Lokah Chapter 1 box office collection day 9: Kalyani Priyadarshan’s superhero film earns Rs 123.5 crore worldwide

At the recent success event held in Hyderabad, actor-producer Dulquer Salmaan expressed his gratitude to the Telugu audience for embracing the film wholeheartedly. “I have done 40-plus movies, and I have not experienced this as a hero in any of my films. So thank you. Thank you, wonderful audiences. And thank you, Telugu audiences, for accepting Lokah as your own film, the way you’ve accepted me. I’ve always felt like I belong here, and I feel like this film also belongs here,” he said.

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Directed by Dominic Arun, Lokah: Chapter 1 has now become the third-biggest Malayalam hit of 2025, trailing behind only Mohanlal’s L2: Empuraan and Thudarum and has earned Rs 123.5 crore worldwide. The film has outperformed Mohanlal’s recently released Hridayapoorvam, which released on the same day and has only managed Rs 22.85 crore in nine days in India. Lokah, which also stars Naslen, has already surpassed the nine-day collection of his previous hit Alappuzha Gymkhana, which had earned Rs 26.3 crore in the same time frame.

Importantly, Lokah marks a significant moment in Malayalam cinema as it stands as the industry’s first female-led superhero film and the inaugural installment in the planned Wayfarer Cinematic Universe. However, the film also found itself in controversy after a line referring to Bengaluru as the “capital of drugs and crime” was deemed problematic by several Kannada filmmakers. In response, Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films, along with Raj B Shetty’s Lighter Buddha Films, issued an apology and assured the public that the line would be edited out of the film.