How to Train Your Dragon makes Rs 4.88 crore debut

The live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon has roared into cinemas with a beardown debut, collecting an awesome Rs 4.88 crore connected Day 1 astatine the Indian container office. Released connected June 13, 2025, successful IMAX 3D, the movie has struck a chord with audiences crossed languages.The English mentation unsocial brought successful astir Rs 2.96 crore, portion the Hindi-dubbed variation followed with Rs 1.1 crore, according to aboriginal estimates connected Sacnilk.com. The Tamil and Telugu versions besides performed well, earning Rs 36 lakh and Rs 46 lakh respectively.Globally, the movie is outperforming projections, opening with a stellar $82.5 cardinal crossed 4,356 theatres successful North America—marking the biggest opening play successful the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.

Friday unsocial contributed $35.5 million, including $11.1 cardinal from previews. With Father’s Day approaching, play numbers are expected to ascent further, fuelled by the film’s halfway father-son narrative.This motorboat places the movie arsenic the 4th highest opening play of the twelvemonth successful the US, down Minecraft, Lilo & Stitch, and Captain America: Brave New World.Critics and audiences alike are responding positively to the film, which presently boasts a 99% Audience Score connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Directed by Dean DeBlois—returning to helm the franchise helium helped shape—the remake retains the bosom of the archetypal animated classical portion introducing a caller ocular extent done live-action storytelling.Mason Thames stars arsenic Hiccup, the young Viking inventor whose brushwood with the elusive Night Fury, Toothless, sets disconnected a travel of compassion and courage. BAFTA nominee Nico Parker brings a fiery beingness arsenic Astrid, portion Gerard Butler reprises his relation arsenic Stoick the Vast, Hiccup’s formidable begetter and main of Berk.How to Train Your Dragon is simply a coming-of-age communicative that transcends generations. Hiccup’s determination to spare a dragon’s beingness leads to an improbable friendship—one that challenges centuries of fearfulness and conflict, and yet redefines the enslaved betwixt humans and dragons.With beardown container bureau numbers and glowing assemblage reception, the movie is poised to go 1 of the summer’s breakout hits, some successful India and internationally.