Q. Will Raees remain highest grosser of the year till Tiger Zinda Hai (excluding Baahubali) ?
A. Golmaal Again should easily beat Raees to become the highest grosser of the year. It’s a film that the family audience would want to watch and as long as its not a bad film, it should top the year in October. Before that we have films like Jab Harry Met Sejal, Toilet Ek Prem Katha and Judwaa 2 – with good content these films could beat Raees. After Golmaal Again, the big films are Padmavati and Tiger Zinda Hai.
Q. How much film makers spend on marketing?
A. It varies from film to film. The average marketing spend on medium to big budget film is 10-15 crore. Much lesser for smaller films.
Q. Any pre release reports of Jab Harry Met Sejal? Can it go beyond 175 Cr, if it’s WOM is positive?
A. If the film is exceptional, then anything is possible. But a lot would depend on the start it gets. Very few films these days are even doubling their weekend total, so to get to 175 crore – Jab Harry Met Sejal has to open above the 20 crore mark, grow over the weekend to get to a 65-70 crore weekend and then trend very well over the weekdays. Even after that – since it only has one open week – the kind of response that Toilet Ek Prem Katha gets will have a direct impact on the lifetime business of Jab Harry Met Sejal. We are currently looking at 170 crore range with exceptional word-of-mouth, 140 crore with good word-of-mouth, 100 crore with average word-of-mouth and 80 crore range if the response is poor. All of these numbers are only expectations, the opening day number will be crucial. The film will be in trouble if it falls below 17 crore on Day 1.
Q. How much does cooperate booking affect the first day business?
A. A fixed number cannot be put for corporate booking, it varies from film to film. Usually block corporate bookings are made for the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
Q. Will Golmaal 4 have a clash with Robot 2 or not?
A. No. Robot 2.0 has been pushed to early 2018.
Q. At worst case what will be minimum collection of ‘Golmal Again’? I didn’t liked much ‘Golmaal Returns and Golmaal 3’
A. Individual opinion of liking or not liking a film does not make any difference at the box office. As long as majority of the paying public like a film, it’ll do well. Golmaal Again has competition from Secret Superstar during Diwali, but it should be the first choice for the family audience.We wouldn’t be surprised if it does 30 crore plus on the Diwali holiday. It should easily get to 100 crore plus maybe 200-250 crore if it turns out to be entertaining or the best Golmaal film.
Q. Is Hrithik going through a bad phase again? Considering his last few films have disappointed, and he takes a long time to sign films
A. The post Bang Bang phase hasn’t been good. His films haven’t been opening, but the promos of both his releases have been extremely poor too. We’ve seen how even a Salman Khan during Eid can deliver an ‘average’ box office opening when the trailer isn’t liked or when it doesn’t cater to the all-India audience / fan base. As for not signing enough films, it’s his personal choice. He isn’t very competitive and we don’t think he has the desire to be one amongst the top actors in the industry. The number game or sustaining his level in the industry probably isn’t important for him, as it is for some of the other stars in the industry.
Q. Which movie will be the biggest hit of the year 2017…?
A. Our pick in order of preference – Tiger Zinda Hai, Golmaal Again, Padmavati.
Q. What is lifetime box office prediction of Mubarakan?
A. Our final prediction for the film is 45 crore. Monday will decide the fate of the film. Anything below 4 crore will be end of the story. It needs Friday level collections on Monday to ensure that it gets fair amount of shows at multiplexes in the second weekend when Jab Harry Met Sejal releases. The overall response is better than Munna Michael, but due to the extremely poor start, it has a lot left to do over the weekdays and after the release of the SRK film.
Q. @indicine I’m visiting your site since 2012 and i have read almost all of your articles q/a session etc… i know team indicine is very hard working and you never post fake news till now, and thats why i’m your biggest fan.. please answer me this time.. do you think pakistani movies can release in india in the near future because indian people appreciate pakistani movies.. do you think any pakistani hit movie can survive like bollywood movie in india.. Big Thank you..!!
A. Thanks for visiting. As compared to the popularity of Hindi films and its stars in Pakistan, there’s very little awareness about Pakistani films in India. We are not too sure about the overall quality of Pakistani films either. Our own industry is struggling to get decent initial for our films, 9 out of 10 films are failing. Films like Mubarakan and Munna Michael are collecting 5-6 crore with successful directors and rising stars. So even if Pakistani films start releasing here, it’ll take time for it grow in popularity.
Q. Which actor and actress has the most Top Grossers of The Year in Bollywood history?
A. From 1989, Salman Khan has topped the year 9 times (not including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) last was Bajrangi Bhaijaan in 2015. Aamir Khan has delivered the highest grosser of the year 7 times, last was Dangal last year. SRK 5 times, last was Om Shanti Om in 2007. After that it’s Hrithik, 3 times, last was Dhoom 2 in 2016. Sunny Deol twice, last was Gadar 2001. Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and others have never topped the year.
Q. Is Battle Of Saragarhi starring Akshay Kumar happening with Karan Johar and Salman Khan ?
A. It’s not happening in the near future. Salman Khan has backed out, but this has not been officially confirmed.
Q. Is Ajay Devgn really making Sons of Sardar ?
A. Not happening now. He had planned the film first, but the same subject was taken by Karan Johar / Akshay Kumar for Battle of Saragarhi. Ajay will now make Taanaji.
Q. What are your expectations from Toilet Ek Prem Katha and Baadshaho?
A. Toilet Ek Prem Katha Trailer got a good response, but there’s been nothing exciting since. The songs haven’t really worked. They’ve also revealed a lot about the film in the promos, so it’ll be down to word-of-mouth. At this moment, we expect a slightly better opening than Jolly LLB 2. Baadshaho has got a mixed response.
Q. Gentleman vs Judwaa 2 vs Padmavati vs Dutt. Which among this movie will be biggest hit for younger actors?
A. Our pick would be Dutt. It has both the best actor and best director.
Q. How is the buzz for JHMS?
A. Good, but only at major cities.
Q. What is the difference between theatre and screen?
A. One 3-screen multiplex counts as one theatre, but screen-count will be 3.
Q. Seeing the recent work, success – failure, age who will be in Top 5 and Top 10 in coming 5 years among the actors?
A. Ranbir, Varun and Ranveer have found acceptance. But it’s still difficult to imagine this industry without stalwarts like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar.
What is the Internal report of the toilet ek prem Katha. Negative or positive and also buzz of the movie.
Do you have any clarifications or inside news regarding Hrithik’s next movies ? You are one who is watching closely the box office as well as the audience choice of films so according to you what kind of film he should do to get back to top 3 ?
Is salman doing Dabangg 3 or Remo’s untitled next for Eid ?
hey indicine, the advance booking of jhms already start, the craze among srk fans for the movie unprecendent.do you think it can open 25+ cr on friday,beacuse srk backs to romance after 5 years.
srk and anand l rai movie release date?
Is it true that Hrithik has been approached for Immortals of meluha ? Is that the same movie i.e Shuddhi he was going to do last year ?
Isn’t this the worst phase of Bollywood? Honestly nothing is working for the industry at the moment. If we remove Aamir, Salman and Akshay, 2016 was a disaster. It’s a shame that ppl are not interested in coming out for a hindi film, but came in jaw-dropping for a regional film and the youth is more interested in watching Hollywood films like Dunkirk instead of hindi Munna Micheal.
after the debacle of tubelight, will salman face a bad phase that srk is facing for last 3-4 yrs, just asking as both of them has huge fan following,and another quistion who is bigger crowd puller among srk and salman,as srk even with clashes gives 20 cr opening 2 times on non holiday, but salman never had any clashes since 2010
After seeing the latest trend, do you think Jab Harry Meet Sejal can be another example of unperformed at the first day ? Do you think, JHMS can touch 15 crore first day?
Can JHMS have any chance to cross 200 life time collection ? and TEPK can effect who also coming week after on 11 August?
i guess jhms will do 150+ cr at domestic box office and in overseas a minimum of 120 cr+.what do you think??
What is your final take on JHMS first day boxoffice collection?
how many screen will jhms will get in domestic and overseas market??
Hi indicine, thanks for #AskIndicine session, i am visiting your site since 2011 and this is my first question plz answer,
What will be the lifetime collection of #JHMS if it finds appreciation among audience? And what in the worst scenario?
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When is Secret Superstar Trailer Releasing?
Aamir’s Next After ToH,
When is it scheduled to Release?
The rate at which movies are failing at the moment . How many hits are needed along with boxoffice collctions is needed needed to make this year at least a decent year ???
hey indicine, one simple quistion i have never seen other fan bases made fdfs banners for their favorite stars movies to watch in theatre, except srk fans,the craze among srkians during srk movie release is unprecendent,is srk have most craziest fan following than other big stars like ajay, salman, hrithik, aamir
how much tepk will effect jhms in 2nd week of jhms
is there an chance for TEPK to beat RR and becomes akki highest grossers
Dont u think Salman Khan will lose his core fan following brcause of his films choice like tubelight,remo next,ode to my father remake(though a brilliant movie but will not work in c centres salman has huge following in b and c centres)????
Jhms advance booking response and box office prediction
Pls tell me what are the advance booking reports of Jab Harry Met Sejal ?
Do you think that anyone in bollywood will even think of making a horror movie ? Can’t we make a big budgeted horror movie featuring any superstar ?
What is respobse to TEPK dilogue promos. Personally i loved them . But what is overall response. Has it increased buzz of TEPK. And can TEPK cross 15cr on day 1 nd 130cr in lifetime .
What’s your opinion on JHMS music so far?
what happend after post baahubali era that even a superstar movie do not take a good opening, does it will affect to superstar srk movie jhms and effects, then how much it will effect
What is buzz for a gentleman, trailer and song response & box office prediction?
if you have the choose to watch only one film between JHMS and TEPK withe one you will watch
Dont u think Salman Khan has become very intelligent in script selection he is balancing both classes and massses alike like after prdp he did massy sultan then content tubelight then massy tiger then content remo next then massy dabanng3 then content ode to remake then again massy kick 2????
when Tubelight is releasing in China as it also stars a very popular Chinese actress? ??