Highest Opening Day Grosser Indian Movies 2023 & All Time

Srk Jawan releases on September 7, 2023 and becomes one of the highest opening day grossers. Even after the release of movies like Jawan, Gadar 2 and Jailer, Om Raut’s Adipurush still holds the record of the Highest Opening Grosser of 2023 in India. Currently, Srk Jawan is getting positive reviews from critics.

The year 2023 started with a bang for the Indian film industry as the January release biggies Pathaan, Varisu, Waltair Veerayya, Veera Simha Reddy and Thunivu took the box office in India by storm.

At the box office north, the Shah Rukh Khan Pathaan emerged as the biggest Hindi opener of 2023. It is the only Bollywood film to have grossed the 100 Cr mark on its opening day at the box office. The film became the highest-grossing Bollywood film ever in India and also joined the 1000 Cr club.

Currently, South Indian movies are dominating the Indian box office. In the high voltage clash ‘Varisu vs. Thunivu’ in January 2023. Thunivu won the race ranking as the fifth highest-grossing Tamil movie of all time. On the other, Chiranjeevi’s Waltair Veerayya and NBK’s Veera Simha Reddy won the hearts of Telugu moviegoers emerging as a commercial success.

Highest Opening Day Grosser Indian Movies 2023

If a movie collects an amount on its opening day at the box office, there are more chances of it becoming a success. The opening day collections are the parameter to predict the success of a movie or judge the star power of the actor.

* All the numbers are in Crore and INR.

All in all, we can say that the Indian box office is thriving because most of the big-ticket films released so far have emerged successful.

Here, we will be taking a look at the highest opening day-grosser Indian Movies in 2023 and all time.

• Highest Grossing Bollywood Movies 2023
• Highest Grossing Telugu Movies 2023 & All Time
• Highest Grossing Tamil Movies 2023 & All Time

Highest Opening Day Grosser Indian Movies All Time

Here we have compiled a list of the highest opening-day-grosser Indian movies of all time. The list includes the likes of RRR, Baahubali2, and KGF2 which are also among the highest-grossing Indian movies of all time WW.

* All the numbers are in Crore and INR.

RRR

Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Star Cast: Jr. Ntr, Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 230 Cr+

Baahubali2: The Conclusion

Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Star Cast: Prabhas, Tamannaah, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati
Release Date: 28 April 2017
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 213 Cr

K.G.F-Chapter2

Director: Prashanth Neel
Star Cast: Yash, Srinidhi Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, Raveen Tandon
Release Date: 14 April 2022
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 165 Cr

Adipurush

Director: Om Raut
Star Cast: Prabhas, Kriti Sanon, Saif Ali Khan
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 140 Cr

Saaho

Director: Sujeeth
Star Cast: Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor,
Release Date: 30 Aug 2019
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 124.6 Cr

2.0

Director: S.Shankar
Star Cast: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson
Release Date: 29 Nov 2018
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 110 Cr

Pathaan

Director: Siddharth Anand
Star Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone
Release Date: 25 Jan 2023
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 106 Cr

Beast

Director: Nelson
Star Cast: Vijay, Pooja Hegde
Release Date: 13 April 2022
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 87.1 Cr

Sye Ra Narsimha Reddy

Director: Surendra Reddy
Star Cast: Chiranjeevi, Nayanthara, Tamannaah, Sudeep, Vijay Sethupathi
Release Date: 2 Oct 2019
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 85.3 Cr

Thugs of Hindostan

Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif
Release Date: 8 Nov 2018
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 76.2 Cr

Baahubali: The Beginning

Director: S.S Rajamouli
Star Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannah, Anushka Shetty
Release Date: 10 July 2015
Opening Day Collection(WW): Rs 73 cr

Over the last decade, south Indian filmmakers have really impressed movie lovers with the kind of projects they came up with, the aforementioned list which features 8 South Indian movies, proves this.

The prominent filmmaker S.S Rajamouli’s magnum opus RRR holds the no.1 rank in the list with a collection of over Rs 230 Cr on opening day worldwide. His, 2017 epic action film Baahubali 2 is the 2nd biggest opener which had raked in Rs 213 Cr on the first day.

Yash’s K.G.F 2 wreaked havoc at the box office, the monster successfully managed to collect Rs 165 Cr on the first day worldwide. Not only this but the Rocky Bhai starrer also broke the record for the highest-grosser Hindi film opening day in India at the time of its release.

It dethroned the Hrithik Roshan starrer War Day 1 collection (Rs 51.60 Cr) by earning Rs 53.95 Cr in Hindi, for a worldwide collection of Rs 165 Cr (all versions) on day 1.

The 2019 trilingual film Saaho is at the fourth spot in the list with a collection of Rs 124.6 Cr, followed by the superstar Rajinikanth starrer 2.0 (Rs 110 Cr).

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