Dhurandhar's record totals come from private trackers, and the reference tables disagree with each other

Dhurandhar: The Revenge opened in cinemas on 19 March 2026 and is now credited with a worldwide gross of 1,852.44 crore rupees, which would place it second among Indian films of all time behind Dangal (2016). Its predecessor, Dhurandhar, released on 5 December 2025 and is credited with a range of 1,350.83 crore to 1,428 crore. Both were directed by Aditya Dhar, led by Ranveer Singh, and produced by Jio Studios with B62 Studios, on a combined budget reported at 250 crore to 255 crore.

Every one of those numbers is an estimate produced by a private trade tracker. India has no statutory box office audit. Exhibitors file no returns to a regulator, and no government body publishes verified admissions or takings for Indian cinemas. English Wikipedia, where most readers meet these totals, says so on the face of its own highest grossing list: there is "no official tracking of figures and sources publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates".

The consequence is visible on the same page. Several entries are given not as a figure but as a range, because the trackers do not agree. Dangal is listed at 1,968 crore to 2,054 crore. Pushpa 2: The Rule is listed at 1,642 crore to 1,800 crore, a spread of 158 crore, which is larger than the entire lifetime gross of most Hindi releases. The first Dhurandhar carries a spread of about 77 crore. Only where a single tracker is relied on does a total arrive with two decimal places attached, as 1,852.44 crore does.

The franchise claim is shakier still. The Wikipedia article on Dhurandhar: The Revenge states that the two film series, at a combined 3,203.27 crore, is the highest grossing Indian film franchise, surpassing Baahubali and Pushpa. The franchise table on Wikipedia's list of highest grossing Indian films, updated from the same underlying trackers, ranks the YRF Spy Universe first at 3,292.98 crore across seven films, with Dhurandhar second at 3,203.27 crore. Both statements sit on the same encyclopedia at the same time. Which one is true depends entirely on whether a seven film shared universe counts as a franchise, a question no auditor has ever been asked to settle.

The India figure is the least stable of all, because two different quantities circulate under similar words. Bollywood Hungama's box office table gives Dhurandhar: The Revenge a lifetime India net of 1,108.09 crore and a verdict of "All Time Blockbuster", and describes its own output as "trade-backed box office updates and verified collection reports" without setting out a method. Wikipedia's article on the film puts India at 1,361 crore and records the film crossing 1,000 crore net across all languages on 6 April 2026. Gulf News, reporting on 31 March 2026, gave a worldwide total of 13.922 billion rupees after twelve days, an India net of 8,721.7 million, an India gross above 10 billion, an opening day of 1.45 billion and advance bookings of 2 billion. It named no tracker for any of them. Box Office India, which reports separately in "nett" and "gross", had no figures populated on its 2026 index pages when they were checked on 17 August 2026.

The estimates do not stay in the trade press. In CS(COMM) 626/2026, the actor Varun Dhawan's personality rights suit, Justice Jyoti Singh's signed order of 29 May 2026 records his pleaded case that Dilwale (2015) produced "a domestic net of approximately Rs.148.42 Crore and worldwide gross of approximately Rs.388 Crore", and that "Industry analysts have estimated that Plaintiff's commercial success ratio i.e. hits versus total releases is 81.25%". The court had no reason to test any of it, because the figures went to proving fame rather than money owed. It is a small illustration of a large point: tracker estimates pass unexamined into judicial orders, encyclopedias and newspapers, and there is no document further upstream to check them against.

What remains unknown is the thing a regulator would publish. Nobody outside the distributors can verify admissions, rentals, or the distributor share behind any of these totals. Wikipedia states the film drew more than four crore admissions and did not release in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries or in China. Neither claim can be checked against an official return, because in India no such return exists.