Ramayana Advance Bookings Cross ₹44 Crore Worldwide as Over 4 Lakh Tickets Sell Before November 5 Release

Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana: Part One has crossed ₹44 crore in worldwide advance bookings five days before its theatrical release on November 5, 2026, according to trade tracker Sacnilk’s data reported on Saturday morning. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor as Ram, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana, Sunny Deol as Hanuman and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman, with music by Hans Zimmer and A. R. Rahman. By Saturday afternoon the domestic figure had already moved higher, to ₹19.89 crore gross in India including blocked seats, with more than 4.07 lakh tickets sold — a reminder that pre-sale totals are live estimates that shift through the day, not final box-office results.

Inside India, the booking map is strikingly concentrated. Karnataka leads domestic gross at ₹3.89 crore, just ahead of Maharashtra at ₹3.85 crore, with Delhi contributing ₹3.25 crore, and the top ten states together accounting for 86% of opening-day bookings. At city level, the National Capital Region leads with ₹3.25 crore, followed by Bengaluru at ₹3.12 crore and Mumbai at ₹2.48 crore. Hindi dominates the language split at ₹16.28 crore, or 83% of the domestic total across 8,326 tracked shows, while Kannada is second at ₹2.56 crore, or 13% — a split that says as much about Yash’s home-market pull as it does about the film’s Hindi heartland. There is still plenty of headroom: only 23 shows are houseful so far, and around 90% of the 9,050 registered shows still have seats available.

Overseas, unusually, is outpacing India. International pre-sales stood at ₹24.50 crore in the morning snapshot, with North America contributing $1.91 million — roughly ₹18.15 crore, or nearly three-quarters of the overseas total — followed by the United Kingdom and Ireland at $268,800 and Australia and New Zealand at $248,300. By the afternoon, overseas pre-sales were reported at around $3.5 million, and paid premiere shows on November 4 alone have crossed $1 million, with more than 43,000 tickets sold. Bookings in the Middle East, a major market for Indian films, have not even opened yet.

Why this matters is the shape of the demand, not just its size. A film whose overseas advance is bigger than its domestic one is leaning heavily on the diaspora audience — and that momentum visibly accelerated after the film’s world premiere at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on October 27, which gave North American buyers their first full look at the finished film. The Kannada second-place finish is the other telling detail: it suggests the film is travelling as a Yash event in the south as much as a Ranbir Kapoor event in the north. The risk in reading too much into pre-sales is real, though — blocked seats inflate gross figures, and a strong advance is no guarantee of a long run once word of mouth takes over after opening weekend.

What to watch next: the November 4 paid previews, which will be the first real audience verdict; the November 5 opening itself; and whether Middle East bookings, once they open, push the overseas total further. Trade projections put the overseas opening weekend at more than $20 million, possibly touching $25 million if additional markets perform — a range that would put Ramayana alongside the biggest Indian overseas debuts, with Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2 opening to about $21.25 million overseas and Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan to around $21 million. For more star stories and bios, browse our Did You Know collection.