Ramayana Closes on $40 Million Overseas as North America Nears $20 Million on Second Friday

Ramayana: Part One is now a whisker away from $40 million overseas. The Nitesh Tiwari epic added an estimated Rs 25 crore outside India on its second Friday, taking its nine-day overseas total to Rs 378.50 crore — roughly $39.9 million at current rates — according to trade tracker Sacnilk. 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. The milestone is now expected to fall during the second weekend, which would make Ramayana the fastest Indian film ever to the mark.

North America is doing the heavy lifting. Live tracker Boxoffy puts the film’s United States and Canada total at $18.6 million through Thursday, and Friday added about $1.38 million more from 80,040 tickets counted — taking the territory to just short of $20 million. That is a remarkable hold for a second Friday: Friday’s North America business was up sharply on Thursday, and Saturday presales were already at 76,895 tickets (about $1.33 million) before the weekend had properly begun. By comparison, tracker Venky Box Office had the film at $17.49 million in North America after seven days, narrowly ahead of Dhurandhar 2 over the same period.

The records are piling up elsewhere too. The United Kingdom stands at about $3.88 million, the Gulf at $3.60 million and Australia at $2.85 million, and the film has now opened in Indonesia as well, a market where Indian films rarely register at this level. Thailand had already contributed an estimated $850,000 after seven days. Overseas business now accounts for about 34 per cent of Ramayana’s Rs 1,110.70 crore worldwide total — a far higher share than most Indian blockbusters manage.

Here is the Filmverse take: the overseas number is the story of this run, not a footnote to it. A $1.38 million second Friday in North America, a week after a Diwali opening, is repeat viewing and word of mouth, not front-loaded euphoria — and the Saturday presales suggest the second weekend could yet outgross the first Friday. With no major Hindi release until Shah Rukh Khan’s King on December 24, Ramayana has a clear runway, and the question now is not whether it crosses $40 million overseas but how far past $50 million it can go. 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 9 worldwide report is here: https://filmverse.in/ramayana-day-9-final-box-office-47-85-crore-india-net-612-crore-worldwide-1110-crore/

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