Rajkummar Rao’s Prahaar earned Rs 65 lakh net in India on Day 17. Its worldwide gross has now crossed Rs 30.61 crore, with most of that money coming from India alone.
Updated: 2 November 2026, 10:00 IST
Quick Read
- Day 17 (Sunday, 1 Nov): Rs 65 lakh net in India, up 8.3% on Day 16’s Rs 60 lakh.
- India net total: Rs 23.25 crore; India gross Rs 27.58 crore; overseas Rs 3.03 crore.
- Worldwide gross: Rs 30.61 crore from 940 shows on Day 17, at 22.54% occupancy.
Rajkummar Rao’s film passes Rs 30 crore
Prahaar: The Ujjwal Nikam Story has crossed Rs 30 crore worldwide. Trade tracker Sacnilk estimates it earned Rs 65 lakh net in India on Day 17, Sunday 1 November 2026. That’s an 8.3% rise on Day 16, when it earned Rs 60 lakh. The film ran on 940 shows on Sunday and sold about 29,701 tickets. Overall occupancy was 22.54%. Evening shows were strongest at 28.85%, while mornings managed just 5.08%. The film released on 16 October 2026. It’s a Hindi biographical legal drama directed by Avinash Arun. Rajkummar Rao plays public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, with Wamiqa Gabbi also in the lead. The story draws on Nikam’s work in major criminal trials, including the 1993 Bombay blasts and 2008 Mumbai terror attack cases. All figures here are trade estimates, not studio-confirmed totals. Three sources agree on the Day 17 line: The Times of India citing Sacnilk, ScreenStat, and NewsBytes, backed by Sacnilk’s own movie page.
The totals so far
India net now stands at Rs 23.25 crore. India gross stands at Rs 27.58 crore. Overseas gross stands at Rs 3.03 crore. Add India gross and overseas: Rs 27.58 crore plus Rs 3.03 crore equals Rs 30.61 crore worldwide. Overseas is only 9.9% of the worldwide total. This is, in plain terms, a domestic film. Its fate rests on Indian screens, not on foreign markets. The opening week brought Rs 17.15 crore in India net. Week 2 brought just Rs 4.50 crore — a 73.8% fall. Week 3 so far has added Rs 1.60 crore. Sunday’s Rs 65 lakh is part of that Week 3 figure.
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Added context: Week 1 is still most of the film
Here’s our own desk maths from Sacnilk’s week splits. Week 1’s Rs 17.15 crore is about 74% of the film’s entire Rs 23.25 crore India net total. In other words, nearly three-quarters of everything the film has earned in India came in its first seven days. The average ticket price on Day 17 works out to about Rs 219 (Rs 65 lakh divided by 29,701 tickets). That’s a normal multiplex-range price, which tells us the film isn’t discounting hard to fill seats. The problem is show count and footfall, not ticket price. Total tickets sold across the run have reached 10,73,377, per the Times of India report. At the current pace of under 30,000 tickets a day, the film would need many more weeks to add even Rs 2 crore net. Ramayana arrives in 3 days, so that time is unlikely to come.
A note on budget figures
One honest flag: reports disagree on what Prahaar cost, so this post gives no hit-or-flop verdict. One NewsBytes piece cites an estimated overall cost of around Rs 70 crore including prints and advertising. Another NewsBytes piece cites a Rs 60 crore budget figure. With that much spread, and no confirmed studio budget, any verdict would be guesswork. What can be said safely is this: at Rs 30.61 crore worldwide gross, the film is well short of either reported cost figure on theatrical gross alone. Theatrical gross is not what the makers keep — tax, exhibitor shares, and distribution costs all come out first — so the gap to recovery is wider than the headline numbers suggest. On the numbers themselves, there is no material conflict. NewsBytes’ Day 16 position (Rs 22.60 crore net, Rs 29.84 crore worldwide) plus Day 17’s Rs 65 lakh net lines up cleanly with the Times of India’s Day 17 totals (Rs 23.25 crore net, Rs 30.61 crore worldwide). Two trackers, same story.
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What comes next
Ramayana releases on 5 November, with paid previews on 4 November. Prahaar, already down to 940 shows, will lose more screens. Its realistic path now is a slow drift upward, not a late surge. For Rajkummar Rao’s fans, the film’s value was never just the box office. A courtroom biopic about a real prosecutor was always a niche bet next to big commercial releases. The Rs 30 crore worldwide mark is a decent line to cross for that kind of film, even if the run as a whole stays modest.
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FAQ
Q: How much did Prahaar earn on Day 17? A: Trade tracker Sacnilk estimates Rs 65 lakh net in India on Day 17 (Sunday, 1 November 2026), up 8.3% on Day 16’s Rs 60 lakh, from 940 shows.
Q: What is Prahaar’s worldwide total? A: Rs 30.61 crore gross — Rs 27.58 crore India gross plus Rs 3.03 crore overseas. India net stands at Rs 23.25 crore.
Q: Is Prahaar a hit or a flop? A: No firm verdict is possible yet. Reported cost figures disagree (Rs 60 crore in one NewsBytes piece, ~Rs 70 crore including prints and advertising in another), and no studio budget is confirmed. On theatrical gross alone it trails both figures.
