Ranabaali: fans defend it, critics don't, and the box office is slowing

Box office · Fan war · updated 2026-10-27

Most critics and YouTube creators found it slow and overlong; some also found it too violent. Under their videos, 109 comments pushed back against the reviewer and only 10 agreed, many calling the reviews paid. Trackers show takings falling in week two while the Telugu version of Jailer 2 holds strong.

The facts

1. Sacnilk's day-wise tracker shows Ranabaali opening at ₹9.25 crore India net on 16 October, earning ₹2.80 crore and ₹2.90 crore on its second Saturday and Sunday, and ₹1.25 crore on 26 October; its running totals are ₹54.25 crore India net, ₹63.05 crore India gross, ₹12.10 crore overseas and ₹75.15 crore worldwide. Sacnilk
2. The Week, using Sacnilk data, reported a first-week worldwide gross of ₹63.65 crore and quoted trade analysts as putting break-even at roughly ₹130 crore worldwide gross, about double what it had made by then. The Week
3. Deccan Chronicle, quoting an unnamed distributor, reported that over Dasara the dubbed Jailer 2 had earned about ₹22 crore in the two Telugu states against about ₹14 crore for Ranabaali, which it said needed roughly ₹25 crore more to recover there. Deccan Chronicle

₹75.15 cr worldwide, 11 days (Sacnilk)