MUMBAI: After two months of strong box office performance, March 2025 turned out to be a low-key month, grossing only at the domestic box office, including projected future collections of March releases still running in theatres. The collections of the month were led by the Eid releases, ‘L2E Empuraan’ and ‘Sikandar’, which both grossing more than ₹120 Croresd.
Ormax Media’s Box Office Report noted that films that released in March 2025 grossed Rs. 585 Crores at the domestic box office.
– The cumulative box office for Jan-Feb releases in 2025 stands at Rs. 2,868 Crores, which is 9% higher compared to the same period in 2024
– ‘L2E Empuraan’ emerged as the top-grossing film of the month, narrowly edging out ‘Sikandar’
– The four highest-grossing films of the month were films that released during the festive Eid period
Ormax Media’s feature The India Box Office Report tracks the performance of the various films released every month at the Indian (domestic) box office.
‘L2E Empuraan’ has emerged as the top-grossing film of the month, grossing Rs. 129 Crores, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time. The Salman Khan starrer ‘Sikandar’ turned out to be an underperformer at the box office, given its starcast and budget, grossing a modest Rs. 122 Crores. The other releases to gross above Rs. 50 Crores was the Telugu comedy sequel ‘MAD Square’ and the Tamil film ‘Veera Dheera Sooran Part-2’, starring Vikram. All four highest-grossing films of the month released during the festive Eid period.
‘L2E Empuraan’ and ‘Sikandar’ are the latest additions to the list, with the former being the first Malayalam film to feature in this list in 2025. Telugu films continue to lead the representation in this list, with four films.
For language share calculation, language-wise box office of films releasing in multiple languages is assigned to the corresponding language. However, for Hollywood, the data for all languages is reported under the language head ‘Hollywood’.
Because of the box office performance of L2E Empuraan, the Malayalam language share at 9% this year is closer to its share in 2024, (10%).
