Saiyaara worldwide box office: Ahaan Panday-Aneet Padda starrer beats L2: Empuraan & Sitaare Zameen Par to become 2nd highest Indian grosser of 2025

Despite the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Mahavatar Narsimha, Ahaan Panday & Aneet Padda’s starrer Saiyaara continues to dominate at the global box office.

While romantic drama is set to enter the Rs 250 crore club today in India, it has crossed the Rs 300 crore globally and emerged as the 2nd highest Hindi grosser of the year after Vicky Kaushal’s Chhaava , beating Mohanlal-Prithviraj Sukumaran’s L2: Empuraan , Aamir Khan starrer Sitaare Zameen Par & Venkatesh’s Sankranthiki Vasthunam.

Highest Indian worldwide grossers of 2025

Chhaava: Rs 807.88 crore
Saiyaara: Rs 333.41 crore
L2: Empuraan: Rs 268.08 crore
Sitaare Zameen Par: Rs 261.93 crore
Sankranthiki Vasthunam - Rs 256.54 crore

With the arrival of Ajay Devgn-Mrunal Thakur starrer Son of Sardaar 2 & Siddhant Chaturvedi-Triptii Dimri’s Dhadak 2 on the coming Friday, it will be interesting to see how Saiyaara performs at the box office.

Despite not going all out with the promotions,  Saiyaara  garnered unprecedented excitement among the cinegoers. Before the release of the movie, director Mohit Suri spoke about it and told Firstpost, “I’ve been inside the studio for the last one month. I have no idea. And unlike the past when people travel from one studio to another, this is everything inhouse at YRF. So I haven’t really gone out and met the world outside. Normally, when you are working on other films, you go out for the day; for sound, edit, and VFX. It was different different places.

And just hearing it now, it does feel very redeeming and validating because when I started off this film, I was quite discouraged by a lot of senior people saying that nobody would be interested in a young love story. Because at that time, larger-than-life films were being made and I just thought that my voice would be lost there when everyone was shouting. So I just went and tried to make a film which is very different from what others were doing. And to me, the fact that people are appreciating that the difference that it’s standing out means a lot.”