Peddi Worldwide Box Office Collection Day 8: Ram Charan Film Falls Flat After Janhvi Row, Struggling to Cross ₹300 Crore

The highly anticipated pan-India sports drama Peddi, starring global star Ram Charan and Janhvi Kapoor, is experiencing a sharp decline at the global ticket window following its eighth day of theatrical release. Despite registering a massive opening day performance that initially set high benchmarks for South Indian cinema this year, the film has rapidly lost its momentum during the weekdays. Industry trade trackers report that the domestic daily earnings have continued to dip, with the movie collecting approximately ₹6.30 crore net across India on its eighth day, which marks a notable decline from its first-week standard. This downward trajectory has put severe brakes on the film’s pace, making its journey toward the coveted global milestone highly challenging as it currently sits at an approximate global gross of ₹279 crore, visibly struggling to cross the ₹300 crore mark worldwide.

A major catalyst for this unexpected box office slowdown is the heavy online controversy surrounding the presentation of the lead actress, Janhvi Kapoor. Audiences and critics heavily slammed the narrative choices, pointing out instances of hypersexualization and objectification of her character, which led to intense discussions and social media backlash against the project. In response to the growing public outcry, director Buchi Babu Sana publicly addressed the issue, offering an apology and quickly ordering corrective measures to trim the controversial sequences directly from the theatrical cuts. While the production unit stepped in immediately to rectifying the film by cutting the misleading shots to respect the viewers’ sentiments, the initial negative word of mouth had already started casting a long shadow over the movie’s ticket sales, significantly drying up family audiences.

Looking closely at the market demographics, the film has heavily relied on its core Telugu audience while failing to make a significant impact across other regional language dubs. The home territories of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana remain the primary drivers, maintaining a steady overall occupancy of around 20 percent on Thursday and contributing the majority of the day’s collection. On the flip side, the heavily promoted Hindi version, alongside the Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam dubs, has flatlined significantly, drawing minimal occupancy across major north Indian markets like Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. Built on a massive estimated budget of around ₹350 crore, Peddi now enters a critical second weekend where it desperately needs a miraculous turnaround in occupancy to recover its high production cost and successfully push past its next major milestones.

You can get an in-depth analytical breakdown of the film’s financial journey and the public reaction in this Peddi Box Office Collection Analysis, which covers how the early momentum shifted following the controversy.