Ramayana advance booking: Nitesh Tiwari’s adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana, slated to release in cinemas worldwide on November 5, may turn out to be the biggest global opening for its lead actor Ranbir Kapoor. If the current pace of advance booking and the buzz around its world premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, are anything to go by, the film may very well be on its way to amass over Rs 80 crore net at the domestic box office, and over Rs 147 crore worldwide.

Ever since the advance booking of Ramayana started a week ago on the occasion of Dussehra, the film has been consistently picking up pace at the box office. As of 8 am on Wednesday, the movie has sold 2.62 lakh tickets across 6126 screens in India to collect Rs 11.35 crore already. Combined with block booking, the advance booking earnings domestically stand at Rs 14.07 crore.

The majority of the bookings stem from the native Hindi version of Ramayana, at 86% and Rs 12.15 crore.…