Ranabaali Opens as Trackers Estimate First-Day Gross

Ranabaali opened in cinemas on October 16, with box-office trackers reporting advance sales and an estimated first-day worldwide gross for the Telugu period action drama starring Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna. The opening-day gross estimate was ₹12 crore to ₹15 crore, but no audited final collection was supplied in the reports available that day. The figures vary by measure and scope. One tracker estimated ₹8 crore in worldwide advance bookings and put the film’s first-day gross at ₹12 crore to ₹15 crore. A separate booking report recorded ₹6.49 crore in advance sales across six show dates, including blocked seats, or ₹4.93 crore excluding them. Those figures cover different booking scopes and are not directly comparable. The booking report put first-day sales at ₹2.33 crore gross across 1,639 shows at 464 cinemas in 203 cities. It reported sales of 1.55 lakh tickets and average occupancy of 24 percent, with six shows selling out. Hyderabad led the city figures at ₹84.53 lakh gross, followed by Bengaluru and Visakhapatnam. These are tracker-reported booking figures rather than a final box-office statement. The film, directed by Rahul Sankrityan, is set during British...