The Lunchbox beats My Name Is Khan, enters Top 5 at US Box Office

2013’s most critically acclaimed film ‘The Lunchbox’ has emerged as the highest grossing Indian film at the US box office for films released in 2014. It has also made it to the Top 5 highest grossing Indian films of all time in the U.S. beating hugely successful films like Shahrukh Khan’s My Name Is Khan.

Grossing more than 4 million (and still counting), The Lunchbox is only behind films like Dhoom 3, Chennai Express and 3 Idiots.

Apart from the US, ‘The Lunchbox’ has recorded strong international collections, especially from European markets where it is still going strong in France, Germany, Sweden among other markets.

For its star cast and release size, The Lunchbox did very well in India too collecting around 28 crore net. The film was made on a budget of less than 10 crore.

Released in the US on February 28th, The Lunchbox has collected $4,064,041 (Rs 24.25 cr) so far.

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64 Comments

  • now tell me who started first srk fans or haters… when we start bashing your star then u will cry like idiots……..

  • @bulli out Amir khan’s talash is more commercial than lunch box with 2 glamorous diva backed by utv still later did more in USA. We can’t show our face to our friend salman fans who has already beaten by small khan’s chinnai express in India. Now 60 cr star is on course to beat our Bhai jai ho collection. Some of small stars already started to beating our Bhai with Ramleela

  • @vikram I was talking of star rankings.go and check anywhere and one more thing that my name is balwinder and bulli is my nickname so dont make fun of it otherwise I will cut yours

  • Lol!!! This is an Epic moment!!! Even a lesser known Irfan Khan too overtakes our King in his Arena!!! RIP Paglapurians..better worry about Crappy Players New Years reunion party!!! :P

  • @indicine… since lots of people are saying now dat Irfan Khan is a bigger star than SRK in oversea market as the lunch box earn more than MNIK … so do u really think irfan khan is a bigger star than srk in oversea market?????? must reply

  • @nipun, though the script was unrelastic, but the direction was really well.
    @sid-pirated, yess agree with you, but what about films like dg and talaash. you call srkians as paglapurians, then all of you aamirians are tingu purians. actually we have 3 types of loves, sorkh wala, sauz wala and ishq wala love, but according to aamir khan fans we have 4 types of loves(including tingu wala love). don’t use bad words even we can can use bad names.

  • congo to team PST, @romance and @sickrum we don’t be feel insecure that not many are aware about our king srk in USA, whatever people came to know him after he was detained by usa officials. While other needs holiday,big director, brand etc for collection in overseas. But our king needs KJO to cross his old created records there and our king failed every time with others example MNIK is still untouchable for our king. @romance Ghajini being a masala entertrainer collected 7.08 million in 2008 while RNBDJ collected 8.5 million their despite its was totally romantic film and having Srk-yrf-aditya pair after ddlj and mohabbatein while ghajini was solely riding on Aamir. and Rnbdj failed to cross KANK and Oso despite being better film than both and released later on wider scale @mithaiwala you forget another type love and that is mithaiwala in which srk open his arms and you fill his hand by giving him sweets.

  • @romance dhoom 3 gang already broken all existing record so which kind of record you talking about lol, you should say todenge taale hny wale not dhoom 3 wale, better you can say todenge record mithaiwale. Lol. Don’t worry you will come to notice on dec 19th what kind of brand Aamir-Raju is, but we all know for you Farha and Rohit are bigger director than Raju hirani so will wait for excuse like Raju is bigger than both when P.k. Outshine everyfilm of this year.

  • @Sky, i know that you will replay me by using these words, but the fact is that i don’t hate aamir, infact he is my 2nd fav and the actor i respect the most after srk, but look at his comment is it really necessory to call paglapurians, and i also like @sid-orignal, but this one wasn’t necessory.

  • @Sky, kjo also have other release, i mean stoy and bomby talkies, what were the collection of those movies.@sky, rbdj was less promoted film, non-holiday release and also the film release after mumbai attacks, which affects on it’s collection and about aditya, no one even knows him(except being known as the director of ddlj, mohabbatein and rbdj). i don’t know why but you always say yrf, because people don’t watch Films for production houses(even for such a crap production house), but for actors and entertainment(but sometimes watch those films for entertaining directors) lol! are you trying to say that some people have watched rbdj for yrf, i mean just check the comments in imdb and tell me how many of them have watched that film for yrf, even ask any of your friends or the users of indicine.

  • Karma !!!!!!! Srk fans ranting Akki beats Salman Jai Ho even without Holiday crossing JH total. n in overseas Irfaan has already defeated their king. Forget Aamir, Srk is puny to Irfaan now !!!!!!!!

  • Ritesh Batra’s much-loved directorial debut ‘The Lunchbox’continues to eat away at the American ticket counters. The film starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur, has received a great response and has found its place in the US list of Top 5 highest grossing Indian movies of all time.

    ‘The Lunchbox’ has garnered huge collections in the US in comparison with films like ‘My Name Is Khan’, ‘Chennai Express’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Dhoom 3’. However, ‘Monsoon Wedding’ still continues to be on the top of the charts.

    This performance by ‘The Lunchbox’ not only is a big victory for the sustained efforts put in by the film’s producer Guneet Monga of Sikhya Entertainment. Talking about this, Guneet said, “We have seen in the past that while some of the festival favourites get great reviews, they don’t do that well at the theatres. But ‘The Lunchbox’ has been a great commercial success and the new benchmark for all of us going forward.”

  • tingu purians.. lol..
    come on idiots dont cry, ur negetivity and dislikes are not enough to disgrace king khan..
    yes as of today aamir is ahead of srk ( in numbers ) so what….
    fact is that srk did when no one even dream of doing… srk is king of overseas…
    and acc. to ur theory arjun and ranveer are bigger stars than amitabh in overseas

  • But didn’t the haters noticed that CE is still ahead of TLB…..I think either they overlooked or ignored.

  • Thus proved irrfan khan is the baap of the overrated khan trio. Lol irrfan’s non commercial film collecting more than commercial films of khans. Ofcourse western people don’t like craps like ce,d3,ett. Khan trio is nothing. Irrfan rules worldwide box office with life of pi,the amazing spiderman 2, mission impossible ghost protocol.

  • @Sky, looks like vickrum is not sickrum, but your sick-y, lol!, It is the lunch box, not pst.

  • hahaha its funny how lallu and tingu fans have tag team partnership……………………salman has no top 5 grossers in USA and is nothing oversees compared to SRK, so they side with tingu who has two highest grossers oversees due to a great movie and a huge franchise, they cant even see that CE is still ahead of TLB, and they are so blind they cant see that TLB is far ahead of any of our holy bhaijann’s movies as he is a loser in oversees (generally)…………………………..anytime someone does well in India or oversees he is automatically compared to SRK who has consistently performed well both in India and Oversees, so u haterz CE is still ahead of TLB so Irfan Khan is NOT better than SRK in oversees, however he is much better than our holy bhaijan by far as TLB is ahead of lallu’s movies in USA…………………………………….

  • @Romance true man..dhoom3 wala hero aur 3I ka director aayenge is baar record todne!!! Cheers :P

    @Mithaiwala: as i told before i have issues only with certain fans of SRK here and not SRK..as i said before in other articles, i respect every actors work..but with respect to SRK, his own set of idiotic fans are enough to bash him more than the anti srk folks..some idiots like @sss, @Tri-in-one, @lauki, @Romance etc etc are enough to screw things..so as i told before i would pefer people to respect every actors work, as the industry thrives on team work!! Thank You!!! :)

  • @sky the main fact is ghajni release during christmas n rnbdj released non holiday still rnbdj is more successful than ghajni in overseae. Kank is better film than rnbdj thats why kank was atbb n record grosser. My last word Kjo soty failed to beat mnik 1st day record in its lifetime, oversease people wait for srk film not kjo film otherwise hritic starer agneepath become successful like ce in oversease

  • All srk fans, Now you all happy with above artical…., srk movie all is ATBB now you all happy……., keep dreaming…….

  • @Triniman : By counting Salman’s BB in overseas will not change the fact that Irfaan beats Srk MNIK without any Airport controversary !!!!!!!!!!

  • @Romance : you surely belongs to overseas better go n stay there. KANK was a moral less movie compare to RNBDJ, which had a laughable story !!!!!!! But RNBDJ is far better than KANK. It was a BB in overseas as extra marital affairs & divorces are routine for them unlike in India !!!!!!!!!!

  • @hrithik yeh and it will not change the fact that lallu is a supreme loser in oversees and a loser in india from 2000-2009, and oh yeh MNIK released 4 bloody years ago, u cant compare a movie released in 2014 with 2010, havent u heard of inflation? More Screen counts? !!!!!!!! It wud be foolish to compare the collection of Housefull 1(2010, 72 crore)) with say Jai Ho (2014,112 core)and say Jai Ho is better as it made more money, u have to inflate and normalize Housefull collection to a 2014 price and then compare both u moron!

    And yeh Irfan is still below SRK as CE is still ahead of TLB, however TLB has far surpassed any of ur bhai releases in US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @hritik srk have 2nd max blockbuster in india after salman n max no of hits n success ratio than any actor in the history of bollywood thats why srk is the king of bollywood. Every srk film get earthshelter opening in west begle so i’m happy staying in kolkata.

  • Aamir and Irfan has give credibility to Indian films abroad.

    Their movies are not watched by mere nri fans but true international cinema enthusiasts.

    hence they are truly global stars.

    hats off to you guys for achieving this. Keep it up.

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