MUMBAI: After a sharp dip in March, April 2025 saw momentum being regained at the India box office. April 2025 was a steady month at the India Box Office, recording ₹825 Crores in gross collections, with four films grossing over ₹100 Crores. Ormax Media’s India Box Office Report: April 2025 has been published
Other Findings:
– The cumulative box office for January-April releases in 2025 stands at Rs. 3,691 Crores, which is 19% higher compared to the same period in 2024.
– ‘Good Bad Ugly’ emerged as the top film of the month, grossing over Rs. 180 Crores., followed by ‘Thudarum’, which grossed almost ₹150 Crores. Since Thudarum’s Tamil version released in May 2025, only the Malayalam and Telugu language box office for the film have been considered in this report.
– The other films to cross the Rs. 100 Crores gross mark in April 2025 are Hindi films ‘Kesari Chapter 2’ and ‘Jaat’, starring Akshay Kumar and Sunny Deol respectively.
– Malayalam cinema grossed over ₹225 Crores in April 2025, making it the second best month of all time for the language, after February 2024
The monthly feature The India Box Office Report tracks the performance of the various films released every month at the Indian (domestic) box office.
Hindi and Telugu languages lead the list of the top grossers of 2025 so far with three films each. With the addition of ‘Good Bad Ugly’ and ‘Thudarum’, Tamil and Malayalam languages now have two films each in the top 10 films of 2025. There is currently no Hollywood film in the list, but we can expect that to change in May 2025, with the release of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Malayalam cinema’s share stands at an all-time high of 13%, only four percentage points beyond Tamil cinema. The 13% share is especially creditable because it’s higher than the 10% share in 2024, which was the best-ever year for Malayalam cinema at the box office by some margin.
