Key Takeaways
- Sidharth Malhotra's The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest has crossed Rs 50 crore worldwide within just 4 days of release, with a 4-day domestic net of roughly Rs 38.85 crore (per Sacnilk figures reported by The Week).
- That domestic haul beats Alia Bhatt's Alpha, which managed Rs 37.85 crore in its first four days at home — though Alpha still collected more worldwide in the same window.
- Day-wise domestic net: ~Rs 8cr (Day 1), ~Rs 11.25cr (Day 2), ~Rs 14.35cr (Day 3), ~Rs 4.7cr (Day 4 Monday); the opening weekend alone did Rs 33.25cr net, with Sunday running ~24.4% ahead of Saturday.
- The Vvaan has already overtaken the lifetime domestic totals of Sidharth's Jabariya Jodi, Aiyaary and A Gentleman (Rs 38.33cr), and delivered his third-biggest opening weekend ever — behind only Brothers and Ek Villain.
Four days. Fifty crore. One stunned trade.
Sidharth Malhotra's The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest — co-starring Tamannaah Bhatia and directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra — has stormed past Rs 50 crore worldwide in just four days of release.
But the domestic number is where the head-to-head happened. In its first four days in India, The Vvaan pulled in approximately Rs 38.85 crore net, according to Sacnilk figures reported by The Week on September 29. And sitting right next to it on the trade charts is Alia Bhatt's Alpha — which did Rs 37.85 crore in its own first four days domestically. Sidharth beat Alia — by a crore.
Fairness demands the full picture, though. Alpha collected more worldwide in its first four days than The Vvaan has. So the scorecard reads: Sidharth wins India, Alia wins the world.
The day-by-day breakdown
The Vvaan opened at around Rs 8 crore net on Day 1. Then came the jump: ~Rs 11.25 crore on Day 2, and a roaring ~Rs 14.35 crore on Day 3, with Sunday running roughly 24.4% ahead of Saturday. The opening weekend closed at Rs 33.25 crore net, and by the end of Sunday the worldwide tally stood at Rs 43.15 crore, including Rs 3.5 crore from overseas.
Monday brought in about Rs 4.7 crore. That's a normal weekday fall, not a collapse, and it pushed the four-day domestic net to that ~Rs 38.85 crore mark and the worldwide total past the Rs 50 crore milestone.
Sidharth's personal bests are falling
The Vvaan has already surpassed the entire lifetime domestic collections of three of Sidharth Malhotra's earlier films — Jabariya Jodi, Aiyaary, and A Gentleman, which topped out at Rs 38.33 crore. Four days, and it's beaten what those films managed in their full runs.
It also marks his third-highest opening weekend ever, behind only Brothers and Ek Villain — the two films that defined his commercial peak. For an actor who has spent the last few years searching for a second wind, this is oxygen.
For Sidharth's film to out-earn Alia Bhatt's domestically over the same four-day window — even by a whisker — is the kind of headline that reshapes trade conversations for months. It echoes the kind of box-office history we saw rewritten earlier this year — except this time, the upset is the story.
What happens from here
Mixed reviews plus strong box office usually means one of two things: critic-proof mass entertainment that will run for weeks, or an opening that was the peak. That Rs 4.7 crore Monday is decent, not dazzling — the next few days will decide whether The Vvaan is a Rs 100-crore film or a very good Rs 70-crore one.
Sidharth Malhotra just did something nobody had him doing this week: he beat Alia Bhatt at her own game, on her own turf, in four days flat. The Rs 50 crore worldwide milestone is the headline. The Alpha upset is the story.
Sources: The Week, Sacnilk.