Ranveer Singh starrer ‘Dhurandhar The Revenge’ or ‘Dhurandhar 2’ is releasing in theaters on March 19, 2026. Before that, advance booking of this film is going on in full swing. Actually, directed by Aditya Dhar, the first part of this film broke all the box office earning records after its release in December 2025 and became the biggest film of Bollywood. Due to this, the expectations from its sequel are even higher due to which the craze for Dhurandhar 2 among the fans has reached sky high.
Amidst all this, as the countdown for the film is starting, the main focus of trade analysts is whether this film will be able to make it to the top five films with the highest Hindi advance booking till date?
How much advance booking has been done for Dhurandhar 2?
Ranveer Singh’s film ‘Dhurandhar 2’ is creating a lot of buzz even before its release. After the historical response to the paid preview, it is now getting a tremendous response in advance booking on the first day of its release. Due to strong sales at the national cinema chains (PVR Inox and Cinepolis), bookings are taking place at the Indian box office. The number of shows yesterday was around 11,200, and as expected, the number of shows has increased across the country, now reaching around 13,400. There are still three more days left, so it is expected that the number of shows will increase significantly and will cross 15,000. The biggest challenge for the exhibitors is the long runtime of the film of approximately 4 hours. Such a long runtime is affecting the total number of shows.
- Still, as per the data of SACNILC till 11 am on Monday, ‘Dhurandhar 2’ has sold more than 3.12 lakh tickets for the opening day across the country.
- It has earned a net earning of Rs 14.62 crore at the Indian box office from advance booking on the first day itself.
- There are still three more days left for its release, so there is full scope for it to touch the figure of Rs 30 crore.
Beat Border 2 in pre sale
Meanwhile, it has overtaken ‘Border 2’ to hold the record of highest first day pre-sales for any Bollywood film in 2026. Let us tell you that ‘Border 2’ had sold tickets worth Rs 12.5 crore. Let us tell you that among all the Indian films of 2026, Prabhas’s ‘The Raja Saab’ has made the record of highest advance booking on the first day, in which tickets worth Rs 15.31 crore were sold. Ranveer Singh’s film ‘The Raja Saab’ is inches away from surpassing this figure. After which it will win the title of the biggest pre-sale of this year. A storm is brewing at the Indian box office!
Which version is getting the most advance booking?
Let us tell you that the Hindi version has the largest share in the advance booking of the first day of Dhurandhar 2, for which about 2.9 lakh tickets have been sold.
- After this comes the Telugu dubbed version, for which around 14 thousand tickets have been sold.
- More than 7.8 thousand tickets have been sold in the Tamil version.
- Around 225 tickets of the Malayalam version have been sold, followed by 22 tickets of the Kannada version.
Will Hindi be able to make it to the top 5 films with advance booking?
To join the elite list of Top 5, ‘Dhurandhar 2’ will first have to cross the benchmark of Rs 29.25 crore of ‘Animal’. Among the current record-holders, ‘KGF 2’ still leads the list, as it is the only film to have crossed the Rs 40 crore mark in Hindi advance sales. At the same time, ‘Bahubali 2’ had earned Rs 37.53 crore from the gross advance booking of the opening day in the year 2017, which remained a record for many years.
Highest ever Hindi advance booking (opening day gross)
- KGF Chapter 2- Rs 40.65 crore
- Baahubali 2- Rs 37.53 crore
- Pushpa 2- Rs 37.30 crore
- Jawan- Rs 37.24 crore
- Animal- Rs 29.25 crore