India Box Office Report January 2026: The beginning of the year 2026 has been a bang for the Indian box office. The films released in the month of January have been successful in attracting the audience. Not only Hindi but Tamil, Telugu and Marathi films have made great collections. The box office report for January 2026 has arrived. Let us tell you which film is dominating this month? And how much money have the films of which language earned?

January 2026 Box Office Report

Ormax Media Report has released the report for January 2026. According to the report, a total earning of Rs 1327 crore has been made at the Indian box office in January 2026. This collection is 30% more than last year. Last year in 2025, the total box office earning was Rs 1020 crore.

This report is going to make cine lovers happy. Also, there is a positive trend for film makers and the industry.

Top 10 highest grossing films in January 2026

South and Hindi films, i.e. these two languages, have been dominating the box office. There are four South films in the top 10, while three Hindi films are included.

• ‘Border 2’ has achieved the top position with an impressive earning of ₹78 crore.
• Telugu’s ‘Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu’ is at second place with earnings of Rs 257 crore.
• At number three is Prabhas’s ‘The Raja Saab’ which has collected a total of Rs 173 crore.
• Telugu comedy film Anaganaga Oka Raju is at number four. This film has collected Rs 63 crores.
• At number five is Tamil action film Parashakti which has earned Rs 62 crores.
• On the sixth is the crime thriller film Mardaani 3 which has earned Rs 61 crore.
• At number seven is the Bollywood film Ikkis which has earned Rs 38 crores.
• Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimayil at number eight (36 crores), ‘Nari Nari Naduma Murari’ at number nine (31 crores) and,
• Krantijyoti Vidyalaya Marathi medium film is at tenth place with the earning of Rs 28 crores.

If seen in terms of language, Hindi and Telugu films have equal dominance at the box office. According to Ormax report, the share of Hindi is 39%, Telugu is 39%, Tamil is 11%, Malayalam is 4% and other languages ​​are 7%.

Hindi Vs South- Who became number 1

More South films have been released in January 2026 and the collection has also been higher for South films than for Hindi films.

Three Bollywood films were released in the month of January. Whose total collection was 477 crores.

1. Border 2- 378 crores
2. Mardaani 3- 61 crores
3. twenty one- 38 crores

At the same time, a total of 6 South films were released in theaters whose collection was Rs. 622 crores.

1. Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu- 257 crores
2. The Rajasaab-173 crores
3. Anaganaga Oka Raju – 63 crores
4. Parashakti – 62 crores
5. Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimayil – 36 crores
6. Nari Nari Naduma Murari- 31 crores

Total collection- 622 crores

So if we compare the collections, South cinema was ahead of Hindi in terms of earnings in January.

Most awaited movies of 2026

This year may prove to be bigger than ever for Indian cinema. January is just off to a strong start as there are many most-awaited films in the release line-up.

‘Dhurandhar 2’ is going to be released in March, while there is tremendous excitement about ‘Toxic’ also. Apart from this, many much awaited films like Shahrukh Khan’s ‘King’, Ranbir Kapoor’s ‘Ramayana Part 1’, actor Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayakan’, Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s ‘Spirit’, Salman Khan’s ‘Battle of Galwan’, Sunny Deol’s ‘Gabru’, Alia Bhatt’s action film ‘Alpha’, ‘Peddi’, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love and War’, Akshay Kumar’s ‘Bhoot Bangla’ are included. Are.

It is clear from this list that there is going to be record earnings at the box office in 2026.

The report of first-day forecast versus actual earnings of films released in January has arrived. This report has been released by Ormax Media in which it has been told that how much actual collection on the first day compared to the first day prediction of the films released in January 2026. You will also be shocked after seeing this report. Actually, there are two films in this list which have gone far ahead of ‘Border 2’. No one would have thought that these films could surpass ‘Border 2’ in this matter.

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Agastya Nanda starrer film ‘Ikkis’ was released in theaters on 1 January 2026. Trade experts have given a prediction regarding the earnings of this film that the film can get an opening of up to Rs 3.5 crores. But ‘Ikkis’ earned Rs 5.8 crore on the first day. These are domestic box office figures.

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Rani Mukerji starrer film ‘Mardaani 3’ was also released on January 30. Regarding this film, trade experts had predicted that this film will do a business of Rs 3.4 crore. But this film did a business of Rs 3.8 crore.

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Sunny Deol and Varun Dhawan’s ‘Border 2’ was released in theaters on 23 January. This film collected less than predicted on the first day. Trade experts claimed that the film could make a net collection of Rs 32 crore to Rs 35 crore. But ‘Border 2’ made a net collection of Rs 30 crore on the first day in India.

According to this report of Ormax Media, as per the prediction made about ‘Border 2’, the film has reduced its collection. Whereas ‘Mardaani 3’ and ‘Ikkis’ have done better business by beating the predictions. In this case, ‘Border 2’ has been overtaken by both ‘Ikkis’ and ‘Mardaani 3’. However, if we look at the collection of ‘Border 2’ so far, it is much more than these films.