'Ramayana' Day 8 Box Office Collection: How much does the Ranbir Kapoor epic need to join ₹1,000-crore club worldwide?

Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is making box office records by the day, and is now eyeing the ₹1,000-crore club worldwide on day eight of its theatrical run.

This comes just a day after it completed a record-breaking first week in cinemas—the third-best first week in cinemas of all time, just behind Dhurandhar 2 and Pushpa 2, both of which had entered the ₹1,000-crore club for worldwide gross within their first week.

Nitesh Tiwari's epic, however, has managed to earn ₹935 crore in worldwide gross, as of 11:20 AM on Thursday, as per a report from box office tracker Sacnilk.

This means it is just ₹65 crore away from smashing the ₹1,000-crore milestone by Thursday night. Notably, this is also the day the film releases in Hong Kong, which is expected to boost its total overseas haul, and in turn, its worldwide gross.

As of 5 PM on Thursday (day eight), the film has so far raked in ₹28.84 crore from 16,267 shows, the report added.

The Hindi screenings continue to rule the roost, contributing ₹23.99 crore from 13,606 shows. 699 Kannada screenings raked in ₹2.18 crore, 649 Tamil shows collected ₹1.35 crore, and 1,313 Telugu shows collected ₹1.32 crore.

This has taken its total India gross collection to ₹645.08 crore as of now, while its total India net collection has reached ₹539.94 crore so far.

Also starring an ensemble cast including Yash, Sai Pallavi, Sunny Deol, Ravi Dubey, and Kajal Aggarwal, among others, the film faces another challenge in its journey to the ₹1,000-crore worldwide club on Thursday.

Though the film reportedly set all-time box office records for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday collections—one after the other—it has also faced dips in India net haul over the past few days.

In box office tracking, single-day records are measured by comparing a film's earnings on a particular day of the week with the highest collections of all time recorded for various films on that same day.

Despite the hat-trick records and a shocking 91.5 per cent resurgence in India net figures on Monday, the day after Diwali—but also the second-last day of the Diwali week—it then saw small weekday dips of 12.5 per cent on Tuesday, and a larger 24.9 per cent fall on Wednesday, which marked the end of its first week in cinemas.

It is yet to be seen whether the film can reach the ₹1,000-crore mark on Thursday itself, despite the dips, or whether it will take Friday's collection to do so.