After collecting ₹100 crore gross on its first day, Prabhas’s The Raja Saab is witnessing a massive drop in advance bookings for Day 3 across all regions. The film now depends heavily on strong walk-ins to post decent numbers tomorrow.

In Hyderabad, Day 3 advance bookings on BookMyShow stand at ₹2.65 crore, which is only a 53% hold compared to Day 2. This is a worrying sign, clearly indicating that word of mouth and reviews are starting to affect the film’s performance.

The Raja Saab needs to deliver big on its third day

While The Raja Saab managed reasonably decent bookings on Day 2, the massive drop on Day 3 is not a positive trend for its box office run. Sunday collections are now crucial, as the film needs massive walk-ins to recover momentum.

After Sunday, the film is expected to face a strong pre-festival effect on Monday and Tuesday. It will also encounter fresh competition from Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu. Considering all these factors, tomorrow’s collections will be very important, and the film must make the most of the weekend to secure big numbers at the box office.

The Raja Saab’s Hindi version sees a mediocre start at the box office with 6 Cr nett, and on day 2 the film is not seeing any jump. The shocking part is that today, Dhurandar, which was released last month, is doing much better than Prabhas’s movie at the box office. 

On its 37th day, Dhurandhar is doing better than The Raja Saab’s Hindi version on its 2nd day. The tracked gross till 6:35 PM for Ranveer Singh’s film stands at ₹4.41 Cr with 26% occupancy, while The Raja Saab’s tracked gross stands at ₹3.39 Cr with 12% occupancy, which is very poor.

With this trend the film may not see many numbers after the weekend, and even doing 50 Cr net in a full run looks impossible for the film.

Excel Radhe Shyam, all films of Prabhas have done well in North India, but now, his latest film, The Raja Saab, is heading towards a big failure at the box office. 

The first biggie of 2026 for Telugu Cinema, The Raja Saab starring Prabhas, arrived in theaters on January 9th, and the film opened with decent collections on day 1 despite getting mixed reviews unanimously. The film’s gross collections have crossed 100 Cr, making it the 6th one for Prabhas in his career. 

The Raja Saab 1st day Gross (Approx)

Telugu States Including Hires

• Telangana: 22 Cr
• Ceeded : 8 Cr
• Andhra : 31 Cr
• Karnataka: 8 Cr
• TN + Kerala: 2 Cr
• North India : 8 Cr
• Overseas: 24 Cr
• Total Gross – 103 Cr

The film needs to collect more than 400 Cr gross to achieve the breakeven; more than 90% of the collections will come from the Telugu version, as the other languages did not give much positive response to it. This is a disappointing thing for a pan-Indian film.

Fans are sharing the numbers on social media, highlighting that Prabhas’s The Raja Saab scored decent collections on the first day despite getting negative reviews. But the film needs to continue doing so in the festival days to achieve a positive result at the box office. 

With a set of huge expectations among fans around its theatrical performance, Prabhas and Maruthi’s The Raja Saab, produced by People Media Factory, arrived in theaters yesterday, and the film’s 1st-day area-wise collections are out now. 

The Raja Saab 1st Day Telugu Version share (Including GST and Hires)

Nizam : 17 Cr
Ceeded : 5.9 Cr
Uttarandhra: 5.75 Cr
East : 5.2 Cr
West : 3.5 Cr
Krishna : 3.1 Cr
Guntur : 3.4 Cr
Nellore : 1.95 Cr
ROI: 4 Cr
Overseas: 12 Cr

So, the worldwide share of the film on its first day is around 62 Cr (61.8 Cr to be precise), and the Telugu version’s theatrical rights are valued at more than 160 Cr. The film has a good start and needs to hold strong on the weekend and festival days. 

If we observe the area-wise collections of The Raja Saab, Nizam emerges as the biggest performing territory, while the other languages’ performance is not that great. The film needs to collect another 100 Cr share from now on to achieve a hit status.