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. This is the July 2025 edition of the report. You can access the previous reports in the Insights section of this website.

Cumulative Box Office: July 2025

July 2025 has emerged as the strongest month at the Indian box office so far this year, with total collections reaching ₹1,430 Cr. This figure includes projected earnings from July releases still running in theatres. After a relatively-muted June, the surge in July was driven primarily by two titles: Hindi film Saiyaara and the multi-lingual animated feature Mahavatar Narsimha, which together contributed over 45% of the month’s total gross box office.

The cumulative box office for 2025 releases stands at ₹7,175 Cr, which is 22% higher than the same period in 2024. Based on pro rata estimation, the year has a good chance of grossing more than ₹12,000 Cr, and is in the running to become the best-ever year at the Indian box office - a record currently held by 2023, at ₹12,226 Cr (see Ormax Box Office annual reports for 2023 and 2024).

Top 10 Films

The chart below lists the top 10 films released in July 2025, based on their box office performance in India.

Saiyaara topped the box office in July 2025, grossing ₹392 Cr, making it the second-highest grossing film of the year so far, behind Chhaava. Mahavatar Narsimha follows Saiyaara, grossing ₹259 Cr at the domestic box office (including projected collections), with the Hindi version contributing 75% of its total domestic earnings.

Hollywood continues its strong run in India, with three titles featuring in this month’s Top 10 list: Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman & The Fantastic Four: The First Steps.

Hindi dominates the list of highest-grossing films of 2025 so far, with five titles in the Top 10, not including the multi-lingual Mahavatar Narsimha.

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 continued success of Hollywood films in July has boosted Hollywood’s share from 10% (Jan-Jun) to 12% (Jan-Jul), which is now at par with 2022, and higher than 2023 (9%) and 2024 (8%). Kannada language’s share also increased from under 1% in June to over 2% in July, driven by the success of horror-comedy Su From So, while the share of Malayalam titles has dropped from 10% in June to 8% in July.

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.

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