Mirzapur: The Movie Box Office Day 1 Live: Pankaj Tripathi & Ali Fazal Starrer Registers Roaring ₹24+ Cr Opening

With strong advance bookings for Sunday evening and night shows across single screens and multiplexes alike, trade analysts project a full opening weekend domestic net between ₹88 crore and ₹92 crore.

Sunday Matinee Occupancy Breaches 68% Across Circuits

Mass circuits in UP, Bihar, and Delhi-NCR are recording packed houses for Sunday matinee shows. PVR INOX properties in northern belts report footfalls surpassing Saturday levels by over 18%.

Despite heavy competition from Mirzapur: The Movie and Yash-starrer Toxic, exhibitors have ramped up daily show counts from the initial 250 screens in week one to well over 6,000 shows nationwide due to relentless housefull footfalls.

The arrival of Mirzapur: The Movie has significantly eaten into competing theatrical screens, causing Yash-starrer Toxic to drop to under ₹2 crore on its second Friday as audiences gravitate toward Purvanchal's big-screen face-offs.

Prime evening and night screenings across major national chains in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, and Lucknow report occupancy climbing over 60%, with single-screen mass belts in UP and Bihar sustaining housefull runs.

Following an opening of ₹24.75 crore net on Friday, Saturday trade tracking indicates an early Day 2 haul of ₹7+ crore by evening shows, pushing total domestic net collections past ₹32.4 crore and India gross beyond ₹38.7 crore.

Early morning trends from the Gulf and UK markets show strong interest among South Asian diaspora audiences, pointing to an encouraging Day 1 overseas gross tally.

PVR INOX and Cinepolis properties across Delhi-NCR and Mumbai are recording heavy on-counter spot bookings, taking the overall Day 1 night show occupancy estimate past 72%.

Mass centers in Lucknow, Kanpur, and Patna are registering housefull boards for evening shows. Divyenndu’s return as Munna Tripathi alongside Pankaj Tripathi's Kaleen Bhaiya is drawing deafening whistles and electric crowd reactions inside single-screen auditoriums.

Leading trade analysts estimate a 25% to 30% jump on Saturday. Driven by solid audience word-of-mouth and high advance ticket sales for prime evening slots, the opening weekend gross is projected to comfortably cross the ₹75 crore milestone.

Early viewer reviews on X (formerly Twitter) are spotlighting the intense face-off scenes between Ali Fazal (Guddu Pandit) and Ravi Kishan. Neutral moviegoers are turning out in droves, praising the cinematic scale that successfully expands beyond the web series format.

Night screenings for Mirzapur: The Movie recorded over 62% average occupancy, driven heavily by massive crowds in mass belts across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Delhi-NCR.

Early trade estimates indicate an opening day domestic net of ₹24.75 crore (Hindi net ₹24.60 crore), taking the gross total past ₹29.70 crore.

With a ₹24+ crore haul, the feature adaptation has emerged as the fourth-highest Hindi opening-day grosser of 2026, overtaking recent hits like Awarapan 2.