The Diwali 2025 release, Thamma has proved to be a box-office dhamaka as the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe film has surpassed all expectations on the opening day as per early estimates. According to our tracking, the Dinesh Vijan produced film starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna has opened in the range of Rs. 24 crores to Rs. 26 crores, which is about 30 percent higher than the pre-release expectations.

The film has taken a start all across the board - be it single screens or multiplexes - and the collections were on the rise on a show-to-show basis, indicating a strong word of mouth among the cinema-going audience. The film yet again showcases the strength of the horror comedy universe, and this establishes it as one of the most successful universes of Indian cinema.

The film has emerged as the #1 opener to date for Ayushmann Khurrana, and this has come despite a clash with another film - Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat. The reports are plus, which means that a Rs. 100 crore plus weekend (Tuesday to Sunday) is on cards for this horror comedy.

Thamma is directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and produced by Dinesh Vijan and Amar Kaushik

In a regular year, one wouldn’t have fathomed Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat to find a Diwali release for itself. After all, the big day is dominated by the likes of Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, and it was only last year when Kartik Aaryan made inroads and delivered a huge success with Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3. Now, this year, the scale is lesser for both the new releases. Neither is Thamma is an event film, nor is Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat, a film that one associates with a holiday arrival.

Still, here they are, with the big guns making way for the next in line to make the best of the big holiday season ahead and do something good for Bollywood and its box office business. While Thamma is a bigger film, it isn’t the kind that one sees releasing in 4000-5000 screens, which means Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat has eventually earned good showcasing for itself after all the brouhaha that was being evidenced till a couple of days back.

On a regular Friday, this Milap Zaveri directed romantic drama would have seen an opening day of Rs. 5-6 crores. However, superhit music as well as the fact that it has managed good hype for itself due to Diwali clash means that the advance booking is heading well towards 35-40K sales at the PIC. This would be good enough to secure an opening day of Rs. 8 crores with an outside chance of stepping into a double digit zone as well.

There may not be fireworks this Diwali with no superstar bringing his film on the festive occasion. Still, with Thamma belonging to horror comedy universe, there is reasonable buzz around it. The hype may not be strong but there is awareness and that should be good enough for the film to take a good start.

Moreover, this is also a new character inclusion in the universe, unlike Stree, which is established, and Bhediya and Munjya, which will have much bigger opening than their predecessors when their second part comes. In this case, Thamma will start on its own accord with the universe factor propelling it to a good extent and then the big holiday doing its bit.

As a result, though as a standalone film Thamma would have started in Rs. 15-18 crores range with Ayushmann Khurrana working for the multiplex audience and Rashmika Mandana leveraging her popularity at the single screens as well, aforementioned factors mean that a start of Rs. 20 crores is on the cards. Advance booking is progressing well towards 1 lakh mark and then spot booking will further ensure good footfalls, especially in the evening and night shows.

After scoring (extended) first week of Rs. 44 crores, Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari had a second weekend of Rs. 10.33 crores. The fact that second Friday was slightly higher than Thursday allowed the film to have some sort of a trajectory over the weekend gone by and that has allowed it to cross the Rs. 50 crores mark.

The film moved up slightly over its Saturday collections and ended up bringing in Rs. 4.08 crores on Sunday. What the Shashank Khaitan directed romcom would be looking for now is to stay in the vicinity of Rs. 1.50 crore on Monday as that would be less than 50% drop when compared to Friday. Looking at the trending so far, this should be possible as well, more so since there is no competition other than Kantara: Chapter 1 and that too is primarily in Maharashtra as in other places it’s more or less on par or just slightly behind.

The Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor starrer has now collected Rs. 54.33 crores and it would now be aiming to close its second week at Rs. 60 crores. The Karan Johar film has no competition in the third weekend as well.

Note: All collections as per various box office sources

It’s a 50 for Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari! After being in theatres for 10 days, the Karan Johar production has now scored a half century at the box office. The film did open well on the national holiday of Dusshehra and Gandhi Jayanti, and now in its second weekend it’s finding an audience for itself at the key urban centres.

All of that has ensured that collections grew from Friday (Rs. 2.50 crores) to Saturday (Rs. 3.75 crores), and that’s a good sign because Sunday is yet to come which will be the best day of its run in the second week. That should amp up the overall total further post which the countdown begins for its next 10 days before Diwali releases arrive.

Standing at Rs. 50.25 crores, this is now second consecutive half century for Janhvi Kapoor after Param Sundari. Of course, she too would be aiming for a Rs. 100 Crore Club success soon but then romcoms have their own limitations, ever since pandemic, and hence the benchmark is for the numbers to be in the vicinity of Rs. 75 crores.

Note: All collections as per various box office sources