Indian Films in the USA and Canada This Weekend: Gondhal Opens Friday as Ramayana Eyes a Huge Second Weekend

The weekend ahead is the busiest yet for Indian cinema in North America. India’s Oscar entry Gondhal opens in theatres on Friday, November 13, in seven languages; Ramayana heads into its second weekend after a record-breaking first week; and singer Jubin Nautiyal opens his North America tour in San Jose on Friday night.

Gondhal is the headline for the weekend’s art-house crowd. Santosh Davakhar’s Marathi psychological thriller — India’s official submission to the 99th Academy Awards — releases worldwide on Friday in seven languages: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English, across the US, the UK, Europe, Australia, Dubai and Africa. In Texas, the film opens the INDICA Dallas Film Utsav on Friday: red carpet at 5:00 pm, screening at 6:30 pm at Galaxy Theatres Grandscape in The Colony, followed by a Q&A with Davakhar. We covered the trailer and the seven-language plan here: https://filmverse.in/gondhal-trailer-oscar-entry-seven-languages-november-13-release/

The film follows newlyweds Suman and Anandrao as desire, duty and devotion collide, and it opens with a 25-minute unbroken take. It stars Ishita Deshmukh, Kishor Kadam, Yogesh Sohani and Nishad Bhoir, and Davakhar has said there are no OTT plans for now. The Dallas festival runs November 13–15, with filmmaker Q&As, documentaries and a short-film contest finale — details here: https://filmverse.in/indica-dallas-film-utsav-2026-texas-gondhal-oscar-entry/

For the blockbuster crowd, Ramayana enters its second weekend with $11.43 million banked in the United States and $3.10 million in Canada, and the trade projects a $20 million-plus US lifetime. Suriya’s Scene continues too, at $1.655 million in North America and closing on breakeven — our latest report is here: https://filmverse.in/ramayana-north-america-box-office-14-5-million-six-days-overseas-30-million/

And on stage: Jubin Nautiyal’s North America tour opens Friday, November 13, at The San Jose Civic, followed by the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, in the Dallas area, on Saturday, November 14. It continues to Boston on November 20, Atlantic City on November 28 and Toronto on November 29; tickets are listed through AXS, Ticketmaster and SeatGeek. Full dates here: https://filmverse.in/jubin-nautiyal-usa-canada-tour-november-2026-dates/

Here is the Filmverse take: the weekend is a snapshot of how wide the diaspora audience has become. An Oscar-entry thriller from Marathi cinema, a mythological epic playing like an event film and a live tour from one of Bollywood’s biggest voices share the same three days — and Toronto’s Reel Asian festival, which opened today, adds a fourth thread, with Strong Son screening on Saturday. For Indians abroad, the weekend is no longer one big release at a time, but a full calendar of Indian cinema, live and on screen.

Sources: Bollywood Hungama, NRI2NRI, Pinkvilla — dates and venues as published; confirm with organisers before travelling.