Housefull 5 beats Sikandar: Become 2025’s 4th biggest Hindi grosser

Akshay Kumar’s drama franchise continues to present container bureau magic. Housefull 5, the 5th installment successful the fashionable drama series, has made a smashing introduction astatine the container office, surpassing Salman Khan’s Sikandar to look arsenic the 4th highest-grossing Hindi movie of 2025 truthful far.The movie opened connected a beardown note, collecting Rs 24 crore connected its archetypal Friday. It witnessed fantabulous maturation connected Saturday with Rs 31 crore and a further emergence connected Sunday, bringing successful Rs 32.5 crore. Even with the expected dip during weekdays, Housefull 5 posted Rs 13 crore connected Monday and Rs 10.75 crore connected Tuesday (as per aboriginal estimates by Sacnilk). This brings its 5-day all-language India nett postulation to an awesome Rs 111.25 crore.The film’s blend of slapstick humour, bully euphony and ensemble prima cast, worked successful its favour, ensuring packed houses crossed large centres. This feat is peculiarly noteworthy considering the stiff contention successful 2025’s packed merchandise calendar.On the different hand, Salman Khan’s Sikandar, an enactment entertainer that opened with Rs 26 crore connected its archetypal Sunday, initially showed committedness by climbing to Rs 29 crore connected Monday.

However, it saw crisp drops from Tuesday onwards. The film’s extended first-week postulation stood astatine Rs 90.25 crore, and it struggled to prolong thereafter. In its 2nd week, Sikandar could lone muster Rs 17.55 crore, followed by a mediocre 3rd week haul of Rs 2.1 crore.

After 22 days, Sikandar’s full postulation rests astatine Rs 110.1 crore — conscionable abbreviated of what Housefull 5 achieved wrong 5 days.With this, Housefull 5 has edged past Sikandar to assertion the 4th spot among 2025’s apical Hindi grossers, trailing down the year’s bigger blockbusters.

The occurrence besides marks a invited instrumentality to signifier for Akshay Kumar, who earlier this twelvemonth has delivered hits similar Sky Force and Kesari 2 aft a slate of unsuccessful films.Trade is present keenly observing if Housefull 5 tin support its momentum successful the coming week and perchance determination further up the list. Housefull 5 has an ensemble formed of Ritiesh Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan, Abhishek A Bachchan, Sonam Bajwa, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nargis Fakhri, Dino Morea, Chitrangada Singh and Shreyas Talpade and is directed by Tarun Masukhani.