Our monthly feature The India Box Office Report tracks the performance of the various films released every month at the Indian (domestic) box office. Monthly reports are published on this website in the third week of the following month. In this mid-year edition, we look at the overall performance of the Indian box office in the six-month period, i.e., Jan-Jun 2025. You can access the previous reports in the Insights section of this website.

Cumulative Box Office: Jan-Jun 2025

The cumulative box office for Jan-Jun releases stands at ₹5,723 Cr, which is 14% higher than the same period in 2024, and just ₹12 Cr short of the 2022 record for Jan-Jun box office.

June 2025 was another steady month at the India box office, with gross collections crossing ₹900 Cr, including projected future collections of June releases still running in theatres. Hindi films Sitaare Zameen Par & Housefull 5 emerged as the top grossers of the month, touching the ₹200 Cr gross mark. Kuberaa (Tamil/ Telugu) and F1: The Movie (Hollywood) were the other major contributors to the month’s box office.

Over the last two years, the Jan-Jun period has contributed 42% to the annual box office. Applying that proportion, 2025 can be expected to close at ₹13,500 Cr, which will make it the best year ever at the India box office. Whether that happens on not will depend on the performance of the big releases lined up in the second half of the year, such as Kantara: Chapter 1, Avatar: Fire and Ash, War 2, Coolie, Akhanda 2, Thama, OG, etc.

Top Films: Jan-Jun 2025

17 films crossed the ₹100 Cr gross mark in the first half of 2025, compared to only 10 films in 2024. With only one film crossing ₹250 Cr, the year so far has relied less on the big-ticket blockbusters, and more on a steady flow of films that have collected above ₹100 Cr. Chhaava was the highest-grossing film in the first half of 2025 by a wide margin, followed by the Telugu film Sankranthiki Vasthunam.

Language share

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’. 

The shares of various languages are very similar to the cumulative figures of 2024, where Hindi led with 40% share, followed by Telugu and Tamil at 20% and 15% respectively. Hollywood has returned to the double-digit share after three years, having last crossed the 10% mark in 2022.

How to read the numbers in this report?

Different language industries follow different reporting conventions (Gross, Nett or Share). We have used Gross Box Office as the unified measure for this report. For films releasing in multiple languages, collections are added up across languages to arrive at the film’s Gross Box Office at an all-India level.

Some films may be running in theatres at the time of publishing this report every month. For these films, Gross Box Office is estimated based on the latest trends available. Hence, it is normal that some numbers may be updated in the following month’s report, once actual collections have been estimated.

Numbers for a film are assigned to the month of its release, even if the business is spread over two or more months. For example, Kalki 2898 AD released on June 27, 2024, and a sizeable component of the film’s business was registered in July 2024. However, in the analysis, Kalki 2898 AD’s entire box office has been credited to the month of June.