Airlift has become the 18th fastest film to cross the 100 crore mark and the 4th fastest non-festive (i.e releasing outside Eid, Diwali and Christmas) release of all time.
Four films have now crossed 100 crore in 3 days, those are Dhoom 3 (only one holiday on Sunday), Happy New Year, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.
Bang Bang and Singham Returns are the fastest non-festive releases (crossed 100 in 5 days), followed by Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (7 days). The two films tied at the 4th spot are Jai Ho and Airlift.
The other films to cross 100 in 10 days are Ra One and Dabangg.
In total, 42 films have joined what’s popularly called the ’100 crore club’
| Movie | Days | Total collections | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhoom 3 | 3 days | 285 crores | Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif |
| Happy New Year | 3 days | 204 crores | Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone |
| Bajrangi Bhaijaan | 3 days | 321 crores | Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor |
| Prem Ratan Dhan Payo | 3 days | 213 crores | Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor |
| Chennai Express | 3 days +previews | 227 crores | Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone |
| Krrish 3 | 4 days | 244 crores | Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra |
| PK | 4 days | 340 crores | Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma |
| Ek Tha Tiger | 5 days | 199 crores | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif |
| KICK | 5 days | 233 crores | Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandes |
| Singham Returns | 5 days | 139 crores | Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor |
| Bang Bang | 5 days | 180 crores | Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif |
| Dabangg 2 | 6 days | 155 crores | Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha |
| Bodyguard | 7 days | 145 crores | Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor |
| Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani | 7 days | 187 crores | Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone |
| Dilwale | 7 days | 148 crores | SRK, Kajol, Varun, Kriti |
| Bajirao Mastani | 9 days | 186 crores | Ranveer, Deepika, Priyanka |
| 3 Idiots | 9 days +previews | 202 crores | Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor |
| Dabangg | 10 days | 141 crores | Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha |
| Ra.One | 10 days | 125 crores | Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor |
| Jai Ho | 10 days | 112 crores | Salman Khan, Daisy Shah |
| Airlift | 10 days | 128 crores | Akshay Kumar |
| Rowdy Rathore | 11 days | 134 crores | Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha |
| Agneepath | 11 days | 122 crores | Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra |
| Jab Tak Hai Jaan | 11 days | 121 crores | Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif |
| Tanu Weds Manu Returns | 11 days | 151 crores | Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut |
| Ram Leela | 12 days | 115 crores | Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone |
| Ready | 14 days | 120 crores | Salman Khan, Asin |
| Ek Villain | 14 days | 104 crores | Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor |
| Holiday | 15 days | 113 crores | Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha |
| Don 2 | 16 days | 112 crores | Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra |
| Son Of Sardaar | 16 days | 105 crores | Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha |
| Golmaal 3 | 17 days | 108 crores | Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor |
| Housefull 2 | 17 days | 115 crores | Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Asin |
| Barfi | 17 days | 108 crores | Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra |
| ABCD 2 | 17 days | 106 crores | Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor |
| Ghajini | 18 days | 116 crores | Aamir Khan, Asin |
| Race 2 | 22 days | 101 crores | Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham |
| 2 States | 24 days | 102 crores | Arjun Kapoor, Alia Bhatt |
| Bhaag Milkha Bhaag | 25 days | 104 crores | Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor |
| Grand Masti | 25 days | 101 crores | Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Riteish Deshmukh |
| Singham | 37 days | 100 crores | Ajay Devgn, Kajal Agarwal |
| Bol Bachchan | 46 days | 102 crores | Ajay Devgan, Asin, Abhishek Bachchan |
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It’s good for industry that even movies like ‘Airlift’ can do as good a business as the commercial movies , it will encourage directors to make more varieties & genres of movies in general .
Though the ‘100 crores collections’ has really become a small number but it’s only the khans & to an extent hrithik who can give 100 crores in today’s time in any kind of situation with their each & every movie, but for others the release period, content, wom & other factors dictate the movie’s fate .
@ floppu joker kumar fans (especially @babaji the pappu & other joker fans who make fun of salman & aamir) , who is stopping ur money-hungry floppu from making 2 very good movies in a year instead of making those 4 movies in an year (out of which 3 would anyway be craps or south remakes & only 1 would be good movie like the ‘baby’ or ‘airlift’ ) ????
If he just does 2 good movies like Baby or Airlift or Herapheri in an year instead & releases it during festival periods then those movies may collect 150+ crores but for that he needs support from the fans of other stars too bcos floppu’s fans alone can’t make his movies BBs , they are just too less in numbers to make a movie BB by themselves :D
I wouldn’t ever attribute Airlift’s success solely to floppy or his fans alone bcos it was too good a movie & being a patriotic one released during republic day period it was watched by fans of other stars too bcos of its content & very +ve wom, instead had it starred khans (Salman & aamir in particular) or even hrithik & with such a good wom it would have easily collected 200 – 230 crores by the end of its run.
I really feel that this great movie deserved a much bigger star & better actor than the floppu and so the only benefit of doubt that I can give to salman or aamir or even hrithik not doing these kind of movies is bcos the directors feel that these superstars might become bigger than the movie itself or that their superstardom might overshadow the subtlety or deftness involved in those movies .
When it comes to their movies : salman or aamir define their movie while for other smaller stars like floppu or haklia it’s their movies that define them , there’s a hell lot of difference between the 2 statements.
Now that people are appreciating superstardom along with the movie’s content I am sure that salman & aamir too would do the ‘baby’ or ‘Airlift’ kind of good patriotic movies in the near future and release it during the republic day or independence day periods, then we will all get to know the real difference between such movies having the namesake superstar called akki in them or the real reigning superstars like salman or aamir starring in them .
Having said all these, I will still stick to what I had been saying about Airlift all long , that this movie is a special one & shouldn’t be ‘quantified ‘ on basis of its collections , the movie would remain a great & classy movie irrespective of its collections , perhaps the only regret or the only issue I have with this movie is that I felt it should have had superstars like aamir or salman or hrithik or ajay D doing such great movie and not a clownish joker like akki doing it , anyway well done team Airlift for giving us such a great movie!
@??? ????? – Thanks man, I usually call this a bias of English media…To them Srk is always a multiplex face as he has done more films with Dharma and Yrf…It’s pity that there is sort of a class divide and usually aamir-srk who are considered to be more multiplex stars were always given more prominence by both print media and television. When in fact india also lives in small towns. Today masala genre is considered to be the biggest thanks to Salman who changed it. But I still remember how 90s and 20s the romcom boy was given more prominence just because he did some love stories and family dramas which usually appealed to then multiplex going Indian audience…I don’t have any problem with such movies per se and even like them but the second class treatment meted out to action movies and comedies was pathetic…To such people Here Pheri will never be a cult nor will Tere naam as they were more of single screen affairs…But a mildly performing movie like Kank in India was something really brilliant (which again was a big hit overseas but dull in India).
Same people will not be able to digest Akki doing a movie like Airlift as according to them he was supposed to do mindless comedies and masala movies. Same way when bb was pulled off my salman people were stunned as they usually call him superstar who can’t act. I know lot of akki and salman fans don’t look eye to eye and I admit that salman is bigger star at least since last 7 years but if we talk about media, they will anyday favour srk and aamir. This is called bias of English media – they will love everything that is acceptable in West but somehow it is sad that our choices are governed by English media rather than hindi belt. Somehow we feel people who like Dabang or Rowdy Rathore are not cool…but if a slick movie like Dhoom 3 comes out it will be loved…It’s high time people overcome their prejudices. If Kal Ho Na ho was great so was Tere Naam ! But srk fans won’t accept that.
Also, the funny part is suddenly the person who has always made movies for multiplexes is suddenly in a race to ape salman by doing his masala genre and that’s why he lags behind. Suddenly the WW figures floating around for dilwale is kinda funny when you know internally things are not good. Your lead actor-director are not happy, india collections were abysmally low for anyone in top 3. Quoting such WW numbers is of no use when your contemporaries are crossing 600 in WW. In fact, it bothers me and as it dawns to me that Srk’s movie has so far not even crossed Krrish 3 in India (although it might be over reported a bit), still if your superhero movies lag behind hrthik, your masala movies lag behind salman, then actually in which place are you winning in india…
All love to Salman as he is not insecure and even today mentions that if clash happens his sultan will lose out to Raees when he knows the situation is not same as it was 10 years back. Still he has the grace and magnamity to still go ahead and give number 1 status to srk. I also have to give it to Akshay that he never showed any tantrums, has always been a producers actor and has worked very hard to get compared to khans. The fact is at one point till 00s, he was compared to Suniel and the growth he shown in last 10-12 years is nothing but commendable that people have started calling him superstar and comparing him with Khans…I remember a time when govinda, ajay everyone were bigger name but akshay from a wooden actor is today the most versatile actor.
Its wondering to see how some people suddenly gone over the moon. Some are talking about Aamir underperformer and calling him media star. If they are talking about Talaash than I remind them none of Akshay 2015 releases having holiday advantage such as Baby,GiB,Brothers & SIB crossed 90cr, His post IPL Classy Holiday collected less than Aamir’s Ghajini which direct by same director back than in 2008. Even SPL 26 opened to 5 cr while without a superstar abcd collected around the same against special 26 that time. No doubt Akshay doing 4 films in a year but its not like that all his 4 films becoming hits. 2013- without hit
2014- Holiday while entertainment flop
2015- None were hit, baby was average. Sib & GiB semi hit, brothers flop.
His 2007 & 2012 is commendable year having 4 & 3 hits respectively while in 2016 he can also attain 3 hits. You guys can celebrate them but its baseless to compare with Aamir & Salman. Aamir films hardly appeals much to single screens like Talaash,pk etc when he does masala than Ghajini & d3 collected great in single screens. Look at Akshay Kumar none of Akshay films like Baby,Special26,Airlift collected even good in single screens. Genre will matter most for every actor in single screens. Akshay has only Rowdy Rathore which became blockbuster because of single screens business, all his other notable success in these years only because of multiplex audience. Stop trying to oversmart idiots. Akshay saying that festive releases booked by others and I have no option to release on non-festive. Who stop him to clash with them.
Breaking news: shark Khan come to our city Bhuj for movie shooting Rahis.
But people ignored him and all are Expecting that Akshay need to come Bhuj even Salman has to come back again to Bhuj and Ranveer Singh also.
I want to inform all: followed movie have been done in Bhuj .
Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam
Lagan
Refugee
Akshay Kumar thums up add
Ram Leela
Mohenjo Daro
Dharmesh sir (ABCD 2 ) and Kainat Arrora(grand masti, Khatta Mitha ) came to Bhuj.
Bhuj is a very well known as a historic place in world.
In
26th January 2001 approx 50,000 people were died.
And very well known as we have a White Rann of Kutch/ white desert, and border of Pakistan.
So I am requesting all readers of Indicine that please visit to Bhuj /Kutch
Because Kutch Nahi Dekha to Kucch Nahi Dekha. – said by Mr. Amitab Bachchan
Thanks
@NVS none other than Akshay Kumar could have given justice to a film like AIRLIFT. If AIRLIFT would have flopped haters like you would have barked on akki stardom for films failure no doubt and now when he’s hard work has paid off you haters are saying power of content and that other actor better collection shit.Lol on your little i.q . If they had guts they should have done films like AIRLIFT none is stopping them sick of haters logic now.
@Jay agree bro Salman Bhai is the biggest star today no doubt and many AK and SK fans I’ve seen like both of them but denying Akkis stardom is what pisses me off.Ormax media 2015 also showed Salman and Akshay to be most popular actors.Salman has never shied away from praising akki we all know so respect him
@truth_chk bro completely agree with your thoughts.
@Romance KING – Dilwale can’t be low budget as compared to Bang Bang…It is a multi starrer and I am sure Rohit Shetty himself has started charging 7 crores+ for every assignment (I am not sure Bang Bang director will be getting paid even half of RS). I am sure Varun also charges 2-3 crores per movie….
No way Dilwale budget is lesser than Bang Bang. Plus Bang Bang was not released during Xmas…Although competition was there 2 open weeks is crazy !!!
The point is Indian distributors lost money..WW is stupendous but the movie can’t be called hit in india if people lost money…How can a losing proposition be termed even a semi hit ? They can argue that a movie that crossed 140 can’t be termed flop but this is business after all. if you put money then you need to make profit…So a 20 crore movie with 5 crores as budget will still be hit…Sorry no one agrees that Dilwale is hit in India
@Sky – Aamir is not a media star. No one can be just a media star, he is extremely popular but what I mean is media has been biased towards SRK and Aamir while they generally neglect Salman, Akshay and other stars.
Anyday, Aamir was a bigger star than Sunny but just look at the article :
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/success-of-lagaan-and-gadar-shook-up-bollywood-stagnating-with-feel-good-formulas/1/231828.html
It talks about both movies in the title but then in the body suddenly all praises have been heaped on lagaan. In fact, I enjoyed lagan but a movie made on budget of 25 crores collecting just above 30 was not a blockbuster. It was a hit, a moderate one. On the other hand no one from media before the release was even talking about Gadar. This is not one instance but I can post many such articles. People like Anupama chopra will anyday favour srk, aamir but they will ridicule a dabang or rowdy rathore or even a housefull…that’s how media plays with people mind…if you show upper class or extremely rich family such as in k3g, media will heap praise on it but someone playing a cop in singham will be termed as over the top…That’s how srk got the English media attention way back in 90s and 00s by doing overseas friendly movies…on the other hand such was the bias that a villager role played by aamir is termed classic while someone like Sunny if he does it its looked down upon…
@Truth Check, I am partially agree with you but in case of Lagaan, it deserves all the media attention.
1. Even before release Aamir planned a brilliant marketing strategy for the movie and that time in 2001 no one can expect this kind of movie from an actor who also producing it. other reason was Bhuj got destroyed because of earthquake 5 month before movie release and lagaan got attention.
2. Print media and advertising write those things which caters to their target readers, no one in villages buy Filmfare or Bollywood related magazines and city based audience are appealed to classic more.
3. Lagaan Oscar entry was the biggest reason after it release that it got huge attention again in media which was rare for Bollywood film.
4. Media only not ridiculed Singham or Dabangg, they panned Happy new year and dilwale as well. See how much attention bajirao Mastani got because being a different than regular potboilers.
5. Back in 2001 Sunny Dell was a bigger star than Aamir without a doubt so at that time how can Aamir got special attention in media over Sunny deol. Kindly note it was same media who write off Aamir when Mangal Pandey rejected by audience.
6. Aamir never achieved much hoopla in media even now, Media today is speaking more about Salman back to back blockbusters and Srk overseas success more than Aamir 4 all time grossers record which is more worthy than rest of two. Gadar didn’t got much limelight then but that created huge media attention when Sunny released The hero-love story of a spy directed by Gadar’s director in 2003.
@Truth Check you idiot, sadakchaap lallu fan, jai ho had masala genre, remake, republic holiday release and much wider screens than talaash. talaash had non commercial genre still crossed 93 cr and it released in 2012. if talaash had lallu in it then it would have badly tanked at the box office. lallu is nothing in front of india’s biggest megastar aamir khan whose name is enough to shatter all records. let lallu do talaash then i will see his real stardom. aamir is infinite times bigger star than salman. dangal will take much bigger opening than loltan and cross pk’s record. only aamir himself can break his own records. salman can give big hits only with osuth remakes, masala genre and big solo festive releases. so better shut your mouth you moron lallu fan. lallu’s aukaat is nothing in front of global megastar aamir khan.
Lallu’s idiotic fans are calling him honest and bla bla bla. lol. the guy who has beaten women, never respected women, killed black bucks, ran can over poor people slipping on footpath, blackmailed and harassed his girlfriend should be never respected. he is the worst actor and worst person. aamir is still much better than him. aamir is also much bigger star than fake, nautanki salman who has given highest flops and disasters and his flop ratio is much bigger than his hit ratio. aamir is much bigger star and much better person than him. salman can never achieve even 1/100th of what global megastar aamir khan has achieved.