Laalo - Krishna Sada Sahaayate, directed by Ankit Sakhiya and released on 10 October 2025, is the defining Gujarati film of 2025 and the first in the language reported past Rs 100 crore worldwide. Chaniya Toli, Umbarro, Vash Level 2, Bachu Ni Benpani and All the Best Pandya were the other reported top grossers of the year. Ormax Media put Gujarati cinema at a reported Rs 242 crore for 2025, up 189 percent on the previous year. Gujarati box office has no certified tracker, so every figure on this page is industry-reported rather than audited.
2025 is the year the Gujarati release calendar stopped being a hobby schedule. Roughly sixty films went out across the twelve months, which is a lot of noise, and most of them will not be remembered. What makes the year worth writing down is that the eight best-performing releases spanned a devotional drama, a heist comedy, a women's travel film, a horror sequel, a courtroom drama, a family comedy set in Bangkok, a dementia thriller and a story about an eighty year old woman handed four bad choices by a government scheme. Genre finally stopped being a Bollywood luxury.
The other thing that happened is a number. Ormax Media reported the whole Gujarati industry at Rs 242 crore for 2025, up 189 percent on a reported Rs 89 crore the year before, and reported that Gujarati films crossed Rs 100 crore collectively for the first time in the January to October window alone. One film supplied most of that jump. Below it sits a slate that mattered on its own terms, and the list that follows ranks by what the films did in 2025, not just by what they took.
The list at a glance
| Rank | Film | Released | Director | Reported gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laalo - Krishna Sada Sahaayate | 10 October 2025 | Ankit Sakhiya | Around Rs 120 crore worldwide |
| 2 | Chaniya Toli | 21 October 2025 | Jay Bodas and Parth Trivedi | Rs 22.8 to 23 crore |
| 3 | Umbarro | 24 January 2025 | Abhishek Shah | Rs 13.3 to 17 crore |
| 4 | Vash Level 2 | 27 August 2025 | Krishnadev Yagnik | Rs 16 crore |
| 5 | Bachu Ni Benpani | 27 August 2025 | Vipul Mehta | Rs 15 crore |
| 6 | All the Best Pandya | 14 March 2025 | Rahul Bhole and Vinit Kanojia | Rs 14 crore |
| 7 | Jai Mata Ji - Let's Rock | 9 May 2025 | Manish Saini | Rs 8 crore |
| 8 | Bhram | 23 May 2025 | Pallav Parikh | Rs 6 crore |
| 9 | Maharani | 1 August 2025 | Viral Shah | No figure published |
| 10 | Mithada Maheman | 18 April 2025 | Chinmay Parmar | No figure published |
| 11 | Shubhchintak | 30 May 2025 | Nisarg Vaidya | No figure published |
| 12 | Deda | 4 July 2025 | Hema Shukla | No figure published |
| 13 | Goti Lo | 27 June 2025 | Deepak Antani | No figure published |
| 14 | Fari Ek Vaar | 12 September 2025 | Akhil Kotak | No figure published |
| 15 | Vande Bharat Via USA | 25 December 2025 | Jaymin Patel | No figure published |
How this list was built
Every film here was released theatrically in Gujarati during calendar 2025 and every credit has been checked against the English Wikipedia film article and its cited trade sources, with the Wikipedia list of Gujarati films of 2025 used as the release-slate spine. Ranking blends reported gross with critical reception and what the film changed about the year, which is why a Rs 6 crore thriller sits above films that no outlet published a figure for at all. Reported grosses come from the Ormax Media sourced box office table for 2025, from film infoboxes and their underlying citations, and from Moneycontrol, Pinkvilla, Koimoi, Bollywood Hungama, Times of India, Sacnilk and Divya Bhaskar. Where sources diverge the entry carries a range and names both ends: Umbarro is reported anywhere from Rs 13.3 crore to Rs 17 crore, and Bachu Ni Benpani sits at a reported Rs 15 crore in the Ormax sourced table while Tenvow logged roughly Rs 7.10 crore. Gujarati cinema has no certified box office tracker of the kind Bollywood has, so no figure on this page is audited and none should be read as final. Seven of the year's films carry no published lifetime gross at all and are ranked purely on reception and credits, with the gross column left honest. One deliberate exclusion: Faati Ne?, the Faisal Hashmi comedy horror shot in Melbourne, is reported at Rs 11.36 crore on Sacnilk off a reported Rs 1.5 crore budget with a 164 day run, which would have earned it a place. It is dropped because no free-licensed photograph exists of anyone connected to it and no official film Instagram account could be found and verified, and this site does not publish studio images or unverified handles. Sanghavi and Sons, Jalebi Rocks, Victor 303 and Ilu Ilu were the closest films to make the cut and did not.
The film that rewrote the arithmetic
One release did more for the Gujarati industry's balance sheet in 2025 than the previous ten years put together.
1Laalo - Krishna Sada Sahaayate
A devotional drama about a rickshaw driver trapped in a farmhouse, confronting his past through visions of Krishna, shot in and around Junagadh at Bhavnath, Girnar, Damodar Kund and Narsinh Mehta no Choro. Ankit Sakhiya directed and co-wrote it with Krushansh Vaja and Vicky Poornima, and Reeva Rachh, Shruhad Goswami, Karan Joshi and Mishty Kadecha carry it without a single recognisable star name on the poster. Smmit Jay composed all seven tracks, from Krishna Beuraa on Mann Mohan to Kirtidan Gadhvi on Manorath Jeev, and the soundtrack did a large share of the film's early word of mouth work. Naquiyah Maimoon of PNN rated it 4 out of 5 and Sameer Ahire of Movie Talkies 3.5 out of 5, both landing on the same point: the theme was fresh and the direction held it.
What Laalo actually did to the industry in 2025 is more interesting than its total. Multiplex chains including PVR Inox, Cinepolis and Star Studio18 reportedly granted it a Virtual Print Fee waiver, an arrangement Bollywood Hungama described as uncommon for a Gujarati regional release and normally reserved for major Hindi or international titles. It became the first Gujarati film to release in Poland, was dubbed into Hindi and went out nationwide on 9 January 2026, and in May 2026 became the first Gujarati film screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Its reported worldwide gross of around Rs 120 crore made it the first Gujarati film past Rs 100 crore, and Ormax Media's reported Rs 242 crore industry figure for 2025, up 189 percent on a reported Rs 89 crore in 2024, is mostly this one film. A picture with no stars, made on a reported Rs 50 lakh, forced the multiplex chains to change their terms. That is the year's headline.
Instagram: @laalothefilm.official (verified 2026-07-29).
The commercial spine of the year
Five films that carried real money and real screens, in five different genres. That spread is what separates 2025 from every year before it.
2Chaniya Toli
A heist comedy dropped straight into Navratri, in which a man looking for a purpose finds a village in financial trouble and talks it into robbing the people responsible. Jay Bodas and Parth Trivedi directed and wrote it with Pratiksinh Chavda, Anand Pandit and Vaishal Shah produced under Anand Pandit Motion Pictures and Jannock Films, and Yash Soni leads with Ragi Jani, Netri Trivedi, Heena Varde, Chetan Daiya and Maulik Nayak. Kedar Bhargav scored it. The first single, Popat, went out on 16 September 2025 with Janki Bodiwala in a special appearance, and it did the heavy lifting on the pre-release campaign.
Reported figures put it between Rs 22.80 crore in the film's own infobox citation and Rs 23 crore in the Ormax sourced table for the year, against a reported Rs 5 crore budget. In any other year that is the number one film and nobody argues. Bollywood Hungama credited Chaniya Toli and Laalo together for pushing Gujarati cinema past Rs 200 crore in a single calendar year for the first time. The quieter achievement is structural: this is the fourth Gujarati project Anand Pandit and Vaishal Shah have financed together, and they used the biggest festival window in Gujarat to release a genre film rather than a family drama. Producers now trust the audience with a plot.
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
3Umbarro
Seven women from rural Gujarat get on a plane to London for the first time and spend the film colliding with language, class and the roles they left at home. Abhishek Shah, who made Hellaro, directed and co-wrote it with Hemant Dhome and Keyu Shah as a remake of the 2021 Marathi film Jhimma, shot primarily in London across a twenty one day schedule. The ensemble runs Vandana Pathak, Kaajal Oza Vaidya, Suchita Trivedi, Deeksha Joshi, Tarjanee Bhadla, Tejal Panchasara, Vineeta Joshee and Aarjav Trivedi, with a Mehul Surti score that includes Falguni Pathak singing London Ke Limbdi. Kanksha Vasavada of the Times of India gave it 4 out of 5 and Mumbai Samachar matched that rating.
Reported figures split hard. Koimoi tracked it to a reported Rs 13.3 crore, the Ormax sourced Wikipedia table carries a reported Rs 17 crore, and Box Office Mojo logged a reported 86,710 dollars from the United Kingdom alone. Either end is a clear profit on a reported Rs 4 crore budget. Its real 2025 significance came two months after release, when a Surat cinema reportedly replaced two night shows of the Salman Khan release Sikandar with Umbarro and All the Best Pandya on demand. A trade analyst confirmed the swap to Bollywood Hungama. Gujarati films taking screens off a Hindi tentpole inside Gujarat is a genuinely new sentence.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
4Vash Level 2
Set twelve years after the original, the sequel puts Atharva back into a fight he thought was finished when ten schoolgirls jump from a terrace in unison and a second black magician turns out to be running mass hypnosis. Krishnadev Yagnik wrote and directed again, Kalpesh Soni and Krunal Soni produced under KS Entertainment Studios, and Janki Bodiwala returns alongside Hitu Kanodia, Monal Gajjar and Hiten Kumar. Panorama Studios distributed it on 27 August 2025 together with a Hindi dub titled Vash Vivash Level 2, and it reached Netflix in both languages on 22 October 2025. It runs 103 minutes, which in a year of 140 minute family dramas is its own statement.
The reviews are the part worth reading. India Today gave it 3 out of 5 and called it raw, chaotic and unsettling while flagging a rushed climax. Rahul Desai in The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the filmmaking is slick without being distracting and specifically not the Bollywood kind of slickness that overproduces every scene. Mayur Sanap of Rediff went 2.5 out of 5, Scroll.in called the first hour effective and the rest diminishing returns. Reported gross is Rs 16 crore. That a Gujarati horror sequel got graded by the Hollywood Reporter, Scroll and India Today at all is the 2025 shift: national critics now show up for these films instead of ignoring them.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
5Bachu Ni Benpani
Bachu Bapodra is terrified of illness and death, so he hoards money, takes every freebie going and makes his family miserable doing it. Vipul Mehta wrote and directed the comedy drama for Rashmin Majithia at Coconut Motion Pictures, running 129 minutes across Ahmedabad and Bangkok, with Siddharth Randeria as Bachu, Ratna Pathak Shah as Suman Gauri Nagar, Devarshi Shah as the younger son, Yukti Randeria, Prince Limbadiya, Jahnvi Chauhan and Gopi Desai. Shilpa Bhanushali of Mid-Day Gujarati rated it 3.5 out of 5, praising the performances, the cinematography and the direction.
The reported gross needs its caveat stated out loud. The Ormax sourced table for 2025 carries it at a reported Rs 15 crore while Tenvow's tracking logged roughly Rs 7.10 crore, and nobody reconciles the two, so read it as a range with a wide mouth. What is not in dispute is the release date. It opened on the exact same day as Vash Level 2, a horror sequel with a Hindi dub and a national distributor, and both films finished inside the year's reported top five. Five years ago two Gujarati films opening head to head would have split one audience and killed each other. In 2025 the market was deep enough to hold both.
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
6All the Best Pandya
A courtroom drama about a son who has never been able to talk straight to his father and ends up defending him in court on a bribery charge. Rahul Bhole and Vinit Kanojia directed and edited it from a script by Prem Gadhavi, Nikita Shah and Aditi Varma, with Malhar Thakar as Akshay Pandya opposite Darshan Jariwala as Hasmukh, and Vandana Pathak and Yukti Randeria in support. It ran 139 minutes, Prashant Satose scored it, Panorama Studios distributed, and it opened nationwide on 14 March 2025 into Holi. Pinkvilla reported it as the biggest opening day for a Gujarati film in 2025 at that point in the year.
Reported gross is Rs 14 crore in the Ormax sourced table. The line to watch is the producer credit, where Malhar Thakar's name sits alongside Jeegar Chauhan, Jigar Parmar and Jimmy Satish Asija. Gujarati actors have started financing the films they front rather than waiting for a casting call, which is the same move Manasi Parekh made on Jhamkudi a year earlier. Combined with the Surat cinema that reportedly swapped Sikandar night shows for this film and Umbarro, March 2025 was the month the industry stopped behaving like a supplicant.
Photo: Snehrashmi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The mid table that widened the map
Two films in the year's reported top eight that nobody would have greenlit in 2019: an elderly woman's revenge comedy and a dementia thriller.
7Jai Mata Ji - Let's Rock
A government scheme hands an eighty year old woman four outrageous options: take revenge on her sons and their wives, restart a long lost romance, buy herself a life, or do all three. Manish Saini, whose debut Dhh won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Gujarati at the 65th National Film Awards, wrote and directed it for Amdavad Films, with Neela Mulherkar in the central role and Malhar Thakar, Tiku Talsania, Vandana Pathak, Vyoma Nandi, Aaryan Prajapati, Utkarsh Mazumdar and Shekhar Shukla around her. The poster was launched on 31 March 2025 at the Smt. Maniben Tribhovandas Matru Gruh old age home in Ahmedabad, in front of the audience the film is about.
Kanksha Vasavada of the Times of India rated it 3.5 out of 5 and called the concept fresh and socially relevant, singling out Mulherkar's sharp witted grandmother. Archana Vashisht of Times Now Navbharat also gave 3.5 out of 5, and Ganesh Aaglave of Firstpost described it as a heartwarming slice of life dramedy that handles old age humorously without being cruel about it. Reported gross is Rs 8 crore, seventh on the year's table. Look at what that means in practice: an eighty year old woman opened a film into the reported top eight of a year led by a Rs 120 crore blockbuster. The Gujarati audience is older and more patient than the industry spent a decade assuming.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
8Bhram
A woman living with dementia ends up at the centre of a murder investigation and has to assemble a memory she cannot trust into evidence that might name a killer. Pallav Parikh wrote and directed the suspense thriller, Dhaval Pandya produced it under the CityShor.Tv banner, and it runs two hours and eleven minutes with Mitra Gadhavi, Sonali Lele Desai, Abhinay Banker and Nishma Soni. It went out on 23 May 2025, a dead week in the Gujarati calendar sitting between the summer holidays and the monsoon.
Reported gross is Rs 6 crore, which puts it eighth on the Ormax sourced table for the year. Two things about that are worth pausing on. The first is the producer: CityShor started life as an Ahmedabad city listings and food content brand, and in 2025 it backed a feature that finished inside the year's reported top eight, which tells you where new film money in Gujarat is actually coming from. The second is the premise. An unreliable narrator built on cognitive decline is a hard structural idea, the kind of thing a small industry usually cannot afford to risk. In 2025 it was affordable.
Photo: Jaydev Pala, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The films the box office table never counted
Seven releases with no published lifetime gross, ranked on reception, craft and what they signalled. This is where 2025 quietly got interesting.
9Maharani
A working mother and the housekeeper who effectively runs her home spend 143 minutes negotiating a relationship that is part alliance, part class war and part friendship neither will admit to. Viral Shah, who made Golkeri and Kutch Express, directed a remake of the 2024 Marathi hit Nach Ga Ghuma, written for Gujarati by Raam Mori and Hardik Sangani. Manasi Parekh plays Manasi and Shraddha Dangar plays Rani, with Ojas Rawal, Sanjay Goradia, Kaushambi Bhatt and Tarjanee Bhadla around them, and Parth Bharat Thakkar scoring. Divya Bhaskar rated it 3.5 out of 5 and called Shraddha Dangar the soul of the film, while flagging the limited setting and some visible sponsor placements as drawbacks.
The credits are the story here. Raam Mori won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2017 for his debut short story collection Mahotu, and he is now writing mainstream Gujarati cinema instead of only literary fiction. On the money side, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak of Panorama Studios co-produced a Gujarati film outright rather than merely distributing one, alongside Monkey God Entertainment, Summit Studios and Eka Entertainment. No lifetime figure was published for it, which is exactly the gap this list exists to name. A Gujarati film can now attract a literary award winner and Hindi studio capital and still finish the year with no reported number attached to it.
Photo: Farhad Shaikh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
10Mithada Maheman
Aditya has decided to end his life and three strangers turn up and ruin the plan. Chinmay Parmar wrote and directed his first feature from that premise, running 115 minutes with Yash Soni, Aarohi Patel, Mitra Gadhavi and Mihir Nishith Rajda, a Rahul Munjariya score and Panorama Studios on distribution. It released nationwide on 18 April 2025, into Good Friday. Kanksha Vasavada of the Times of India rated it 3.5 out of 5, praising the debut direction, the storytelling and the music, and noting that the second half drags where the first half does not.
The eight name producer line is what makes this a 2025 film rather than a 2019 one, and the last name on it is Krishnadev Yagnik. The director of Chhello Divas, Shu Thayu?, Vash and Vash Level 2 spent the year putting his own money and name behind a first timer's suicide-adjacent dramedy instead of only making his own films. No lifetime gross was published. Read it as a succession story: the generation that restarted the industry in 2015 is now underwriting the generation that will run it, and doing it on a script no bank would have understood.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
11Shubhchintak
A woman and two accomplices set out to honey trap a man for revenge and find the plan turning on them morally long before it turns on them practically. Nisarg Vaidya directed the crime thriller from a script by Viraf Patel, Kapil Sahetya and Chetan Daiya, running 141 minutes, produced by Parthiv Gohil and Manasi Parekh under Soul Sutra with RD Brothers Movies and co-produced by Dhaval Thakkar. Manasi Parekh plays Meghna, Viraf Patel plays the target, and Swapnil Joshi, Deep Vaidya, Mehul Buch, Esha Kansara and Tusharika Rajyaguru fill it out.
Two crossings make this a marker for 2025. Swapnil Joshi, one of the biggest names in Marathi cinema, made his Gujarati debut here and told Bollywood Hungama he felt it was the best opportunity to expand his range, which is a sentence no Marathi star would have said about a Gujarati film a decade ago. And Soul Sutra, fresh off the National Award winning Kutch Express and the horror comedy hit Jhamkudi, followed both with a morally uncomfortable thriller rather than repeating the formula that worked. No lifetime gross was published for it, which is why it sits here and not higher.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
12Deda
An ordinary middle class father keeps going for his family through circumstances that would justify stopping. Hema Shukla wrote and directed it as her debut feature, produced by Brijesh Narola under Brijraj Entertainment, with Gaurav Paswala and Helly Shah leading and Sonali Lele Desai, Mehul Buch, Hiten Tejwani, Sanjay Galsar, Chetan Daiya and Asrani in support. It released on 4 July 2025. Kanksha Vasavada of the Times of India called it a heartwarming story nicely directed and presented, with music and a background score that carry the emotion, and said Gaurav Paswala's intense performance counts among the finest of his career. Kishan Prajapati of Gujarati Jagran described it as the story of a middle class father who keeps struggling steadfastly through the worst of it.
Two things sit under that. Hema Shukla directing her first Gujarati feature adds to a very short list of women directing in this language, and 2025 saw more of them than any year before it. And Helly Shah, a Hindi television lead with a national following, took a Gujarati film and said openly that there is no better feeling than working in her mother tongue. That is the reputational flip in one quote: Gujarati cinema used to be the thing performers left, and in 2025 it became the thing they came back for. No lifetime gross was published.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
13Goti Lo
Nilkanthrai Mehta has lost his wife, lives alone in the family house in Sundarpur, and invents an imaginary friend called Chandu as a pretext to get his scattered children and grandchildren home. They come, and then sit on their phones. So he announces that the ancestral house is being converted into an old age home, and the family has to win a traditional games competition to stop him. Deepak Antani directed, Gaurang Bhavsar and Ashok Upadhyaya wrote it, and Manoj Joshi carries the film with Mehul Buch, Manav Rao and Bhavya Sirohi. It ran 120 minutes and released on 27 June 2025, timed to Ratha Yatra.
Antani is the detail. He is a character actor of three decades best known for playing Mahatma Gandhi across films, plays, documentaries and museum installations, with entries in the Limca Book of Records and the India Book of Records for the number of times he has done it, and in 2025 he stepped behind the camera. The film was co-produced with ISH Creations in the United States, which is diaspora capital arriving in a small Gujarati production rather than a prestige one. No lifetime gross was published for it, and the trailer went out simultaneously on YouTube and social platforms, which is how films at this budget now reach an audience at all.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
14Fari Ek Vaar
A story about lonely people finding their way back to each other, built around lives that are nowhere near perfect and are held together by the people in them anyway. Akhil Kotak directed from Kajal Mehta's script, Vihaan Dand produced under Madhu Entertainment and Media, and it runs 128 minutes with Supriya Pathak Kapur as Kusum, Tiku Talsania as Rishikesh, and Netri Trivedi, Avani Modi, Utsav Naik, Morli Patel, Bharat Thakkar and Komal Panchal around them. Dharmadev Maniar and Kruz of Aghori Muzik split the score, released on Tips Music, and the film went out on 12 September 2025.
Casting is the whole argument. Supriya Pathak Kapur, one of the most decorated actors of her generation in Hindi cinema and theatre, taking a Gujarati lead is the same signal Ratna Pathak Shah sent in Bachu Ni Benpani three weeks earlier, and the two films share more than a surname. Tiku Talsania, who has spoken publicly about rebuilding his working life after a brain stroke, plays opposite her. No lifetime gross was published. What the film has instead is a cast sheet that a Gujarati producer in 2015 could not have assembled at any price.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
15Vande Bharat Via USA
Rohan Thakkar is a young Gujarati immigrant in Los Angeles working a stack of odd jobs while chasing permanent residency, and the film turns his green card grind into a comedy about ambition, family and what a person is willing to hide. Jaymin Patel directed, Malhar Thakar plays Rohan opposite Pooja Jhaveri and Kelly Pearson, and Alex Bhagat, Kishan Dholiya, Rutuja Mane and Himanshu Solanki produced across Wardwizard Entertainment, Aasman Productions, Sake Spectacle, De Rio and Spacetime Moviies. It runs 127 minutes, Parth Bharat Thakkar scored it, Rahul Bhole edited it after co-directing All the Best Pandya earlier in the same year, and it released on 25 December 2025.
Take the year as a shape. It opened on 24 January with seven women from rural Gujarat flying to London in Umbarro and closed on Christmas Day with a Gujarati man stuck in Los Angeles chasing a visa. In between, a Melbourne haunted house comedy ran 164 days and a film shot at Girnar became the first Gujarati title screened at Cannes. The diaspora stopped being an export market for these films and became a place they are set. No lifetime gross was published for this one, and it is the third Malhar Thakar release on this list, after All the Best Pandya and Jai Mata Ji - Let's Rock, which is its own comment on how thin the bench of bankable Gujarati leads still is.
Photo: Sreeni Media, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
What the numbers say
2025 Gujarati releases by reported worldwide gross
All figures are industry-reported and not audited. Gujarati cinema has no certified box office tracker, so these are compiled from Ormax Media reports, film infobox citations and trade press including Moneycontrol, Pinkvilla, Koimoi and Sacnilk, and they differ between outlets. Seven of the fifteen films on this page carry no published lifetime gross at all and are therefore absent from this chart.
Questions people actually ask
What was the best Gujarati film of 2025?
Laalo - Krishna Sada Sahaayate, directed by Ankit Sakhiya and released on 10 October 2025, on both commercial and historical grounds. It is reported at around Rs 120 crore worldwide, the first Gujarati film past Rs 100 crore, and in May 2026 it became the first Gujarati film screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Critics were positive rather than ecstatic, with PNN at 4 out of 5 and Movie Talkies at 3.5 out of 5.
How many Gujarati films released in 2025 and how much did the industry make?
Roughly sixty Gujarati films released theatrically across the year, spread fairly evenly from January to late December. Ormax Media reported the industry at Rs 242 crore for 2025, up 189 percent on a reported Rs 89 crore in 2024, and reported that Gujarati films crossed Rs 100 crore collectively for the first time within the January to October window alone.
Which 2025 Gujarati films got the best reviews?
Umbarro took 4 out of 5 from both the Times of India and Mumbai Samachar. Jai Mata Ji - Let's Rock, Mithada Maheman, Maharani and Bachu Ni Benpani all landed 3.5 out of 5 from major outlets. Vash Level 2 drew the widest national coverage, with reviews in India Today, The Hollywood Reporter, Rediff and Scroll.in, and the response there was mixed to positive rather than uniform.
Why do some films on this list have no box office figure at all?
Because nobody published one. Gujarati cinema has no certified box office tracker of the kind Bollywood has, so figures only exist when a trade outlet or an Ormax Media report chooses to publish them, and mid-budget releases routinely finish their runs uncounted. Seven of the fifteen films here have no reported lifetime gross, so they are ranked on reception, craft and industry significance instead of on a number that does not exist.
Which 2025 Gujarati film was left off this list and why?
Faati Ne?, the Faisal Hashmi comedy horror shot in Melbourne, which is reported at Rs 11.36 crore on Sacnilk against a reported Rs 1.5 crore budget and ran 164 days. It earned a place on merit. It is dropped because no free-licensed photograph exists of anyone connected to the film and no official film Instagram account could be found and verified, and this site publishes neither studio images nor unverified handles.
Sources and image credits
All photographs are free-licensed files from Wikimedia Commons, reused with the attribution each licence requires. No press agency or studio photographs are hosted on this site. Instagram content is linked or embedded from the official account, never re-hosted.
- English Wikipedia, List of Gujarati films of 2025, including its Ormax Media sourced box office table, retrieved July 2026
- English Wikipedia film articles for all fifteen films and their cited trade sources, retrieved July 2026
- Ormax Media, The Rs 100 Cr moment for Gujarati cinema, October 2025, and The Ormax Box Office Report 2025, January 2026
- Moneycontrol, Here is how Gujarati cinema had its decade high box office run in 2025
- Pinkvilla box office reporting on Laalo and on the biggest Gujarati opening day of 2025
- Bollywood Hungama on the Laalo VPF waiver, the Surat screen swap and Gujarati cinema crossing Rs 200 crore in a calendar year
- Koimoi and Box Office Mojo tracking for Umbarro, and Sacnilk for Faati Ne?
- Times of India reviews by Kanksha Vasavada for Umbarro, Jai Mata Ji - Let's Rock, Mithada Maheman and Deda
- India Today, The Hollywood Reporter, Rediff and Scroll.in reviews of Vash Level 2
- Divya Bhaskar review of Maharani and Mid-Day Gujarati review of Bachu Ni Benpani
- Indian Express, Financial Express and DeshGujarat on Laalo crossing Rs 100 crore, and Moneycontrol on its Cannes screening
- Wikimedia Commons imageinfo API for every photograph licence and attribution on this page
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