Christopher Nolan’s epic fantasy-action film The Odyssey has launched in India on over 2,500 screens with showtimes running from 6:30 AM to 11:59 PM, leaving barely three hours between the last and first screenings. Shot entirely with cutting-edge IMAX cameras, it commands premium pricing, with Mumbai tickets peaking at ₹3100 and opening day collections projected at ₹20 crore, surpassing Oppenheimer.
Everything about Christopher Nolan is grand, cinematic, and historic—including the show timings and ticket prices. Following a highly buzzed-about Indian premiere last week, the filmmaker's epic fantasy-actioner The Odyssey made its global theatrical debut on Friday. In India, the film has rolled out across a massive footprint of over 2,500 screens, featuring round-the-clock showtimes that stretch from as early as 6:30 AM to as late as 11:59 PM.
At Maison Inox in Jio World Plaza BKC, Mumbai for instance, a packed theatre turned up at 6.30 AM to watch the first show of the film, a sight usually reserved for the likes of Indian superstars like Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan.
For a feature clocking an almost three-hour runtime, this relentless scheduling means the window between the final credits rolling and the very first screening of the next day is a razor-thin gap of less than three hours.
The film was shot entirely using the latest IMAX technology, marking the first-ever feature to be captured completely with IMAX cameras. This milestone has heavily driven its appeal in premium-format screens.
Ticket prices for IMAX screenings have hit an all-time high. At Mumbai's premium PVR Inox Palladium (Lower Parel), tickets are retailing from ₹900 for the early morning slots up to a staggering ₹3,100 for prime timings — all of which have completely sold out.
According to data from industry tracker Sacnilk, the lowest ticket entry point for a metro market is at Chennai's PVR Palazzo, where rates are fixed at ₹508. This anomaly is due to the Tamil Nadu state government's strict cap on theatre pricing, which restricts exhibitors from implementing flexi-pricing or levying premium rates for luxury recliner seating.
Meanwhile, the price band in Delhi-NCR ranges between ₹800 and ₹2,500, closely mirroring the range in Bengaluru and Kolkata.
Driven by these unprecedented average ticket prices (ATPs), The Odyssey is comfortably tracking toward a historic ₹20 crore day-one, poised to shatter Nolan's previous Indian opening-day record of ₹14.45 crore set by Oppenheimer in 2023.