Ramayana crosses ₹100 crore in global advance bookings

Ramayana: Rise of a Legend has reportedly crossed ₹100 crore in global advance bookings, two days before its release. The mythological epic has sold more than 523,000 tickets on BookMyShow.

As of 12.30 pm IST on 2 November, the film had sold 4.99 lakh tickets through day one advance bookings, excluding blocked seats. In collections, that equals ₹21.72 crore gross.

The ticket count places the film ahead of Animal, Tiger 3 and Chhaava on BookMyShow. It still trails Jawan, which sold 816,000 advance tickets, and Dhurandhar 2, which sold 1.1 million.

Opening day expectations

Trade expectations put the opening day collection above ₹150 crore worldwide. Early premieres have generated positive word of mouth, and the promotional campaign has been well received.

Ranbir Kapoor plays Lord Ram, Sai Pallavi plays Sita and Yash plays Ravana. Ravi Dubey, Sunny Deol, Kajal Aggarwal and Rakul Preet Singh also appear in key roles. Nitesh Tiwari directs the film, which is the first part of a two-part franchise. The score is being built by the global composers Hans Zimmer and AR Rahman, whose work on the project is now part of the film's marketing.

The makers have put the budget of the two-part franchise at ₹4,000 crore. One report put the first part's cost at ₹2,000 crore.

Whether the film can match the advance sales of Jawan or Dhurandhar 2 will become clearer once the opening weekend figures are published.