It did. Not US but Canada. Canada market has doubled/tripled in last 5 years or so. A few years back in 2018, Sanju did $6M in US and $1.9M in Canada. Today Animal will do $7.75-8M in US and $7-7.5M in Canada. or a direct comparison, TZH did $4.5M in US and $1.4M in Canada. Tiger 3 did $3.2M in US and $2.4M in Canada. US dropped to 70% of TZH but Canada increased to 170%.
There is also some point of inflation during 2-3 years of CoVID and likes of Jawan and Pathaan got IMAX as well, which was rare for Hindi films prior.