A comment that deserved to be converted into an article was posted by a reader (Saksham Duggal) in the Indicine comments section. He lists out the Top 3 highest grossers of each month along with the name of the actor who headed the star-cast.
We have added our own points including the biggest releases of each month in 2015.
January: It will be interesting to see if Akshay Kumar’s Baby can beat Agneepath this year.
- Agneepath (121 cr) - Hrithik Roshan
- Jai Ho (112 cr) - Salman Khan
- Race 2 (101 cr) - Saif Ali Khan and John Abraham
February: There are two big releases in the month of February – Roy starring Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Jacqueline Fernandez and Varun Dhawan’s Badlapur.
- Gunday (78 cr) - Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor
- My Name Is Khan (73 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Special 26 (69 cr) – Akshay Kumar
March: A month during which female-centric films have dominated. The target for March releases this year is just 63 crore. Emraan Hashmi’s Tigers and Yash Raj Films’ Bank Chor are the biggest releases of the month.
- Race (63 cr) – Saif Ali Khan
- Queen (62 cr) – Kangana Ranaut
- Kahaani (59 cr) – Vidya Balan
April: The month of April 2015 has quite a few big releases – Akshay Kumar’s Gabbar, Detective Byomkesh Baksh, Mr X and Piku. Which film can break the record of Housefull 2?
- Housefull 2 (116 cr) - Akshay Kumar and John Abraham
- 2 States (102 cr) – Arjun Kapoor
- Aashiqui 2 (81 cr) – Aditya Roy Kapoor
May: Ranbir Kapoor will be competing with himself this year. Bombay Velvet will challenge the record of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani which releases soon after the IPL, a couple of years ago. The other big release is Welcome Back.
- Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (189 cr) – Ranbir Kapoor
- Shootout at Wadala (62 cr) – John Abraham
- Fanaa (53 cr) – Aamir Khan
June: Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, Emraan Hashmi and Mohit Suri’s Hamari Adhuri Kahani and ABCD 2 starring Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor are the big releases of the month.
- Rowdy Rathore (134 cr) – Akshay Kumar
- Ready (121 cr) – Salman Khan
- Holiday (113 cr) – Akshay Kumar
July: Salman vs Salman. His Eid release ‘Bhajrangi Bhaijaan’ will challenge his last year’s release Kick for the highest grosser of the month. There is another big release – Dharma Productions’ Brothers starring Akshay and Sidharth Malhotra.
- Kick (233 cr) – Salman Khan
- Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (106 cr) – Farhan Akhtar
- Bol Bachchan (102 cr) – Ajay Devgn
August: Shahrukh will be competing with himself, although this year it would be a non-festive release. His much-awaited film FAN will release on August 14 during the Independence Day weekend. The other big release is Kabir Khan’s Phantom starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif – a film that he started before Bhajrangi Bhaijaan!
- Chennai Express (227 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Ek Tha Tiger (199 cr) - Salman Khan
- Bodyguard (145 cr) – Salman Khan
September: Only Shandaar and Katti Batti are scheduled to release in September. More films are expected to be announced soon.
- Dabangg (140 cr) - Salman
- Barfi! (106 cr) – Ranbir Kapoor
- Grand Masti (100 cr) – Ritesh Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi
October: Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva’s Singh Is Bling releases on Gandhi Jayanti. There are also reports that UTV might release Ranbir’s Jagga Jasoos. The target will be SRK’s Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year (204 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Bang Bang (181 cr) - Hrithik Roshan
- Ra.One (125 cr) – Shahrukh Khan
November: Salman Khan’s Prem Ratan Dhan Payo will be up against Hrithik’s Krrish 3. Since there are 10 more months to go for November, more films will be announced. However, PRDP will be the biggest release of the month.
- Krrish 3 (244 cr) – Hrithik Roshan
- Jab Tak Hai Jaan (120 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Ram Leela (116 cr) – Ranveer Singh
December: The Christmas weekend has been dominated by Aamir Khan over the years. Stars like Akshay Kumar (Tees Maar Khan), Shahrukh Khan (Don 2) and Salman Khan (Dabangg 2) have tried their luck, but Aamir is in a league of his own in December. Unfortunately, he has no Christmas release this year. But there are rumours that Rohit Shetty will release a film starring Shahrukh Khan. The last time they came together, they delivered the biggest grosser of all time.
- PK (340 cr) – Aamir Khan
- Dhoom 3 (285 cr) – Aamir Khan
- 3 Idiots (202 cr) – Aamir Khan
Final Analysis
- Jan – Hrithik Roshan
- Feb – Ranveer and Arjun
- Mar – Saif Ali Khan
- Apr – Akshay Kumar
- May – Ranbir Kapoor
- Jun – Akshay Kumar
- Jul – Salman Khan
- Aug – Shahrukh Khan
- Sep – Salman Khan
- Oct – Shahrukh Khan
- Nov – Hrithik Roshan
- Dec – Aamir Khan
Salman, SRK, Akshay and Hrithik have two highest grossers of the month. Ranbir, Aamir, Ranveer, Arjun and Saif have one each.
Credit: Saksham Duggal
@Gj007, thanks for sharing with us this beautiful article but I don’t agree with you for one thing.
What exactly do you mean when you said that ..”his first movie was expected to sink with out a trace because of it’s mainly unknown cast…”
Man,MBBS has strong cast…Lead actor Sanjay Dutt, he might not be going through a good phase of his career but he was a superstar at that time so no need for introduction.. Arshad Warsi was not big star at that time but his Hero Hindustan was one the best movies in late 90’s)
Gracy Singh was the peak of her career and she was one the best leading actress of B’town. she was ridding high on the success of Gangaajal and Lagaan. Jimmy Shergill was not that bad, he was like Sidarth Malhotra of that time…So you can’t say MBBS has unknown cast.
Our resident agony aunt n prodigy of Rajeev Masand aswell as acting as a body double for Anupama Chopra- Nipun Kumar is very adamant that he is a sensible user…. Lets give him the benefit of doubt and agree to disagree with him but what are his opinions about other jaadoo fans like ‘jilu’, ‘nkp’ and ‘taylor swift’…? Does he think they are sensible users too…
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Akshaykumar is the king of non holiday release..proud of him
@saksham great work…keep it up
Seen good work by a reader of indicine…first i wonder indicine deed that ???? one of best work by saksham…seen some comments and analysis of yrf-dharma and khanwar also…appeiciate that work
Wow Akki sir also have 2 highest months April and June, i hope that January will become also the Akki’s highest month then Akki sir will have 3 highest months in the year.
Eagerly Waiting for Ba By only 7 days remaining for first dhamaka of the year . . . C0mE 0n Ba By . . .
@Indicine, so many off-topic but funny and reading for entertainment. Please don’t mind it.
@indicine, there is news that Jagga jasoos postponed to next year. Is it true?
@trust me whoever u r ,thank u for giving the 2nd part of the fictional story about me and arjun.it was highly entertaining,engrossing and makes for a satisfying read.but I think the script needs a bit of fine tuning after that it can b made into an awesome film.
@trust me I hv just now forwarded ur story to kanti shah and he has agreed to make into a film.
congrats @trust me ur carrer in c grade industry is now set.keep it up
Good work Saksham and Indicine! 2nd half of the year has always been more fruitful for Bollywood because major holidays and festivals fall during that period, also most of school students do not go to theater from January to April because of their exams.
Hoping Baby would be able to take over Agneepath and Shivay takes over Baby in 2016.
Aamir Khan would have ruled more months had he released his movies outside of December (Christmas).
@suchit:: so you are taking revenge of 3yrs back! I can present u lots of aticles where aamir fans have also bashed akki in 3 yrs..fan wars keep going,but currently u are proving to ignite this fan war on any article even though there is’nt a single comment against u..
I am on twitter and there akkians or hrithikians never indulge in any wars with aamir fans..SRk-sallu,srk-aamir,HR-sallu fans keep fighting…
@some buddha mulherjee
No doubt about it that Kanti Shah will need a C grade ugly looking hero to play the lead so expect to see Arjun in the lead…!
@trust me wah re wah,u just now compared jimmy shergil with sidharth malhotra!!!
hats off to ur intellectuality.@gaurav is already writing a script for mohit suri but u should definitely start writing scripts for kanti shah
@Babaji: we won’t become senseless if these 2-3 bhojpuris like uncle and bandar put us in that list. Ignore them.
I m back guys
absolutely love it what a song
love to see together akki, ajay, hrithik, Big b…nice video
I saw yesterday comments were @nipun and babaji
talking that we r most sensible HR fans then I lost my
cool and I m writing here again. bcoz I just read
peoples comment daily but I never comment here.
yesterday @nipun and babaji said that we r most
sensible hr fan. really?? it just like our srk calling
himself that I’m king of Bollywood. so is he really king
of Bollywood?
both of u r most Salman khan hater and @babaji how
can u dare to say that sallu community don’t have a
single sensible fan..
is this ur sensible thinking…it’s called cheap thinking.
Ur underestimating sallu fans @babaji..
sallu fans are the aam janta the mango people..
grow up guys grow up both of u.
forget that actually @indicine I feel good to comment
here again.
love u guys love @indicine team..love sallu, aamir, akki,
ajay, hrithik..
Malala Yousafzai, Aamir Khan, Bill Gates write to world leaders on climate change, poverty and inequality
Aamir Khan is international star who has been known in every where in whole world, while SRK is only known in few places in east only looool
January baby record todegi
@Babaji ok I will not write any thing against akki, unless someone starts. Let’s make a deal. Forget about the past. But if someone provokes me I will start. That’s the deal.
@indicine, is there any wrong content in my 3:12pm, 4:47pm comments??? Why are you not posting them?
nice article.
great work saksham
Hahaha. Aamir bhai dominate December
@Babaji go to http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/top-5-highest-grossing-bollywood-movies-2000-2014/ and go the the first page and tell me who wrote the comment ” This article proves how hrithik and akshay dominated aamir and salman before 2008??? and then tell me who started it??? don’t try to make fool of me and don’t pretend to be the part of your user ID i.e. Babaji. as you are not any saint either.
AND Also go to the very old indicine article which was way back in july
http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/akshay-kumar-in-rowdy-rathore-2/ where you started it all over by saying aamir has no film after PK. I wasn’t even akki hater at that time or even before. even not now, but some pretentious moron haters like you who pretend to be so called saint and use the ID like Babaji ka thullu doesn’t make you a saint. so better take care of your self and judge your self first before judging and supervising me.
@King of Overacting. agreed. srk’s movies do well only in some European countries, but aamir’s movies do record breaking businesses across the globe everywhere like USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, China, Japan, Philippines, turkey, etc etc. also aamir has 3 movies which did more than 25 million USD, while srk has none. shame.
@Suchit:I am not calling myself as saint..When did I called myself as sensible user..Did I?
Agree that I started on RR 2 article but whats wrong when I said Hrithik and akki dominated aamir and sallu before 2008??
Sallu was struggling badly giving flops after flops like yuvvraj,marigold,heroes,god tussi great ho..Akki had a fantastic 2007 with 3 hits and a blockbuster..In 2006 he had a hit in Garam masala,a flop in jaaneman and superHit Phir Hera pheri..
HR had hit Jodha akbar in 2008,Krrish and Dhoom 2 blockbusters in 2006..
Yes,Aamir was definitely in the race but salman was far behind!!
See this: http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/top-5-actors-in-bollywood-box-office-battle/
That was just an opinion!! It was’nt a hatred comment towards aamir that you react so harshly…
@babaji, in which world u find hereos is a bhai movie??? In that way my friend ganesha3, luck by chance, krazzy4 and many more are hrithik films….and if i add 60cr club actor’s list then the page wil b shorted.
The resident critique, ur comment hav showed again how sensible are u!!!
Last few days i concentrated more on king over greek god. Even in this article i replied to u and @babaji in sensible manner….but unfortunately u r not able to understand Pyar Ka Bhasha…so from now i will answer u in earlier ways which u understand better…
nice statistics indicine……the record of August and december will definitely be shattered by king khan ….
@Suchit, U know one thing in USA people watch and enjoy bollywood movies which are against Indian system.RDB(Against Law and Order),3I(Against education),PK(Against god worship).But u see when movies in favour of India like Gadar,BORDER,CDI,HNY and MNIK(Against USA) we know what their BO status in USA.