In just eight days since its March 19, 2026 release, Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar: The Revenge has become one of Bollywood's fastest films to cross the Rs 1000 crore collections mark at the box office.
Jio Studios' official poster proudly declared that the film has collected a staggering Rs 1,088 crore worldwide (Rs 814 Cr in India + Rs 274 Cr overseas), with the film crossing Rs 690 crore net in India.
While these figures have painted Dhurandhar 2 as a perfect box office storm, independent trade figures tell a different story.
Recently, a viral social media post highlighted that Pinkvilla's trade records showcased that the film's overall eight-day figure is at Rs 981 crore, a shocking Rs 107 crore gap from numbers that the Dhurandhar team has presented.
The post highlighted that no other major Hindi film in recent memory that made it to the Rs 1000 crore club showed such aggressively inflated numbers.
For example, Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan showed a mere Rs 4 crore difference between producer and trade figures, while Jawan showed a Rs 14 crore variance, which accounts for nearly 2-3% inflated numbers.
Trade analysts refer to this phenomenon as classic Bollywood "feeding." Producers often rely heavily on corporate bulk bookings where companies buy thousands of tickets at full price to gift employees. While these collections are added to the gross collections, they generate minimal organic footfall.
Pinkvilla's prominent entertainment author and box office analyst Jatinder Singh suggested that Dhurandhar (both parts) has taken this tactic to "skyforce levels" by strategically over-reporting actual numbers to select analysts and box office trackers.
Film exhibitors are reportedly also taking a hit due to the inflated numbers. PVR-Inox's shares plunged from Rs 1019 on March 18 to Rs 934.70 on March 27, marking a heavy 8.5% drop. Despite the producers claiming that audiences are storming the theaters to watch the action thriller exhibitors highlight that the numbers tell otherwise.
In contrast, Pathaan's release had lifted the same stock by 8% following its first week run at the cinemas in January 2023.
These inflated numbers and fabricated hype around the title have raised concerns among Bollywood circles about why the makers are so desperate to showcase Dhurandhar as this unbeatable phenomenon.
Audiences on social media are highlighting that real attendance, weak repeat value, and visibly empty seats at the theaters are inconvenient truths that the makers are trying to cover up with the manufactured "fastest Rs 1000 crore club entry" narrative.