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The Paradise found the receipts. Auditors did not

Nani’s film has a strong reported overseas opening, but the numbers arrive as competing estimates rather than one reconciled account.

By Ctrl Alt DebateThe Outside World
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An editorial cartoon shows a suitcase labelled “OVERSEAS GROSS” rolling through an airport-style final-total gate while an auditor reaches for it beside competing ledgers, calculators and cinema receipts.

Published overseas estimates differ slightly, with no public market-by-market reconciliation.

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The Paradise has opened strongly overseas, with published estimates putting its gross at roughly ₹29.25 crore to ₹31.5 crore across its first four to six days. The receipts, however, come with several different labels and no publicly available audit.

123Telugu reported a $2.3 million opening day, rising to $2.55 million after two days and $2.95 million over the extended four-day weekend. Koimoi later listed ₹31 crore overseas after five days and ₹31.5 crore after six. Sacnilk’s tracker placed the earlier total at ₹29.25 crore. Those figures are broadly compatible after currency conversion and different reporting cut-offs, but no source publishes a market-by-market reconciliation.

The film, directed by Srikanth Odela, stars Nani and was produced by Sudhakar Cherukuri under SLV Cinemas. Prathyangira Cinemas handled the overseas release. Its promotional material claimed a $1.25 million North American premiere gross, while advance-sales publicity put the film above 1,200 overseas locations and $1.5 million in pre-release sales.

The reported opening may have been Nani’s biggest overseas opener, as several trade reports claim. An audited comparative table has not been published. The film has numbers. The final number is still apparently on international travel.

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