"Ventilator" premiered at the 18th Mumbai Film Festival on 24 October 2016. Made on a small budget of 35 million (US$550,000), "Ventilator" was released on 4 November 2016 in Maharashtra, and accompanied by English subtitles in several other cities including Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It opened to a positive response at the box office, did good business in its first weekend and continues to perform well in its first week. The film continued to do well in its second weekend; revenues held up well despite the Indian government's surprise currency demonitisation and other big-budget Bollywood and regional films. The film was a commercial success, earning 250 million (US$4 million) at the box office. , "Ventilator" is the 10th highest-grossing Marathi film of all time.