Varun Dhawan the top male star in the first half of 2017

The unthinkable has happened. The first half of the year had movie releases featuring four of the Top 5 established superstars in the industry – Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan. Only Aamir Khan didn’t have a movie release.

Yet, it’s Varun Dhawan, who hadn’t even made his debut at the beginning of the decade, who tops the first half of the year. His film ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’ is not only the biggest hit of the year so far, but also the most profitable Hindi film. Alia Bhatt too made her presence felt and Dharma Productions’ is the banner behind two of the year’s most successful films – ‘Bahubali 2: The Conclusion’ and ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’.

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees’ was the first major release of the year and it remains one of the few films to get an ‘excellent’ initial at the box office.

Top 5 Movies that managed to make a mark, opening-wise:

  • Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (Hindi) – Bumper, record-breaking opening.
  • Raees – Excellent opening considering clash with another big film (Kaabil).
  • Badrinath Ki Dulhania – Good opening at multiplexes, excellent at mass centres.
  • Sachin: A Billion Dreams – For a docudrama, the opening can be categorised as excellent.
  • Half Girlfriend – The competition was intense, Half Girlfriend got a good initial, faltered second day onwards.

Salman’s Tubelight, Akshay’s Jolly LLB 2 and Hrithik’s Kaabil were amongst the films that opened below trade expectations.

Biggest hits of the year:

  • Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (Hindi) – All Time Blockbuster, incomparable to any other film.
  • Badrinath Ki Dulhania – One of the most profitable films for Dharma Productions in recent times, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt carried the film.
  • Hindi Medium – Surprise hit, went on to beat ‘Half Girlfriend’ and finish with lifetime business of 67 crore.
  • Jolly LLB 2 – It was the first clean-hit of the year. Akshay Kumar continued his consistent run and delivered yet another 100 crore grosser.
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  • Today our Bhaitard office India wrote an fantastic article where they claim that Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the biggest hit of the century. For this we need to forget Gadar, Bahubali 2 (which was near about the bollywood film when it compared with Dangal). They are excepted that It was Kabir who made Bajrangi Bhaijaan the biggest hit of 21st century. There were enough fighting for the film. People were beating like anything etc etc. That’s why the film opened with 27cr on first day, second day of it was the EID but mind you it didn’t break Highest single day on that holiday (36.5cr) and Later on Sunday it broken the highest single day record of PK 37.75cr (Sunday) on first Sunday. The Weekend collection was near about the Dhoom3 first 3 days figure all india which had only one holiday while BB has 2 in first 3 days. Later film just about managed to collect 183cr on first week, which was around D3 first week & PK first week figures. So where the people throng to theater on that big numbers.
    Now lets talk about circumstances, Bahubali collecting with a decent pace throughout its run, its not like that It creating huge waves both in north & south which hampered BB like BM did with Dilwale. Drishyam opened with mere 5cr and weekend was 20cr+. Also Drishyam was a niche thriller not a masala potboiler and Brothers came at 5th week not on 4th week. Even in any case if we accept BB collected 30lac ff more than even in that case it was just 10 lac ahead than Dangal.

    Let’s see Dangal circumstances, the Film is never serve the Hero as larger than life. The film release when small centers also still facing currency crisis (where on spot booking are huge). Both the Holiday i.e Christmas & New year day fallen to Sunday. Just imagine if these 2 days were on any weekdays or fallen on Saturday. Dangal it self could breach the 10-12 cr more with that advantage. Because even without these it had highest first & second weekend collection till date of any bollywood movie. So 10lacs FF could came from here even ruling out the demonetization here. Now Dangal has collected 225m$ from overseas. Its footfall in China is 4.2cr and counting. So even India+China FF is 8cr (forget the rest of overseas business).
    So BB-3.85cr FF, Dangal – 3.85cr FFwith all circumstances In India
    Now look at economics.
    Highest grosser from bollywood – Domestic – Dangal (387cr)
    Overseas – Dangal – 30.7m$ from tradition market highest & 225m$ if count China & Taiwan.
    WW- 702cr (Hindi), 719cr (Hindi+dubbed) & 1982cr* when count with China.
    distributer share – 185cr Dangal Domestic (161cr BB)
    WW – Dangal – 550cr, Bajrangi Bhaijaan – 245cr (that also mentioned by BOI when they compared Dangal with Bahubali2).

    So Proft, boxoffice, appreciation, footfalls, biggest movie to generate highest footfalls ever. Still Bhaitard india com saying BB is the biggest hit of this century. Epic chtiyapa or ass licking of Salman Khan.

  • Now talk about the biggest hit of this century apart from Gadar according to BOI real value factor.
    Gadar & K3G probably were only two movie post 2000 which had 3cr footfall until 3Idiots happened.
    From 2002-2007, highest footfall of bollywood was Dhoom 2 with 2.15cr.
    Ghajini came and started the trend of 100cr club in 2008 and its FF was 2.40cr. Which was only the third movie post 2001 which crossed 2cr mark along with Devdas-2.05cr & Dhoom2.
    Then Came 3Idiots. Now analyze how big the impact of this movie was.
    It was still the most loved movie of bollywood this century even bigger than the likes of Gadar.
    Its Footfalls is 3.17cr so from 2002-2009 it was only movie to cross 3cr FF.
    The Gap between Ghajini & 3I is huge around 77lacs.
    Salman’s blockbuster apart from BB & Sultan failed to even touching 2.5cr FF after that. Dabangg series,bodyguard,kick,ETT all were failed to touch 3cr mark. SRK’s CE touched 2.55cr.
    Dhoom 3 came and its all version ff is 3.10cr (2.97cr Hindi)
    than came PK which breached 3.5cr ff.
    So from 2010-2014 who had highest footfall. Aamir which has 2 (D3 & PK) in 3cr category.
    Difference between PK & Salman’s highest FF was 1 cr. That shows how difficult the market were to bring large audience into theatres from 2002-2014.
    Then Came bajrangi bhaijaan which crossed PK with 4 lac margin and 30lac more on real value.
    Dangal easily sailed BB and had 20lac ff. Even with real value factor its almost equal. Than how BB took the boxoffice potential on different league all togheter. It was only Aamir who did this. He also become only actor who has 3 films which crossed 3cr FF back to back. And the third rated site which claimed HAHK footfall 4.68cr till 2013 and changed that with 7.5cr in 2015. What a logic. Disgraceful.

  • @ Sayar You said 2 things. JHMS will be flop (less than 100 crore) and TPK will be blockbuster. If you are man enough stick to these prediction and meet after movie release.

  • @Amara perfectly said!!! Indian audiences expect different when offered they dont like!! JhMS going to be huge shocked why Indicine thinks its gna open 18crore? Imagine if it did what would the opening of Tepk be like?? 10 or 11 crore? jhms will dominate second week!!! This ones gna be a huge game changer for srk!! Wait for the main trailer!!!

  • @Amara perfectly said!!! Indian audiences expect different when offered they dont like!! JhMS going to be huge shocked why Indicine thinks its gna open 18crore? Imagine if it did what would the opening of Tepk be like?? 10 or 11 crore? jhms will dominate second week!!! This ones gna be a huge game changer for srk!! Wait for the main trailer!!! Epic

  • Bahubali 2 to release in china in September 400p screens gna be huge!! Dangals record will be destroyed

  • How can some idiots can call tubelight a disaster when it is going to collect 150 cr. every movie can not collect 300 cr. thats why they are termed as all time blockbuster and 200 cr. are called superhits and FYI tubelight producers collected 260cr. before release so if movie fails to collect expected they are morally bound to return amount to cover distributors loss so that everybody could get profit then how the film is flop.
    First get a knowledge about bollywood economics then give your idiotic verdicts.

  • Varun is over rated. Indicine is failing to gause the pulse of audiences.

    Without doubt it should be Prabhas. Indicine is never giving some credit to Prabhas. It was his charisma along with rajamouli’s direction that brought audiences in theatres.

    Indicine needs to look at the no. of youtube downloads of Prabhas’s hindi dubbed movies.
    In second week of June, his Billa movie was premiered on Sony Max. Please see the television ratinga on BARC india website. Billa topped for hindi movies.

    North audience is looking for Prabhas. Not Varun, Ranbir, Ranvir or Siddhartha..

  • Indicine’s criteria changes based on Their toward star
    Rabne bana di Jodi was most profitable movie 2008 but Amir is star of the year. Same as chennai express

    Raees is biggest grosser (1st half of the year, only hindi) domestic overseas worldwide but varun is star of first half because of most profitable. Yeh to public hai Bhai Sab janti hai

  • “If you are talking about Khans then it was SRK followed by Salman followed by Aamir. But the 90s overall belonged to Sunny Deol”-BOI

    Ahem, okay
    Until 1997(Before border)
    Top-2 highest openers, both were SRK starrers
    -Koyla(SRK)
    -Trimurti(SRK)

    After Boarder
    -Boarder
    -Koyla
    -Trimurti
    -DTPH

    (3 out of 4 were srk starrers)

    From 2001-2004 december, top openers
    -Main hoo na
    -Veer Zaara
    -K3g
    -MSK(This one may be wrong, pardon)
    -Devdas
    4 out of 5 were srk starrers
    All top-3 were SRK starrtes

    We have such record since 1993(BOI update left).

    “U keep on talking about Pre-Eid. Well K3G was also pre eid, u know its opening, right?”-From a reader
    Don was pre-eid(Eid-deewali), u know its opening in clash.So pre-eid is just your “BAHANA”

  • @sky

    Have been seeing you blabbering nonstop bakwas on Bhai and Bhai fans these days. If sites like BOI or Indicine do not call Aamir no.1 even after Tubelight’s failure isme Bhai ya Bhai fans ki kya galti??? Stop showing your frustration everywhere….. And FYI one Tubelight has changed nothing. Salman is still light years ahead of others…..

    Out of top 20 highest openers 8 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Out of Top 20 highest weekend 9 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Out of top 20 highest first week collections 8 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Bollywood’s top 2 highest opening day still belong to Salman Khan.

    Out of bollywood’s 10 bumper openers of the decade 5 belong to Salman Khan.

    Out of top 15 Khans openers 8 are Salman Khan starrers..

  • @Kamz thanks, it’s now really a problem, bollywood is not improving because of its audience, how can a 50 year old man still romance a 20 year old actresses? Not producers nor actors fault but because of audience, that’s what they want. How can an actress of 30 years not have a carrier in bollywood, same audience faults. Not many people in my country Nigeria enjoys bollywood movie anymore, because of unnecessary dancing in between movies, out the blue people start dancing, very unnecessary and time wasting and too many unrealistic love stories and love triangle. I think producers and directors, should find a middle ground to Carter for both Indian audience and other races. That’s why Hollywood is still leading the world.

  • @vishal you are correct, south actor movies are dominating the television market. If south movies is dubbed in Hindi and released with a bit of promotion then they will throw our so called overated actor like varun, siddarth, ranvir, ranbir etc from the Hindi market. specially these actor Allu Arjun, Prabhas, Mahesh Babu and they might even give a tight competition to the A-list actor as they are good looking and can act much better than our so called A-list actor.

  • @Tiger, yes I am chanting bad about Salman a bit, but what I have said is just a fact. I don’t give a damn to Indicine or BOI ranking but yes I have really hurt when a site who consistently changes verdict/footfalls of older movies and then come with stupid articles like BB is biggest hit of century not Dangal?
    I just showed the fact about the circumstances. Forget me, if Salman starred with Dangal, and If any one calling Bajrangi Bhaijaan biggest hit, do you agree or getting hurt? And with tubelight it clearly showed who is bigger. Salman despite being in his best phase, given one of the biggest disaster on a festival which he dominated raise many questions on Stardom. Call Srk or Salman the biggest superstar I Don’t give a damn but who gives right to chu… trade to degrade Dangal success.
    Which Bollywood movie have achieved 4cr+ footfall in overseas and Distributer share more than Domestic when the Domestic share itself is Biggest of all time from bollywood. I won’t agree with same and I will talk this. And yes Many Salman fans including you,anand were also chanting bad about Aamir on twitter many times. So why questioning me?

  • Varun is terrible average. He can’t maintain the momentum. His victories are too mamuli. What Bollywood audience need is Mast daasu original movie. Hai kissi actor meh yeh daamn to really give a big hit that Bollywood needs right now. Or is the hope still pinned on 50 year old actors….

  • @sky
    “I don’t give a damn to Indicine or BOI”…..If this is true then WTH you bother what they say/write?? Chup raha karo naa!

    When did I question anything? I just replied to ur nonstop crying. As far as Twitter is concerned I don’t bash other stars except srk until their fans provoke. I do the same on indicine too.

    One Tubelight has proven nothing buddy. Let’s talk with statistics (opening numbers)……

    Highest first day – Salman Khan starrer

    Highest first weekend – Salman Khan starrer

    Highest first week – Salman Khan starrer

    Highest first day WW – Salman Khan starrer

    Highest first weekend WW – Salman Khan starrer

    Highest first Week WW – Salman Khan starrer
    .
    .
    .

    Now let’s have a look at consistency……

    Out of top 20 highest openers 8 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Out of Top 20 highest weekend 9 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Out of top 20 highest first week collections 8 are Salman Khan starrers.

    Bollywood’s top 2 highest opening day still belong to Salman Khan.

    Out of bollywood’s 10 bumper openers of the decade 5 belong to Salman Khan.

    Out of top 15 Khans openers 8 are Salman Khan starrers..

    Conclusion : Salman is still light years ahead of others as far as opening numbers are concerned.

  • Varun is a very average actor but he selects only mass films .. he doesnt think about unique or quality films + low budget .. he said i dont care about role or film quality only boxoffice.. i dont like his overacting

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