'Ramayan: Rise of a Legend' is the third fastest Indian film to earn thousands of rupees worldwide. Ranbir Kapoor played the role of Ram, and Yash played the role of Ravana. It was somewhat expected that this film would create a storm among the audience. But in the informed circles, the popularity of Ramayana is going on abroad. In countries where Indian movies earn millions of rupees, Ramayana has crossed the crore mark.
Nitesh Tiwari directed film has crossed the thousand crore mark in eight days. Statistics say that Ranveer has caused quite a stir in South Asia. People of many countries are familiar with Ramayana. The epic Ramayana is included in the curriculum of any country. Even its own form of Ramayana is quite popular in those countries. For example in Thailand there is Ramakien. Thai people flock to watch the movie version of the book written about Lord Rama. Ramayana has done business of 9 crores in just eight days. No Indian movie has done so much business in Thailand in the past.
The picture is similar in Cambodia. In that country, Ramayana, known as Rimkar, is also taught in schools. The movie did a business of one and a half million dollars there. The business of Ramayana in Malaysia is 8 crore rupees. In both the countries, no Indian movie has earned so much money in the past. In Vietnam, Indian films usually do business between 15 to 20 lakhs. But Ramayana has reached three crores in just eight days. There is also a 1300 year old Valmiki temple in the country. Ramayana did a business of 1 crore rupees in Indonesia in just 2 days.
As expected, Ramayana did great business in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Because multiple places of these two countries are mentioned in Valmiki's writings. Statistics say that Ramayana has done a business of 8 crore rupees in Nepal so far. However, the figures for Sri Lanka are not yet available separately. According to the last available figures, the film business in India was 564 crores.