Dhurandhar 2 tops ₹250 crore in south
- Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2 is being credited with a rare feat for a Hindi film — a reported ₹250 crore haul from South India alone. - The standout detail is Telugu-state strength, where trade coverage says the film even outperformed recent Prabhas benchmarks on his home turf. - If the numbers hold, this shifts the pan-India bar for Bollywood from dubbed reach to sustained southern box-office muscle.
A Hindi box-office hit doing well in the South is not new. A Hindi film pulling a reported ₹250 crore from the southern markets alone is the part that makes people in the trade sit up. That is the claim now attached to Dhurandhar 2 — the Ranveer Singh, Aditya Dhar sequel that has turned from a big opener into a genuine all-regions phenomenon. The reason this matters is simple: “pan-India” usually gets used loosely. This run makes the term feel more literal. (timesnownews.com) ### What is the actual news? The fresh talking point is the South India number. Multiple entertainment reports now peg Dhurandhar 2’s southern haul at about ₹250 crore, while broader India-net estimates put the film near ₹1,10(timesnownews.com)elt or overseas business. (hindustantimes.com) ### Why is ₹250 crore in the South such a big deal? Because southern markets are usually where dubbed Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam event films dominate, and where Hindi films often top out after (hindustantimes.com)eople kept showing up.” (timesnownews.com) ### Why does the Prabhas comparison keep coming up? Because Prabhas is one of the clearest symbols of the pan-India South blockbuster era. The coverage around Dhurandhar 2 says the film’s Telugu-state performance has beaten re(timesnownews.com)terial available publicly today — so the broad trend is clearer than the exact one-film-against-another margin. (timesnownews.com) ### So is this really Bollywood’s first “modern” pan-India hit? That’s the argument being made. Plenty of Hindi films have been national smashes before, and some dubbed versions have traveled well. But the phrase “modern pan-I(timesnownews.com)blockbuster and more like a category break. (newsbytesapp.com) ### What helped the movie travel this far? Sequels help. Scale helps. And spy-action revenge stories travel well when the emotional pitch is simple and the spectacle is loud enough to survive dubbing and regional barriers. Dhurandhar 2 also arrived with massive opening-day momentum — Times Now’s early live co(newsbytesapp.com)an spill across language markets fast. (timesnownews.com) ### Is there any reason to be cautious? Yes — box-office reporting in India is fast, competitive, and often mixes net, gross, India, overseas, and regional estimates in ways that can blur the picture. The broad conc(timesnownews.com)territory numbers emerge. (timesnownews.com) ### What does this change for the industry? It raises the target. A Bollywood film can no longer claim pan-India status just because it opened in multiple languages and trended online everywhere. The tougher test is whether southern audiences keep buying tickets week after week. Dhurandhar 2 appears to have done that — and if that holds, producers will chase this model hard. (hindustantimes.com) ### Bottom line The headline is not just that Dhurandhar 2 made a lot of money. It is where that money came from. If a Hindi film can really pull ₹250 crore from the South, the map of what counts as a national blockbuster just got redrawn.
