, more than the film managed in advance sales on its opening day. The Ranbir Kapoor and Yash epic, which opened in cinemas on Thursday 5 November, has now turned its first weekday into the most closely watched day of its box-office run, and the trade is calling Monday 9 November the film’s real test.
₹45.53 crore before Monday even began
Advance bookings for Day 5, Monday 9 November, reached ₹45.53 crore nett across all languages by 8:30 PM on Sunday, according to trade tracker Bollywood Hungama, with 13,15,667 tickets — more than 13.15 lakh — sold across 22,522 shows. The jump is remarkable even by this film’s standards. At 4:30 PM on Saturday the same advance figure stood at ₹19.11 crore, with 4,92,928 tickets sold across 16,559 shows. In roughly 28 hours the Monday advance more than doubled, adding ₹26.42 crore, and the final Sunday-evening update alone added ₹7.62 crore, a rise of about 20 per cent on the previous count. For a film already running at record pace, the speed of the late surge is what has stunned the trade: Monday’s advance kept climbing through the whole weekend instead of flattening out.
Monday advance beats opening day
The record that matters most to the trade is the national-chain comparison. By 8 PM on Sunday, Ramayana had sold 4 lakh tickets in national chains for Monday — ahead of the 3.75 lakh tickets the same chains sold in advance for the film’s opening day. On that basis, trade site Box Office Worldwide puts Monday on course for around ₹85 crore nett, which would make it the biggest single day of the film’s run so far. For a Monday, traditionally the weakest day of the week for cinemas, that would be an extraordinary result. Opening days are usually the peak for big releases, because advance bookings and first-day excitement are at their highest. For a weekday to beat the opening day’s advance is rare, and it is why Monday is now being watched as the day that will define the film’s run.
Hindi and 3D lead the surge
The Hindi version continues to carry the film. In the last full language-wise update, Hindi accounted for ₹30.91 crore of ₹37.92 crore in advance sales — more than four-fifths of the total — with Kannada the next biggest contributor among the dubbed versions. The 3D formats have been the other engine of the surge, generating ₹25.77 crore of the advance, or about 68 per cent, as audiences choose the premium large-format experience for a film built around scale and spectacle. Maharashtra, Karnataka and the National Capital Region are the leading markets for Monday’s advance sales, with hundreds of shows already marked houseful or fast-filling before the day began. The pattern is consistent across the run: the film is performing strongest where the big-screen experience matters most to audiences.
Four days in: ₹499 crore worldwide
The advance record caps a huge opening weekend. Ramayana Part 1 has collected ₹183.25 crore nett in Hindi and ₹233.25 crore nett across India in its first four days, and it crossed ₹200 crore nett domestically during the weekend. Worldwide, the film stands at ₹499 crore gross after four days, a figure that already places it among the biggest Indian openings of the year. The film released on Thursday 5 November in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. It is directed by Nitesh Tiwari, with Ranbir Kapoor as Rama and Yash as Ravana, and it is the first of a two-part adaptation, with Part 2 scheduled for Diwali 2027. The scale of the opening has already made it the defining release of the season; Monday will show whether that scale can hold.
What Monday will decide
Monday is the first weekday after an extended four-day opening weekend, and it is the day that separates a record-breaking opening from a record-breaking run. A strong Monday, at or near the ₹85 crore figure trade trackers are projecting, would confirm that the film’s audience is not just opening-weekend curiosity but sustained demand, including repeat viewers returning for the spectacle. A sharp fall would suggest the weekend was front-loaded by advance bookings and holiday demand. Either way, by Tuesday morning the industry will know whether Ramayana is on course to push past ₹700 crore worldwide in its first week, or whether its biggest days are already behind it. For now, the advance booking has already written one record: no Monday in the film’s short history has ever started this big.
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