Ramayana Nears $40 Million Overseas in Nine Days as North America Passes $17 Million

Ramayana: Part One is closing in on $40 million overseas in just nine days — a pace no Indian film has ever managed. The Nitesh Tiwari epic stood at $36.20 million (about Rs 342 crore) overseas after eight days, according to Pinkvilla’s trade estimates, and with its second weekend now under way, the $40 million mark is expected to fall within days. Only four Indian films have ever crossed $40 million overseas in their initial theatrical run — Baahubali 2, Pathaan, Jawan and Dhurandhar 2 — and none of them got there inside nine days. Pathaan needed two weeks; Jawan and Dhurandhar 2 took until their third weekends.

North America is doing the heavy lifting. Tracker Venky Box Office puts the film’s seven-day total in the United States and Canada at $17.49 million, narrowly ahead of Dhurandhar 2’s $17.32 million over the same period — and level with Pathaan’s $17.49 million lifetime North America haul. Pinkvilla’s tally, which converts Canadian dollars differently, is more conservative at $16.45 million ($12.83 million in the US, $3.63 million in Canada), so the Pathaan milestone is either already passed or about $1 million away depending on the tracker. Either way, the territory accounts for nearly half of the film’s entire overseas business.

The records are piling up elsewhere too. In the United Kingdom, Ramayana has already passed Dhurandhar 2’s extended opening-week total of about £2.75 million, reaching roughly $3.85 million (£2.90 million) by Wednesday — after becoming the first Indian film ever to top the official UK and Ireland weekend box office chart. Nepal has contributed NPR 12.80 crore (about Rs 8 crore) in eight days, and Sacnilk reports unusually strong interest in Thailand and Vietnam, markets where Indian films rarely register at this level.

Here is the Filmverse take: the overseas number is the story of this run, not a footnote to it. Overseas business accounts for about 35 per cent of Ramayana’s Rs 1,033.55 crore worldwide total — a far higher share than most Indian blockbusters manage — and it is being driven by diaspora audiences turning out in numbers usually reserved for opening weekends. A $1.93 million Wednesday in North America, a week after a Diwali opening, was the giveaway: this is repeat viewing and word of mouth, not front-loaded euphoria. With no major Hindi release until Shah Rukh Khan’s King on December 24, the second weekend will tell us whether $40 million is a milestone or merely a staging post on the way to $50 million and beyond. We reported the seven-day North America total here: https://filmverse.in/ramayana-north-america-box-office-16-45-million-seven-days-overseas-34-million/ Our Day 8 worldwide report is here: https://filmverse.in/ramayana-day-8-final-box-office-1033-crore-worldwide-1000-crore-club/

Sources: Pinkvilla, Sacnilk, Venky Box Office — all box-office figures are trade estimates, not producer figures.

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