Box Office 2025 has opened well for South Indian movies who have maintained a winning streak in January with many superstars arriving on Makar Sankranti. Nonetheless the important thing attraction was Ram Charan’s Game Changer and Venkatesh Daggubati’s Sankranthiki Vasthunam.
While January 2025 didn’t impress with the box office numbers with some movies that included Tovino Thomas’s Identity and Mammootty’s Dominic And The Ladies’ Purse, surprisingly, South Indian movies did a lot better than Bollywood!
Box Office 2025 – Bollywood VS South!
In January, the box office 2025 report for Bollywood is a bit underwhelming, with only 175 crore coming on the box office. Meanwhile, South Indian movies, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam releases, together earned 499.61 crore on the box office, almost 185% higher than Bollywood’s earnings for the opening month of 2025.
Try the region-wise breakdown of the box office collection of South Indian movies in January 2025.
- Sandalwood: 9.46 crore*
- Kollywood: 89.59 crore*
- Tollywood: 346.76 crore*
- Mollywood: 53.8 crore*
Total: 499.61 crore*
* denotes the film remains to be running within the theaters.
4 Profitable South Indian Movies!
While Bollywood Box Office 2025 struggled for a success in January, the South Indian box office witnessed 3 super hits and 1 successful film. Rekhachithram in Malayalam turned out to be probably the most profitable Indian film of 2025, followed by the Telugu comedy Sankranthiki Vasthunam and the Tamil film Madha Gaja Raja. Aside from these three superhits, Mollywood recently delivered Ponman’s success as well.
Here is the list of the 4 profitable South Indian movies of 2025.
- Rekhachithram: 327.67% (24 days)**
- Madha Gaja Raja: 209.80% (20 days)**
- Sankranthiki Vasthunam: 233.82% (18 days)**
- Kudumbasthan: 36.5% (9 days)
** denotes estimated numbers since there are movies still running within the theaters
Note: Box office numbers are based on estimates and various sources. Numbers haven’t been independently verified by Koimoi.
Try the box office collections and verdicts of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam movies of 2025 here.
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