Mahavatar Narasimha has emerged because the highest-grossing animation movie of all time in India. The movie grossed Rs. 8.50 crore approx on its second Friday, taking its complete gross to Rs. 57 crore. This determine doesn’t embody 3D costs, as is the reporting norm in India, together with which the whole gross stands at Rs. 63 crore approx.
Mahavatar Narasimha surpassed the Hollywood movie Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse for the file, whereas the earlier largest homegrown animation was Tamil movie Kochadaiiyaan that includes Celebrity Rajnikanth. The file got here in simply eight days of launch, and with the form of momentum the movie has caught, will probably be setting the bar fairly excessive this time.
Animation movies are extraordinarily standard internationally, boasting a number of the largest grossers ever. Simply this 12 months, Chinese language animation Ne Zha 2 obliterated field workplace information within the nation, grossing over USD 2 billion. Final 12 months, Inside Out 2 did super enterprise internationally. In a number of international locations, animation is the preferred style for movie-going. Nevertheless, in India, it has only a few takers. The style is commonly regarded down on as “children cinema”, and in India, children don’t drive the field workplace.
The non secular animation does have some attraction, however aside from Punjabi movie Chaar Sahibzade, nothing has discovered the success pan-India or in Hindi, that’s, till now. Mahavatar Narasimha is the primary within the introduced cinematic universe of seven movies. The hope is that this movie and franchise will break the stigma and unlock the huge potential of animation that has already delivered blockbusters worldwide.
The Highest Grossing Animated Movies in India are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Yr | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mahavatar Narasimha | 2025 | Rs. 57.00 cr. |
| 2 | Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse | 2023 | Rs. 55.50 cr. |
| 3 | Incredibles 2 | 2018 | Rs. 54.50 cr. |
| 4 | Frozen 2 | 2019 | Rs. 54.00 cr. |
| 5 | Kochadaiiyan | 2014 | Rs. 52.00 cr. |
| 6 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | 2024 | Rs. 43.00 cr. |
| 7 | Inside Out 2 | 2024 | Rs. 38.00 cr. |
| 8 | Moana 2 | 2024 | Rs. 31.50 cr. |
| 9 | Kung Fu Panda 3 | 2016 | Rs. 30.75 cr. |
| 10 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | 2011 | Rs. 28.50 cr. |
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