Oh man, you won't believe the story of this movie! It’s basically the ultimate "underdog" tale of 2025. While everyone was talking about the big Bollywood blockbusters, this tiny Gujarati film called "Laalo: Krishna Sada Sahaayate" (sometimes just called Laalo) basically broke the entire box office calculator.
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| How 'Laalo' Achieved a Record-Breaking 23,900% Profit Margin |
Here is the lowdown on how it managed to out-muscle Ranveer Singh's massive movie, Dhurandhar.
The Insane Numbers
First off, the budget. The film was made for just Rs 50 lakh (which is like, peanuts in the movie world). For comparison, Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar—which is a huge spy thriller directed by Aditya Dhar—had a budget of around Rs 250 crore.
But look at the returns:
Laalo's Earnings: It has grossed over Rs 120.58 crore worldwide.
The Profit: Because the cost was so low, the profit percentage is a mind-blowing 23,900%.
The Comparison: Dhurandhar actually did amazing (it made over Rs 1,200 crore!), but in terms of "Return on Investment" (ROI), Laalo is way ahead. To beat Laalo's profit percentage, Dhurandhar would have had to earn something like Rs 30,000 crore—which is more than Avatar or Endgame!
A "Disastrous" Start
The funniest part is that when it first came out on October 10, 2025, nobody cared.
Week 1: It only made about Rs 33 lakh.
Week 2: It actually dropped to Rs 27 lakh. Everyone thought it was going to flop and disappear from theaters in a week or two. But then "word of mouth" kicked in. People started telling their friends, "Hey, you have to see this rickshaw driver movie," and things went crazy.
By the fourth week, it was suddenly making Rs 1 crore in a single day. It eventually became the first Gujarati film ever to cross the Rs 100 crore mark.
What’s the Story About?
It's a devotional drama but with a twist. It’s about a rickshaw driver named Laalo (played by Karan Joshi) who gets trapped in a farmhouse during a robbery gone wrong. While he's stuck there, he starts having these visions of Lord Krishna (played by Shruhad Goswami). It’s basically a journey of him facing his past "demons" and finding spiritual healing. People are saying it feels a bit like the movie Trapped mixed with Oh My God.
Why it Beat Ranveer Singh
Okay, technically Dhurandhar made more total cash at the bank, but Laalo is being called the "winner" because it’s much harder to turn 50 lakhs into 120 crores than it is to turn 250 crores into 1,200 crores. It’s a huge win for regional cinema.
In fact, the movie just got a Hindi dubbed release on January 9, 2026, so it's now actually competing directly with Dhurandhar and Prabhas's The Raja Saab in theaters right now!
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