Varun Dhawan extends incredible box office run

With the success of ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’, Varun Dhawan extends his incredible run at the box office. The actor now has 8 back-to-back successful films, starting from the beginning of his career in 2012 to his latest release.

In other words, the producers of his films have never lost money, which is a pretty big deal at the very beginning of a career. In fact, his biggest commercial disappointment was a big film like ‘Dilwale’ where the responsibility of the film’s success was on the shoulders of a much bigger star. 

There’s been a steady growth in the level of the opening that his films are getting too. In the first half of his career, his films would open somewhere between 6-10 crore, while his last three films have all achieved opening day totals of 10-15 crore. Also, none of his films have opened to collections of less than 6 crore on the first day – something that none of the actors, barring 4 of the biggest, have managed in the last 5 years.

His choice of films has been excellent and when experimenting with darker off-beat films like Badlapur, the economics have been spot-on – giving films with limited reach a chance to be successful at the box office.

With a big film like ‘Judwaa 2’ scheduled to release later this year, 2017 could well be the year when Varun inches closer to becoming the top young star in the industry. The ‘superstar’ status is still a fair distance away. Among stars who made their debut after 2005, only Ranbir Kapoor has come closest to it after the release of ‘Yeh Jawaan Hai Deewani’.

But if Varun can continue to make the right choices and manages to extend and establish his fan-base, the trade could look at the him very differently in the next 2-3 years.

Note: Badrinath Ki Dulhania is still running at the box office. The film has already recovered its investment and is a clean box office hit. It could go on to be a super-hit or even a blockbuster if it does well in the next few days.

MovieDateCollectionVerdict
Student Of The Year19 Oct 201270 crHit
Main Tera Hero04 Apr 2014 54 crHit
Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania11 Jul 201477 crSuper Hit
Badlapur20 Feb 201553 crHit
ABCD 219 July 2015105 crSuper Hit
Dilwale18 Dec 2015148 crSemi Hit
Dishoom29 July 201670 crAbove Average
Badrinath Di Dulhania10 Mar 2017115 cr*Super Hit
8 Movies5 years692 cr*
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35 Comments

  • To be honest i havent seen anything extraordinary in varun dhawan. Ranveer singh is my most favorite young supersta

  • To be honest i havent seen anything extraordinary in varun dhawan so far. He is not that talented. I think he is overrated like ranbeer. He is just like govinda of 1990s. My most favorite is ranveer singh and i will bet on hin to be future megastar. He should reject craps like befikre and focus on choosing clean masala entertainers which connects to families and masses alike. Then he will be far ahead of these idiots like varun dhawan.

  • @Indicine

    I wonder how you determine if someone is a superstar. You keep mentioning that Ranbir Kapoor is the only one among the younger generation, but I don’t understand how you make that judgement. He has only had 4 really good successes and has had several disasters. In fact his disasters are even more recent.
    I would think Varun has a better showing than Ranbir

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