How to Train Your Dragon sees huge drop on Monday

The live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon has delivered a promising commencement astatine the Indian container office, crossing an estimated ₹11.73 crore nett successful its archetypal 4 days. Despite a crisp dip successful collections connected Monday, the film’s beardown play show signals robust assemblage involvement successful high-quality household entertainment.The Dean DeBlois-directed remake — a reimagining of the beloved DreamWorks animated franchise — opened with Rs 2.15 crore connected Friday and saw awesome maturation implicit the weekend, collecting Rs 4 crore connected Saturday and Rs 4.5 crore connected Sunday. This took its opening play full to Rs 10.65 crore net.However, Monday witnessed a notable slump, with the movie earning an estimated Rs 1.08 crore — a immense driblet from Sunday. Despite the decline, the film’s four-day full present stands astatine an estimated Rs 11.73 crore.According to the accumulation house, How to Train Your Dragon grossed an estimated Rs 14 crore implicit its opening play successful India, marking the biggest Indian debut for the franchise to date. It besides ranks arsenic the biggest opening play for a household movie successful 2025, and the fifth-highest among MPA (Motion Picture Association) titles released this year. Its show besides places it among the top-performing animation-to-live-action adaptations of the post-pandemic era.

The movie managed to execute this contempt competing with titles astatine the container bureau that see Materialists, a romanticist drama starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, which has earned an estimated Rs 3.37 crore successful India truthful far. Meanwhile, the enactment thriller Ballerina, led by Ana de Armas, has pulled successful astir Rs 7.58 crore.With affirmative word-of-mouth and continued household appeal, How to Train Your Dragon is expected to stay a cardinal subordinate astatine the container bureau successful the days ahead, though weekday trends volition find however beardown its semipermanent tally volition be.