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

Cumulative Box Office: September 2025

September 2025 marked the third consecutive month with total collections exceeding the ₹1,000 Cr mark at the Indian Box Office, grossing ₹1,035 Cr, including projected future collections of September releases still running in theatres.

The cumulative box office for 2025 releases stands at ₹9,409 Cr, which is 18% higher than the same period in 2024.  Based on pro rata estimation, the year stands 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 September 2025, based on their box office performance in India.

Telugu film They Call Him OG is the top film of the month, grossing ₹224 Cr, followed by Hindi film Jolly LLB 3, which is expected to gross ₹139 Cr at the domestic box office over its lifetime run. Telugu film Mirai, and the Hollywood horror franchise film The Conjuring: Last Rites, were the other major contributors to the month's box office.

Marathi film Dashavatar features in the list of the highest grossers of the month. At ₹30 Cr, its gross box office is more than three times that of any other Marathi film released in 2025 so far.

Hindi language continues to dominate the list of 2025’s top 10 highest-grossing films, with six films. The list also includes two Telugu films, one Tamil film, and the multi-lingual animated feature 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 International films (Hollywood and other global markets), the data for all languages is reported under the language head ‘International’.

The share of Hindi language has dropped from 40% (Jan-Aug) to 38% (Jan-Sep), while They Call Him OG and Mirai’s box office performance has boosted Telugu language’s share from 18% to 20% in the same period. International films have also seen an increase in share from 10% to 12%, bringing it back to the 2022 level. Hollywood film The Conjuring: The Last Rites, and the Japanese anime film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, are the most significant contributors to this increase in September 2025.

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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