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Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash with the film's team on the red carpet at the Ramayana premiereEntertainment

Ramayana has sold ₹34 crore of tickets before Day 1. The first viewers are less united

Days before its 5 November release, Nitesh Tiwari's epic is pre-selling like a festival film, at nearly double Animal's ticket price. The LA premiere crowd loved the scale and argued about the soul.

Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana: Part 1, with Ranbir Kapoor as Rama and Yash as Ravana, had sold ₹34.72 crore of India tickets by 1 November, per Sacnilk, at more than double Animal's average ticket price. Bookings opened on Dussehra. First reactions from the 27 October LA premiere praised the scale but criticised parts of the narration and effects. Paid previews run on 4 November and the worldwide release is 5 November.

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AR Rahman says he wants to do less work, as the Wonderment Tour reaches Mumbai and Delhi

34 years after Roja, Rahman brings the Wonderment Tour to Jio World Garden on 1 November and makes his Delhi debut with it on 21 November. Here's the show, the schedule and what he said about AI.

Thirty-four years after Roja, AR Rahman told The Hollywood Reporter India he wants to do less work and spend more time with family. Yet his Wonderment Tour, which opened in Navi Mumbai in 2025 and toured North America, played a three-hour show at Jio World Garden, Mumbai, on 1 November. Its Delhi debut follows on 21 November, and he is also scoring Ramayana with Hans Zimmer.

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Jailer 2 is now the biggest Tamil film ever, and it got there without North India's big multiplexes

Rajinikanth's sequel crossed ₹700 crore worldwide in 11 days. The Hindi market barely showed up, and that story is about streaming windows, not star power.

Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 crossed ₹710 crore worldwide in 11 days, overtaking 2.0 on Sacnilk's figures to become the biggest Tamil film ever. It did so with little Hindi business, because PVR INOX and Cinepolis skipped the Hindi version outside South India over a four-week streaming window. Ramayana: Part 1 takes premium screens from 5 November, and a mid-November streaming release is reported but unconfirmed.

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Denied, cleared, sold out: Diljit's Delhi opener survived a police 'no', a date change and the rain

The Aura India tour finally began at JLN Stadium on 30 October. How a 1 November show became an October show, why police said no first, and what happened on the night.

Diljit Dosanjh's Aura India tour opened at a full Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi on 30 October. The show moved from 1 November, the anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence, and Delhi Police first withheld permission before approving a security plan. Despite rain and delays, he played over two hours and thanked the police on stage. Indore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Lucknow follow through 5 December.

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Taylor Swift, 36, is now the youngest member of Nashville's songwriting hall of fame

Twenty years after her debut, the town that taught her to write has put her in its most exclusive club. It's her second songwriting hall of fame this year.

At 36, Taylor Swift became the youngest person ever inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on 26 October, introduced by Brad Paisley. She moved to Nashville as a young teenager, and her debut album turned 20 that same week. It is her second songwriting hall of fame in 2026, after New York's Songwriters Hall of Fame. In her speech, she credited repetition for teaching her the craft.

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    The Weeknd ends the biggest male solo tour ever in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur

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    The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn tour, which began in 2022, has grossed more than $1 billion, making it the biggest tour ever by a male solo artist. It ends in Asia with four nights at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium in late October and a finale in Kuala Lumpur on 4 and 5 November. With no India date announced, many Indian fans are flying in.

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    Drishyam 3: ₹176.5 crore in three days, and Ajay Devgn's biggest Monday ever

    The Hindi finale of the franchise is 2026's second-biggest Hindi opening weekend. And yes, there were two Drishyam 3s this year.

    Ajay Devgn's Drishyam 3: The Conclusion, billed as the final chapter of the Hindi series, opened on 2 October and grew through its weekend to ₹176.5 crore India net, 2026's second-biggest Hindi opening weekend. A ₹21 crore Monday, his biggest first Monday, took it to ₹197.5 crore in four days. After a thin first half for Bollywood, exhibitors now have a strong run into the festive season.

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    Diljit Dosanjh's Aura India tour: seven cities, one 1.3-lakh-seat stadium, tickets from ₹999

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    Tomorrowland Thailand sold 150,000 tickets in under an hour, before anyone knew who was playing

    Asia's first full Tomorrowland lands in Pattaya on 11–13 December with Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia. 85% of buyers are flying in.

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  1. 1Ramayana has sold ₹34 crore of tickets before Day 1. The first viewers are less united
  2. 2AR Rahman says he wants to do less work, as the Wonderment Tour reaches Mumbai and Delhi
  3. 3Jailer 2 is now the biggest Tamil film ever, and it got there without North India's big multiplexes
  4. 4Drishyam 3: ₹176.5 crore in three days, and Ajay Devgn's biggest Monday ever
  5. 5Denied, cleared, sold out: Diljit's Delhi opener survived a police 'no', a date change and the rain