Even before its release, Dhurandhar: The Revenge has ensured a double-digit opening. As of Sunday, the advance booking of the film’s paid previews, which will be shown on Wednesday (March 18), has already made the film Rs 18.11 crore (which includes about Rs 6 crore block bookings) with 2 lakh tickets sold.

As per Sacnilk.com, on Saturday the film’s trailer dropped at 11 am and the advance bookings opened alongside. In 24 hours, 1.2 lakh tickets were sold and the film earned Rs 10 crore. The next day on Sunday, Dhurandhar 2 sold an additional 80,000 tickets and made about Rs 8.11 crore more.

If one excludes the block bookings, out of the Rs 12.30 crore earned from the sale of 2,06367 tickets, the majority share belongs to the native Hindi version at Rs 12 crore (from 1,94,514 tickets). Additionally, the Dolby Cine version has collected Rs 64,050 (from 80 tickets)

The Hindi version is followed by the dubbed Tamil version at Rs 9.9 lakh (from 7,317 tickets). The Tamil version has overtaken the dubbed Telugu version, which had the bigger share on Saturday. By Sunday, however, its share grew only marginally and concluded at Rs 9.6 lakh (from 3920 tickets). In the Telugu market, Dhurandhar 2 will face tough competition from Harish Shankar’s action thriller Ustaad Bhagat Singh, starring Pawan Kalyan, which is also slated to release in cinemas on March 19 on the occasion of Eid, Ugadi, and Gudi Padwa.

The Telugu version of Dhurandhar 2 is followed by the dubbed Malayalam version at Rs 96, 114 (from 338 tickets). The smallest share belongs to the dubbed Kannada version at Rs 67,150 (from 198 tickets). In that market, the film has still benefitted from avoiding a clash with Geethu Mohandas’ Kannada action thriller Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grownups after the Yash-starrer was postponed owing to the ongoing Gulf War.

With still 10 days to go for the paid previews, Dhurandhar 2 has already scored the biggest Bollywood premiere ever, beating the record held by Amar Kaushik’s 2024 horror comedy Stree 2, starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor among others. That film had earned Rs 8.50 crore gross (and Rs 10 crore net) from the advance sales of its paid previews.

In fact, Dhurandhar 2 is already the sixth highest grossing Hindi film at the domestic box office this year, after Sunny Deol-starrer Border 2 (Rs 361.79 crore), Shahid Kapoor-starrer O’ Romeo (Rs 79.26 crore), Rani Mukerji-starrer Mardaani 3 (Rs 51.62 crore), Agastya Nanda-starrer Ikkis (Rs 36.25 crore), and Vipul Shah-produced The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond (Rs 25.40 crore).

Directed by Aditya Dhar, Dhurandhar 2 will star Ranveer Singh, Sanjay Dutt, R Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, Sara Arjun, and Rakesh Bedi among others.