The Odyssey Hits ₹100 Crore Milestone in India, Roars Ahead with a Day‑9 Boost

There’s something oddly satisfying about watching a big‑budget film defy the usual drop‑off after the opening weekend. Nolan’s latest, The Odyssey, managed exactly that – it surged on its ninth day, turning a modest Saturday into a box‑office lift‑off.

According to Sacnilk, the film pulled in ₹11.05 crore net on Saturday, which is a staggering 61.3 % jump from the ₹6.85 crore it earned the day before. Those numbers pushed the Indian net tally past the coveted ₹100 crore mark, landing at ₹108.20 crore. In gross terms the movie now sits around ₹129.15 crore, and that figure was generated from roughly 4,591 shows across the sub‑continent.

Let’s rewind a bit. The Odyssey opened with a solid ₹17.40 crore on Friday, followed by a bumper ₹22 crore on Saturday and a respectable ₹21.90 crore on Sunday. The weekdays were, as expected, quieter – roughly ₹8 crore on Monday, a tad more on Tuesday, and then a slow‑down mid‑week. Still, the film never really fell into the abyss; it held on to about ₹6‑7 crore each weekday.

Then the second Friday arrived and the numbers nudged up to ₹6.85 crore. What’s more interesting is the Saturday bounce to ₹11.05 crore – that’s the biggest second‑weekend lift we’ve seen for a Hollywood‑origin film in India this year. Analysts point to a combination of word‑of‑mouth, rave reviews, and a voracious appetite for premium experiences like IMAX and Dolby Atmos. Ticket sales for those formats have remained stubbornly strong, keeping queues long and screens full.

Of course, the movie isn’t just a Hindi‑dubbed spectacle. It’s being shown in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, with the English version still pulling the bulk of the cash. The cast – starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus, plus heavyweights like Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron and Zendaya – has given fans plenty of reasons to keep coming back.

Beyond Indian shores, the picture is doing its own thing. Variety reports a $51 million haul on Friday alone from almost 4,000 North‑American theatres. Globally, The Odyssey has amassed roughly $257.8 million, with $137.3 million coming from 73 overseas markets. Those figures put it on track to become Nolan’s biggest opening worldwide, nudging past The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight and even Oppenheimer.

For anyone who missed the opening hype, the story is a modern retelling of Homer’s ancient epic. Odysseus, king of Ithaca, battles gods, monsters and his own hubris on a treacherous journey home after the Trojan War, while his wife Penelope and son Telemachus hold down the fort back on the island.

All things considered, The Odyssey’s day‑9 performance feels like a case study in how solid storytelling, star power and premium‑format love can keep a film alive well beyond its debut. Whether it can actually close the gap with Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness remains to be seen, but for now, Nolan’s mythic adventure is certainly riding a high tide.