Top 10 Highest Overseas Weekend Grossers of 2013

Dhoom 3 has not just beaten, but decimated every single record in the overseas markets. The film has collected $3.3 million more than Chennai Express in 3 days. In fact, the weekend total of Dhoom 3 is better than the *combined* total of overseas Blockbusters like Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Ram Leela and Krrish 3.

This is not about a biggie breaking previous records by a small margin, but history in the making. Aamir Khan has set the benchmark so high, that it will be difficult for the 2014 releases to match (except Rajkumar Hirani’s P.K of course!)

  • 1. Dhoom 3 – $10.4 million (Rs 64.5 crore)
  • 2. Chennai Express – $7.1 million (Rs 44.75 crore) – $8.2 million including paid previews (Rs 50.8 cr)
  • 3. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani – $4 million (Rs 24.8 crore)
  • 4. Ram Leela – $3.9 million (Rs 24.1 crore)
  • 5. Krrish 3 – $3.85 million (Rs 23.8 crore)
  • 6. Race 2 – $3.1 million (Rs 19.2 crore)
  • 7. Besharam – $1.7 million (Rs 10.5 crore)
  • 8. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – $1.4 million (Rs 8.7 crore)
  • 9. Satyagraha – $1.3 million (Rs 8 crore)
  • 10. Special 26 – $1.25 million (Rs 7 crore)
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44 Comments

  • @INDICINE
    This is total bullshit. In one of your articles; at the time of RA.ONE you published that it collected 32.93 crores in its first weekend .Also JTHJ collected 21.5 crores in its first weekend.

  • Ticket prices are much higher and many more screens are also contributing factors. Here in Australia, each ticket is 6 dollers more and many cinemas are showing 1-2 more sessions a day. These are massive contributiong factors. Think about it..$6 more on a single ticket and each cinema holds on average 200-300. Thats approximately $1200-1800 more per session assuming both movies were packed out.

  • Its combination of amir & ‘DHOOM’ power not only amir khan, if any ‘GRADE-A’ hero play lead roll then definately achieve a blockbuster. DHOOM is undoubtly the biggest franchies of bollywood.

  • Set the fire on box office, that’s what aamir’s superstar dom.. Now don’t say about talaash that was boring movie eventhough did fair business.. Peoples want entertaining movie, content plus star power, srk’s CE did good business b’coz of the Eid holiday nd star power, dnt forgt abt billu barber, dulha milgaya Ra1, for salman’s proof Veer, Mr nd mrs. Khanna etc is disaster., so those who are saying aamir khan’s movie doing good business because of good content can shut their mouth hereafter.. Aamir khan is the big megastar in india and overseas..

  • I don’t think it was needed to add “(except Rajkumar Hirani’s P.K of course!)” in this article. Its not given that ‘P.K.’ will be bigger than other films releasing next year or even open as big as ‘Dhoom 3’. ‘Dhoom’ franchise has undoubtedly helped it collect huge all over along with Aamir of course, we shouldn’t forget that.

    We have ‘Happy New Year’ along with ‘P.K.’ and other films as well next year which could surpass its record (in overseas), as records are meant to be broken. However, ‘Dhoom 3’ has certainly set the benchmark so high for anyone in this industry.

    • @Rohit, very high expectations from P.K. Rajkumar Hirani films have a huge following in the overseas markets, plus the Aamir Khan factor. It will also get a HUGE release worldwide.

  • indicine why u are treating like this that only pk will broke the record.it is dhoom brand not Aamir. SRK has 3 times more BB and ATBB in overseas than Aamir and salman bhai. HNY will break this record. Moreover CE’s genre was not liked overseas. PK = half HNY.

  • Next Year – PK vs Kick in domestic market and PK vs HNY in international market, though Kick has also outside chance in the international market.

  • Biggest hit of 2008- Aamir
    Biggest hit of 2009- Aamir
    Biggest hit of 2010- Salman
    Biggest hit of 2011- Salman
    Biggest hit of 2012- Salman
    Biggest hit of 2013- Aamir
    3 Biggest hit of six years belong to both Aamir and Salman
    Both are the Ruling Duo of Bollywood
    Lets pray and hope that SRK-Saif work hard and come anywhere close to above two legends.

  • @Indicine don’t you think that SRK is the King of overseas and SRK is known as global superstar who has huge huge fan following in overseas………don’t you think HAPPY NEW YEAR will get a huge release worldwide than any movie in 2014???…….

  • PK will undoubtedly be massive. but so will HNY. The undisputed king of overseas for the last two decades has been SRK. In fact he’s the one who opened majority of the overseas markets and got to be the first star in india to enjoy ushc super stardom overseas. it’s thanks to SRk that any other stars movies do well overseas. People who don’t know Bollywood have heard of SRK…not Aamir or Salman. That being said… Aamir only recently started challenging him there and it’s a good stiff challenge. So SRK’s super stardom overseas is still in tact and it being his third release with the popular Farah Khan team (remember both MHN and OSO set overseas box office on fire when they released) will most probably break a lot of records.

  • Aamir broken all the record by big margin even before the festive season start,73cr in normal weekend all over with 700 overseas screen as i read hile ce had released on 750 screen on festvie season still we have seen so huge difference in collection,D3 collected almost 60% more than ce in overseas, is this only due to Dhoom power, no. here Aamir involvement is equivalent to D3 franchise.

    srk fans committing every where that no one can play negative character better than SRK, srk remaked DON which was a cult classic film of Big B along with Multi talented and one of the best director Farhan Akhtar, result it was a moderate success, some called it was hit some called it was average, neverthe less succesful and superhit in overseas, in 2011 Don 2 came highly promoted and was expecting to break 3I record, got postive reviews collected 106cr with 2 open weeks, and 11-12 million$ in overseas, result was a hit in India and blockbuster in overseas, but point ot be noted it was nowhere in the collection of SRK own MNIK forget 3I, so when srk being so popular both in India and overseas not able to create or make Don franchise popular than Dhoom, is this fault of Aamir.

    Hritik fans taking credit of Dhoom franchise success for his Idol Hritihik, but its surprising to see Hr was part of KMG,krissh and Krissh3, there was not a change of director or hero in the film but still it is not great franchise which it should be, as HR made the Dhoom successful on his own.
    so funny what interesting 3 non-popular actor Abhi,Uday & john started the Dhoom film with a debutant director Sanjay Gadhvi and made it complete hit by their own with limited promotion. then comes Dhoom2 which was conbributed well by Hrithik (result HR fan thinking Dhoom is nothing without him)
    the best thing of Dhoom3 supersuccess that it shwos Mirror to HR fans that Dhoom is YRF franchise and it success only due to them neither by john or HR alone.
    Aamir stardom given it historic start, but still i feel that whole credit of this success is mostly belong to John,Abhi & uday who given us super cool Dhoom.Bravo and kudos to them.

  • @jatinder stop making fool yourself, i think you are not aware 3I complete overshadowed KANK 10.5Million$ collection which was highest overseas grosser till 2009 before 3I, by 3I in less than 10 days, while you have to see srk last 4 releases is not good enough to surpass his own MNIK collection of 23million$ except CE who came close to 19million$, you can’t overtake Aamir’s involvement in D3 collections and i think srk fans and other don’t know most awaited film of 2014 is P.K., and don’t worry i will bet it will be highest overseas grosser of 2014, HNY can’t overtake this super strong Content expected from P.k., raju Hirnai is by far the best director of Idian cinema, any doubt?

  • You r not compltly right indicine Aamir is big factor than rajkumar hirani in evyrwhere bcz amir+ hirani is 100 time better thn hirani+ other eg:3i

  • @nipun Aamir hv been popular since lagaan release it was gone to oscar that time aamir bcm world popular & there is no comparison of hritik with Aamir bcz total overseas collection of K3 is lesser than D3’s 3 days collection t:i 73cr huge weekend collection of Bollywood mvi ever in overseas without any t.v promotion

  • Respected haters-Only Aamir can set new records like he did with “Ghajini”,”3 idiots” and now “Dhoom 3” and since “PK” is a record breaking combination of Aamir and Raju hirani it will be again expected that “PK” will break worldwide gross of “Dhoom 3” which may be 500+ crores bcoz “Dhoom 3” has already grossed 200+ crores in just 3 days.

  • Writer 1: OK, we need to write a
    new Dhoom movie. So much
    money to be made.
    Writer 2: What’s there to
    write?
    Writer 1: We signed Aamir. He
    likes to read scripts and stuff.
    Writer 2: But why?
    Writer 1: He is a thinking actor,
    yaar. He asks questions like:
    What’s my character’s
    backstory? What is the
    existential crisis he is going
    through? How is the film
    reflecting the socio economic
    politics of disparities in the
    world?
    Writer 2: (looks at DVD Writer 1: OK, we need to write a
    new Dhoom movie. So much
    money to be made.
    Writer 2: What’s there to
    write?
    Writer 1: We signed Aamir. He
    likes to read scripts and stuff.
    Writer 2: But why?
    Writer 1: He is a thinking actor,
    yaar. He asks questions like:
    What’s my character’s
    backstory? What is the
    existential crisis he is going
    through? How is the film
    reflecting the socio economic
    politics of disparities in the
    world?
    Writer 2: (looks at DVD of The
    Dark Knight lying around and
    scribbles for a minute) Okay, we
    begin with the backstory. Aamir
    could play Joker, I mean clown.
    Backstory is that he was part
    of the circus, his father dies
    unable to pay bank loans, so he
    robs banks. Banks are the
    villains of today. And we end a
    20-minute backstory with a
    great back shot of Aamir…
    Remember how he worked out
    for Ghajini since he couldn’t do
    much with the script? I can
    already see the teaser.
    Writer 1: Aamir is a thinking
    actor. We need more.
    Writer 2: (looks at the DVD shelf
    and The Prestige DVD is asking
    him: Are you watching closely?)
    Okay, Aamir plays a thinking
    clown. He can also do magic. In
    fact, I can make doubly sure he
    won’t turn this down. I’m writing
    him a role where he can be a
    thinking genius thief and the
    Taare Zameen Par kid at the
    same time.
    Writer 1: Krrish already has a
    grown up autistic kid in a man’s
    body.
    Writer 2: Doesn’t matter, boss. I
    saw this movie called Tropic
    Thunder. Ben Stiller plays Simple
    Jack in a movie within a movie.
    What superb acting. Every
    actor wants to be Rainman and
    Forrest Gump once in his life.
    Aamir is no exception.
    Writer 1: Fine… this just when
    Yash Raj Films is turning over a
    new leaf with good cinema!
    Okay, here’s an idea. Make it
    fully meta. Aamir should say
    what we believe in. We are
    clowns. We entertain. We make
    people believe that they are
    winning by laughing at us. But
    we have their money. At least
    the critics will understand our
    predicament then.
    Writer 2: Okay, boss. Ditto for
    Uday Chopra, I presume. He
    makes self- deprecatory jokes
    so that the audience likes him
    finally?
    Writer 1: We can only try. We
    have unleashed him upon them
    thrice now. We hope he has
    grown on them.
    Writer 2: Bas, enough
    characterisation. It’s a Dhoom
    movie, boss. Let’s talk about
    the bikes. We need to do
    something better than The
    Fast and the Furious.
    Something like Transformers?
    Picture this: Aamir is being
    chased on a bike, suddenly he’s
    trapped on a bridge… And as he
    dives off the bridge with his
    bike, the bike becomes a boat
    and then a submarine and then
    a boat again and then flies out
    of water and becomes a bike
    again.
    Writer 1: Why not make a boat
    turn into a plane and he flies
    off?
    Writer 2: Don’t be ridiculous,
    boss. Also, that’s more a Dhoom
    4 idea. Audience is not ready for
    it yet. Batman has done it; I
    don’t have the DVD now. But
    next film, I promise you, the
    thief will jump out of a building
    and become a plane.
    Writer 1: OK, let’s go. Time for
    meeting with Aamir.
    Writer 2: We haven’t written
    anything for Abhishek or
    Katrina yet.
    Writer 1: Have already briefed
    Vaibhavi on how to present
    Katrina. She said we can do a
    family friendly striptease for
    one song and a circus act for
    another, one romantic duet
    with Aamir and one Dhoom song
    for end credits.
    Writer 2: And Abhishek?
    Writer 1: No time for that… I’ll
    give him sunglasses.
    (It is learnt that Abhishek
    insisted on using all the fake
    moustaches and beards he had
    to add character)
    Later at the meeting:
    Aamir: So do I get caught by Jai
    and Ali? John and Hrithik
    preferred to leap to death if I
    remember right.
    Writer 1: What would you
    rather do?
    Aamir (thinks): Hmmm! (Looks
    at the cheque in hand) OK then,
    let’s Dhoom!
    Post Script: Not a page of
    script was written after this
    meeting.
    Genre: Action
    Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
    Cast: Aamir Khan, Abhishek
    Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Uday
    Chopra
    Storyline: Jai and Ali are called
    to investigate bank robberies in
    Chicago involving a circus clown
    Bottomline: A superlative spoof,
    so much to laugh at.of The
    Dark Knight lying around and
    scribbles for a minute) Okay, we
    begin with the backstory. Aamir
    could play Joker, I mean clown.
    Backstory is that he was part
    of the circus, his father dies
    unable to pay bank loans, so he
    robs banks. Banks are the
    villains of today. And we end a
    20-minute backstory with a
    great back shot of Aamir…
    Remember how he worked out
    for Ghajini since he couldn’t do
    much with the script? I can
    already see the teaser.
    Writer 1: Aamir is a thinking
    actor. We need more.
    Writer 2: (looks at the DVD shelf
    and The Prestige DVD is asking
    him: Are you watching closely?)
    Okay, Aamir plays a thinking
    clown. He can also do magic. In
    fact, I can make doubly sure he
    won’t turn this down. I’m writing
    him a role where he can be a
    thinking genius thief and the
    Taare Zameen Par kid at the
    same time.
    Writer 1: Krrish already has a
    grown up autistic kid in a man’s
    body.
    Writer 2: Doesn’t matter, boss. I
    saw this movie called Tropic
    Thunder. Ben Stiller plays Simple
    Jack in a movie within a movie.
    What superb acting. Every
    actor wants to be Rainman and
    Forrest Gump once in his life.
    Aamir is no exception.
    Writer 1: Fine… this just when
    Yash Raj Films is turning over a
    new leaf with good cinema!
    Okay, here’s an idea. Make it
    fully meta. Aamir should say
    what we believe in. We are
    clowns. We entertain. We make
    people believe that they are
    winning by laughing at us. But
    we have their money. At least
    the critics will understand our
    predicament then.
    Writer 2: Okay, boss. Ditto for
    Uday Chopra, I presume. He
    makes self- deprecatory jokes
    so that the audience likes him
    finally?
    Writer 1: We can only try. We
    have unleashed him upon them
    thrice now. We hope he has
    grown on them.
    Writer 2: Bas, enough
    characterisation. It’s a Dhoom
    movie, boss. Let’s talk about
    the bikes. We need to do
    something better than The
    Fast and the Furious.
    Something like Transformers?
    Picture this: Aamir is being
    chased on a bike, suddenly he’s
    trapped on a bridge… And as he
    dives off the bridge with his
    bike, the bike becomes a boat
    and then a submarine and then
    a boat again and then flies out
    of water and becomes a bike
    again.
    Writer 1: Why not make a boat
    turn into a plane and he flies
    off?
    Writer 2: Don’t be ridiculous,
    boss. Also, that’s more a Dhoom
    4 idea. Audience is not ready for
    it yet. Batman has done it; I
    don’t have the DVD now. But
    next film, I promise you, the
    thief will jump out of a building
    and become a plane.
    Writer 1: OK, let’s go. Time for
    meeting with Aamir.
    Writer 2: We haven’t written
    anything for Abhishek or
    Katrina yet.
    Writer 1: Have already briefed
    Vaibhavi on how to present
    Katrina. She said we can do a
    family friendly striptease for
    one song and a circus act for
    another, one romantic duet
    with Aamir and one Dhoom song
    for end credits.
    Writer 2: And Abhishek?
    Writer 1: No time for that… I’ll
    give him sunglasses.
    (It is learnt that Abhishek
    insisted on using all the fake
    moustaches and beards he had
    to add character)
    Later at the meeting:
    Aamir: So do I get caught by Jai
    and Ali? John and Hrithik
    preferred to leap to death if I
    remember right.
    Writer 1: What would you
    rather do?
    Aamir (thinks): Hmmm! (Looks
    at the cheque in hand) OK then,
    let’s Dhoom!
    Post Script: Not a page of
    script was written after this
    meeting.
    Genre: Action
    Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
    Cast: Aamir Khan, Abhishek
    Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Uday
    Chopra
    Storyline: Jai and Ali are called
    to investigate bank robberies in
    Chicago involving a circus clown
    Bottomline: A superlative spoof,
    so much to laugh at.

  • I am enjoying and loving it. Now for srk fans Indicine reporting has become fake, bull $hit. The same srk fans were praising Indicine during CE and now they cannot accept the truth and crying like babies. Indicine, good job for reporting the facts and truth !!!

    Srk fans, stop giving silly and lame excuses. I know it is hard for you guys to digest the truth but fact is fact. Srk is also a human and not a super power. He will score more with HNY. Have faith and learn to accept other actors success !!!!!!!

  • i am from iran and i love shahrukh and aamir very much and salman but honstly in iran peoples knows bollywood only beacouse of srk and big b . and now srk wide fon following in iran and there every one say bollywood peoples say srk . salman is no2 and aamir no3 hrithik no4. and i think in evry other cuntrys it will be same!

  • @IndicineTeam – I understand, expectations are too high from P.K. (biggest release of 2014 in India IMO) But, he has only directed 3 films (which were critical and commercial success), (one was Blockbuster, while other one was also successful in overseas, but neither of them broke initial records) and all of them were produced and distributed by (Vidhu) Vinod Chopra Films. P.K. is the first film which is being produced by Rajkumar himself and co-produced by Aamir and UTV. There’s no doubt that P.K. will be huge in India, they have picked a very interesting topic this time. I’m neither denying that it will be huge abroad as well because of Aamir’s grown popularity along with being a Rajkumar Hirani film, I’m just saying that beating Dhoom 3’s opening weekend record overseas will be equally tough for P.K. as other biggies especially HNY, just my opinion.
    Honestly, I don’t see any other film apart from those two beating Dhoom 3 abroad.
    But, I do see multiple films crossing 200 crore in domestic market like P.K. (strongest contender to do more than 300 crore), HNY, Kick, Bang Bang, Jai Ho and even Holiday and Singham 2 to some extent.

  • @yash where you got official figures, and if boi or indicine reported 10 cr more so still it be 63cr according to you, again historical. also saying that D3 collected 73cr.

    @wali you are noticing every favorable factor to bring down d3 success but you not even understand what Indicine said factors against d3, non holiday release,pre Cristmas season believe to be dull & post EID season which CE got was strong season for collection, plus D3 released on 700 screens while Ce released on 750screens, still it collected so big. and you are talking about ticket rates in overseas why were you remain silet at the time of CE release, at that time is ticket rates were unchanged.

    all srk fas forget when CE released 1dollar=67-68 RS that’s why CE overseas collection of 19 million$ is equals to Indian monetary is 124cr, if you consider 3I overseas collection in rs that 392-269gross of domestic=123cr ce, less than CE overseas in terms of dollars, because if film released in overseas we got money in terms of Dollar, so if you consider market value of 26million$ at that time than it will be 26million $*67=174.2cr that means 3I gross will equals to 269+174.2=443cr highest than ce 420cr ww official, do srk fans agree for the same, the business of any film will effected due to market condition and its acceptance whether a movie release on higher screens,ticket rates increase it happen for each big film but here srk fans are thinking that srk allowed fans to watch his film free of cost to his fans and YRF & Aamir are charging 1000rs from each.

  • @rohit agree with you, but i heard that p.k. is not financed by utv, its disney films corporation who buys its theatrical rights worldwide, so they should release film in overseas with good screen size.

  • @ aks FYI farhan akhtar first two films acc to boi dil chahta hai average and lakshya below avge while don and don 2 are HIT and Don 2 112 while Talash 93 in 2012 while MNIK 73 in 2010 and you know how much Talash did in overseas after 3I

  • boi making history as they saw higher collection then OF as they say confidently 70-75 while OF are 63…what to say BOI inflated for OVERSEAS? what a JOKER

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