Drishyam 3 box office collection day 4: Mohanlal starrer earns Rs 141 cr globally, trails Empuraan

Drishyam 3 day-wise earning

While Drishyam 3 opened big on Day 1, as you would expect from a franchise event with strong advance bookings, it dropped sharply to Rs 13.57 crore on Day 2. The Mohanlal-starrer held better at Rs 11.01 crore on Saturday before getting back to Rs 13.7 crore on Day 4. The momentum held up, with the film collecting Rs 13.95 crores in Day 4. Thudarum had an unusual pattern where it actually grew from Day 1 to Day 2, driven by walk-in audiences who caught up after strong early word-of-mouth. Lokah started slow and grew steadily, which is what made it the box office king with Rs 303.86 crore worldwide in 2025. Manjummel Boys and Aavesham were slow starters that ran and ran.

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Drishyam 3 worldwide box office

But the India numbers are almost the secondary story. The more interesting figure is what Drishyam 3 has done internationally — its overseas number at Rs 78 crore is nearly 34 percent higher than its India gross of Rs 54.55 crore. The Gulf region alone contributed approximately $1.4 million on Day 1, with the UK adding over $0.44 million and North America around $0.42 million, per Sacnilk’s Day 1 overseas report.

The Malayalam diaspora, particularly in the Gulf, the UK, and North America, is now a force on opening weekends that no other Indian regional industry can match, and no franchise in that world pulls them in quite the way Drishyam does.

There is also something worth noting about how Drishyam 3 opened compared to other films in pure day-by-day terms. It did not follow Thudarum’s unusual pattern of growing from Day 1 to Day 2, driven by walk-in audiences responding to strong early word-of-mouth, nor Lokah’s slow-build trajectory that eventually made it Mollywood’s all-time highest grosser. Drishyam 3 opened big, dipped on Day 2, recovered on Day 3 and sustained the momentum on Day 4. That is more or less the pattern of a franchise event film, front-loaded, driven by fans and the occasion, then dependent on wider audience response to sustain momentum. The next ten days will determine whether it becomes a Rs 150 crore film or something considerably more.