RAMAYANA (Hindi) recorded an excellent extended four day first weekend of 159 crore nett though the film could have done a little better on Sunday even though it was Diwali Pooja. The collections came to a standstill in the evening but before that, they were running at Saturday pace and there was potential for them to better than Saturday here.

Taking out all the talk pre release which was always a joke, the realistic expectations for the film was to pick up around 175 crore nett over this extended weekend. It has not done that much but when you release in this period, there is a good chance you will not meet expectations. For RAMAYANA, to get almost 160 crore nett up on the board is still an excellent result.

The business of the film is considerably lower across North and Central India as well as Bihar and Gujarat while other circuits are a little better but basically its about how much each area gets affected by pre Diwali. The disappointment is probably is the Hindi version in Nizam/Andhra as the Telugu version is doing very well but you would have wanted higher collections in Hindi as pre Diwali does not affect collections here. The Hindi version is fantastic in Mysore despite the release not being as strong as it should be.

This 160 crore nett apprx over the first four days is a bonus and today, which is a national holiday, will work like the first day but it will be about how high it can go. The record for the highest single day in history is DHURANDHAR THE REVENGE when it picked up 100 crore nett on Sunday which was the fourth day of release plus paid previews. Here with RAMAYANA, its the fifth day and normally it would not matter much if it challenged the highest day. But the expectations and costs of RAMAYANA are huge and on top its the biggest day of the year for collections. So, it has to challenge the Sunday of DHURANDHAR THE REVENGE.

Its not a big deal whether it beats or not but it has to be somewhere around the figure of DHURANDHAR THE REVENGE that picked up on Sunday just because how huge this national holiday is. The film has fantastic in regional versions with 60 crore nett apprx over the first four days. This gives the film a total of 219 crore nett on all versions over the first four days.

The collections of RAMAYANA (Hindi) till date are as follows.

Thursday - 43,00,00,000 apprx

Friday - 33,25,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 48,75,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 34,00,00,000 apprx