Mahesh Babu’s Athadu is all set to arrive yet again within the theaters on February 28, and the initial response on BookMyShow suggests the superstar is facing a little bit of a struggle to beat his own records. The last time the film arrived within the theaters in August 2025, it was a victory for Mahesh Babu!
Trivikram Srinivas’s directorial continues to be keeping a gradual pace on the ticket window with its pre-sales. In two days, it has managed to register a ticket pre-sales of 10.32K. The advance sales on BMS began with 5.22K ticket sales on Monday, followed by 5.16K ticket sales on Tuesday.
Athadu Re-Release Box Office VS Mahesh Babu
To place things into perspective, the last time Athadu hit the screens for a re-release, it enjoyed a lifetime ticket sale of 151K and pre-sales of 37.61K. Currently, Mahesh Babu‘s film has sold only 6.8% of the overall tickets from its previous outing. If it intends to eye an enormous goal, the momentum must shift drastically in the following two days.
the highest 10 ticket pre-sales for Telugu re-releases on BMS, Mahesh Babu’s film stands at number 10.
- Khaleja: 193K
- Gabbar Singh: 175K
- Baahubali: The Epic: 173.46K
- Murari: 166K
- Businessman: 145K
- Arya 2: 103K
- Salaar: 102K
- SVSC: 78K
- Indra: 64K
- Athadu (August 2025 re-release): 37.61K
Currently, before its arrival on February 28, 2026, Athadu needs a ticket pre-sale of virtually 27.6K to surpass the pre-sale of the last re-release of the film.
Also starring Trisha Krishnan and Sonu Sood, the film is rated 8.2 on IMDb. The official synopsis of the film says, “A hitman, Nandu, is hired to stage the assassination of a politician. Nonetheless, when the politician is definitely killed, and Nandu is framed for the murder, he assumes a dead man’s identity to evade the law.”
Take a look at the box office collections and verdicts of Telugu movies of 2026.
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