Dhamaal 4 collected ₹28.50 crore net on its third day, taking the Ajay Devgn comedy's opening weekend to ₹65 crore in India, according to Sacnilk. That weekend total puts Dhamaal 4 ahead of Welcome to the Jungle’s opening-day pace, even though the Akshay Kumar film had started slightly higher on Day 1.

The numbers matter beyond bragging rights. With Welcome to the Jungle still running and Alpha already in theatres, Dhamaal 4 was expected to face pressure for screens and audience attention and were expected to squeeze out a fourth Dhamaal instalment built on a franchise that last released years ago. Instead, the film directed by Indra Kumar has shown that a familiar comedy brand can still pull families into theatres if word of mouth turns positive, as TUI reported in its coverage of Alpha's slower box office recovery.

A slow Friday, then a sharp turn

The film opened at ₹14 crore net on Friday, July 10, a modest start for the Dhamaal franchise. Welcome to the Jungle had opened higher, at ₹15.25 crore on its first day, per Pragativadi.

The gap closed fast. Sacnilk put Saturday's collection at ₹22.50 crore net, a jump of roughly 60% over day one. A separate tracking by Koimoi recorded Saturday at ₹23.31 crore, still enough to make it the third-biggest first Saturday of 2026, behind Border 2's ₹40.59 crore and ahead of Bhooth Bangla's ₹21.74 crore.

Sunday added ₹28.50 crore, a 26.7% rise on Saturday's number. Occupancy told the same story through the day: morning shows ran at roughly 20%, per Bollywood Hungama, before surging to 46% in the afternoon and 50% by evening.

Where the money came from

Multiplexes carried much of Sunday's business. PVR, INOX and Cinepolis together brought in ₹3.89 crore by noon on day three, close to 46% of the film's entire India collection at that point, Bollywood Hungama reported.

Ticketing data backs the theater-level numbers.Ticketing and occupancy trends also pointed to strong weekend demand, with Dhamaal 4 gaining sharply from Saturday to Sunday across multiplexes and single screens, ranking third among 2026 releases and ahead of both Welcome to the Jungle (1.19 million) and Bhooth Bangla (1.16 million), per Sacnilk.

The film also opened wider than trade had expected. The film also ran across more than 10,000 shows, giving exhibitors room to add or retain screenings once weekend demand picked up. 

What trade and critics are saying

Trade analyst Taran Adarsh described the audience response as reaching well beyond big cities. "The response has been phenomenal across the board, from multiplexes to single screens, and from urban centres to Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets," he told Republic World.

Adarsh, reviewing the film for Sacnilk, was blunter about the film itself: "Dhamaal 4 lives up to its title, taking the madness to an altogether new level... Don't look for logic, this one's a stressbuster." That mixed but ultimately positive framing, comedy over coherence, seems to match how audiences are treating it: as a weekend outing rather than a film to dissect.

The bigger picture

Put together, the Dhamaal 4 box office collection stands at ₹65 crore net in India after three days, with a worldwide gross of ₹92 crore, ₹78 crore of that from India and ₹14 crore from overseas, per Sacnilk. Trade estimates from Pragativadi had pegged the weekend close in the ₹63-65 crore range even before Sunday's final numbers came in, suggesting the film tracked close to expectations once the slow Friday washed out.

The bigger question is whether the film can sustain this pace on weekdays, when comedy franchises typically lean on family and repeat viewership rather than opening-day buzz. If Monday and Tuesday hold anywhere close to Sunday's pace, a ₹100 crore lifetime total in India looks realistic within the first ten days.

The film's closing moments also carry a teaser for Dhamaal 5, signalling plans to keep the series running as an active theatrical franchise, according to Box Office Worldwide. The real test starts now, though, as the film moves past its opening weekend cushion and into the weekday grind where most Bollywood releases either find legs or fade fast.