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

Cumulative Box Office: August 2025

After a strong July 2025, the Indian Box Office sustained momentum in August, grossing ₹1,136 Cr, including projected future collections of August releases still running in theatres. Coolie, War 2, and Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra were the major contributors, accounting for nearly 70% of the month’s total box office earnings between them.

The cumulative box office for 2025 releases stands at ₹8,370 Cr, which is 21% 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 August 2025, based on their box office performance in India.

Coolie is the top film of the month, with gross box office of ₹325 Cr across languages, and is now the third-highest grosser of 2025, behind Hindi films Chhaava and Saiyaara. War 2 follows Coolie, grossing ₹283 Cr at the domestic box office, with the Hindi version contributing more than 75% to the number.

Hindi and Malayalam releases dominate the list of the month’s Top 10 films, with four and three films respectively. The list also features two Gujarati releases, Vash Level 2 and Bachu Ni Benpani, with the former earning about 50% of its box office from the Hindi dubbed version, aided by the success of Hindi remake (Shaitaan) of the first film in the series.

With the addition of War 2, Hindi language now has six films in the list of 2025’s top 10 highest-grossing films, not counting 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 Hollywood, the data for all languages is reported under the language head ‘Hollywood’.

Hindi continues to maintain 40% share of the India box office, in line with last year. The success of the Onam releases, Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra and Hridayapoorvam, has boosted Malayalam language's share from 8% (Jan-Jul) to 10% (Jan-Aug), bringing it back to the 2024 level, which was the best-ever year for Malayalam cinema.

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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