2016 has been a good year so far. Airlift topped January, Neerja became the 2nd highest grosser of February, Kapoor & Sons topped March and FAN became the 3rd highest grosser of April. May has been a poor month, but all eyes are now on Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 3 and Salman Khan’s Sultan.
Salman could (actually, should) achieve a record that only belongs to Aamir Khan so far. More on that below.
Movies that have topped each month this year have been highlighted in blue colour.
January: Airlift became the highest grosser of January, beating the collections of Agneepath and Jai Ho.
- Airlift (128 cr) – Akshay Kumar
- Agneepath (122 cr) - Hrithik Roshan
- Jai Ho (112 cr) - Salman Khan
February: Ghayal Once Again, Sanam Re and Fitoor all failed at the box office, but Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja not only went on to become the 2nd highest grosser of the year, but has also become the 2nd highest February grosser of all time.
- Gunday (78 cr) - Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor
- Neerja (76 cr) – Sonam Kapoor
- My Name Is Khan (73 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
March: Kapoor & Sons has become the highest grosser of March, by grossing 75 crore at the domestic box office. Vidya Balan’s Kahaani, which was previously the 3rd highest grosser of the month, is out of the list.
- Kapoor & Sons (75 cr) – Sidharth Malhotra
- Race (63 cr) – Saif Ali Khan
- Queen (62 cr) – Kangana Ranaut
April: Shah Rukh Khan’s FAN was expected to become the highest ever grosser for the month of April, but it wasn’t to be as the film finished below the 100 crore mark. FAN (85 cr) replaces Aashiqui 2 (81 crore) as the 3rd highest grosser of April.
- Housefull 2 (116 cr) - Akshay Kumar and John Abraham
- 2 States (102 cr) – Arjun Kapoor
- FAN (85 cr) - Shah Rukh Khan
May: Last year, Tanu Weds Manu Returns did the unthinkable by grossing Rs 151 crore at the domestic box office and Akshay Kumar’s Gabbar Is Back took the third spot. This year has been poor though. Azhar has failed and Sarbjit will be an average 25-30 crore grosser at best. No changes to the Top 3 for the first time this year.
- Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (189 cr) – Ranbir Kapoor
- Tanu Weds Manu Returns (151 cr) – Kangana Ranaut
- Gabbar Is Back (87 cr) – Akshay Kumar
June: All eyes will now be on Housefull 3 as Akshay Kumar targets his own film – Rowdy Rathore – which also happens to be his biggest grosser of all time. Interestingly, Akshay has been very successful during the ‘Post IPL’ period – which has given him his 1st and 3rd highest grossers. If Housefull 3 turns out to be a entertaining comedy film, it could top the month of June.
- Rowdy Rathore (134 cr) – Akshay Kumar
- Ready (121 cr) – Salman Khan
- Holiday (113 cr) – Akshay Kumar
July: It was expected to be a battle between Salman and Shah Rukh this year, but it wasn’t to be as Raees backed out of the Eid clash. It’s going to be Salman vs Salman for both the 1st and 2nd spot. If Sultan collects more than 116 crore (which it should achieve quite easily in about 4-5 days), then the entire month of July will belong to Salman. No other actor apart from Aamir Khan (December) has dominated an entire month, so that’ll be yet another record that Aamir created and Salman matched.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is currently the top grosser, followed by Kick. It’ll be interesting to see where Sultan finishes. Topping Bajrangi Bhaijaan is going to be difficult, but achievable. All eyes will be on the initial, because if that’s earth-shattering like ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ or ‘Bodyguard’ then it would mean 200 crore would be a cakewalk, even if the reports are mixed.
Amidst the hype around Sultan, two films that are undoubtedly big films are ‘Great Grand Masti’ and ‘Dishoom’. Both in the month of July, but highly unlikely to make it to the Top 3.
- Bajrangi Bhaijaan (321 cr) – Salman Khan
- Kick (233 cr) – Salman Khan
- Baahubali (116 cr) - Prabhas, Rana Daggubati
August: Brothers failed last year, but 2016 marks the return of Hrithik Roshan in Mohenjo Daro, which is set to clash against Akshay’s third release of 2016 – Rustom. We also have Tiger Shroff’s ‘A Flying Jatt’ lined up for release. Currently, it’s all Salman and SRK for August. If Mohenjo Daro clicks, it could potentially take the top spot, otherwise even an entry into the Top 3 might be difficult because of the clash.
- Chennai Express (227 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Ek Tha Tiger (199 cr) - Salman Khan
- Bodyguard (145 cr) – Salman Khan
September: MS Dhoni biopic, Baar Baar Dekho and Rangoon are the big releases of September. The target will be crossing the 100 crore mark to beat Grand Masti.
- Dabangg (140 cr) - Salman
- Barfi! (106 cr) – Ranbir Kapoor
- Grand Masti (100 cr) – Ritesh Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi
October: The month of Diwali has biggies in the form of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Shivaay. There is Mirziya too, which is a big-budget film that has the potential to do well. The target will be SRK’s Ra One / Happy New Year and Hrithik’s Bang Bang.
- Happy New Year (204 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
- Bang Bang (181 cr) - Hrithik Roshan
- Ra.One (125 cr) – Shahrukh Khan
November: It’ll be a month of sequels – Rock On 2, Kahaani 2, Force 2 and Tum Bin 2 – in that order are the biggest releases of the month.
- Krrish 3 (244 cr) – Hrithik Roshan
- Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (213 cr) – Salman Khan
- Jab Tak Hai Jaan (120 cr) - Shahrukh Khan
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. Shah Rukh tried his luck once again, but failed with Dilwale. Ranveer’s Bajirao Mastani did much better, but failed to beat 3 Idiots. It’ll be Aamir vs Aamir once again this year, as he would be targeting the record of Dhoom 3 at the very least. But if there is one man in the industry, who you would place your bet on beating the total of PK, it would be Aamir himself. Strong content, of course, will be the key.
- PK (340 cr) – Aamir Khan
- Dhoom 3 (285 cr) – Aamir Khan
- 3 Idiots (202 cr) – Aamir Khan
Final Analysis
- January - Akshay Kumar
- February – Ranveer and Arjun
- March - Sidharth Malhotra
- April – Akshay Kumar
- May – Ranbir Kapoor
- June – Akshay Kumar
- July – Salman Khan
- August – Shah Rukh Khan
- September – Salman Khan
- Octctober – Shah Rukh Khan
- November – Hrithik Roshan
- December – Aamir Khan
Akshay has three highest grossers of the month, Salman and SRK have two highest grossers of the month. Ranbir, Aamir, Ranveer, Arjun and Sidharth have one each. Aamir is the only actor (currently) to dominate the entire month of December.
Article idea and Credit: Saksham Duggal
Hum hain seedhay saadhay
Akshay Akshay
Hum hain Khans/Hrithik kai samnay
Bachay Bachay
Kyun kai hum nai 150 crore cross hain
Karnay karnay????
Akki fans MARK MY WORDS this year akki will again fail to cross 150 crore. AGAIN
Mohenjo daro, dangal, sultan all will cross 150 crore but blousefull 3 and custom both will fail.
@ sunny leone @ harbhajan @ babaji ka ullu anyone dare and have balls to take a bet on it.
vera @12:06 1 correction you had written k3(244) instead of mirror
That akward moment for akshay Kumar haters when they realise that ak has 3 highest grosser with non festival periods
Ha ha ha, even arjun kapoor is much bigger star than queen kong on non festive. Global Queen couldnt even cross 2012 talaash and on april so called global king on no.3? Sharm se doob marne waali baat for haklu fans.
@Saksham you better not judge what’s easy for Aamir or not. His all movies on Christmas have been ATHG since ghajini and he is the only one in the industry who breaks his own record. So better dont be too much Alok Nath kind of character. I have been noticing your crappy concern about aamir’s dangal anf weather it will be affected by sultan or not and his intolerance remarks or not. Dont worry too much about aamir. Wait and watch. Dangal will easily beat PK because aamir movie on christmas means ATHG. Thats my open challange. Next time i wont see your rubbish concern about dangal. Take care.
@Ishan Gulati you missed Delhi Belli. It was also super hit.
@Ajay indicine have said akshay wasn’t a big boxoffice star in 90s nd we accept it so don’t bring 90s list here, nd what is 8 years ?? R u stupid? Take one decade movie verdicts knucklehead! I am talking about 2000 where things matters the most .
I still remember few days ago @AISHA said 2000 was ruled by Akshay followed by srk hrithik ajay ,just focus on ajay :-P by giving 1 hit he ruled 2000s ?
I have never seen any person as big moron as @Sunny akkiholic. His whole life is devoted behind ajay. He really is so much obsessed with ajay that even ajay’s own family is also not so concerend or worried about him. According to this morin ajay had obly 1 hit in a decade. Because according to him it was gobar who acted in golmaal 1, all the best, atithi tum kab jaoge, company, omcara, etc. Get well soon babe. Can i list the number of flops gobar kumar has given? Even indicine forum would be too short to include enough space fot his flops list.
I have never seen any person as big moron as @Sunny akkiholic. His whole life is devoted behind ajay. He really is so much obsessed with ajay that even ajay’s own family is also not as concerend or worried about Ajay as @sunny is. According to this moron ajay had only 1 hit in a decade. Because according to him it was gobar who acted in golmaal 1, all the best, atithi tum kab jaoge, company, Omkara, Kaal, Zameen, LOC, etc. Get well soon babe. Can i list the number of flops gobar kumar has given? Even indicine forum would be too short to include enough space fot his flops list.
Housefull 3
the storm is near
it just need a +ve WOM
and the countdown starts
1st day-22cr(if +ve WOM)
2ND-24cr
3rd-27cr
70+cr weekend
lifetime -175-180cr
@ Dijen Divetya at 3:30 am : Will agree with you there. Sunny is really obsessed with Ajay and looks to be even more obsessed with him than the Ajay fans themselves. It seems most of the times he is thinking of ways to bring down Ajay which is funny as well as weird.
What he has done here is basically what is probably called “Selection Bias” in statistics which means to deliberately select a sample which does not represent the entire population which is intended to be analyzed. The intention obviously is to just prove ones point.
For example if I start with the aim to prove that Akshay is the least successful star among the five seniors then I will deliberately pick following data :
NUMBER OF FLOPS
SRK : 20 ; Salman : 29 ; Amir : 10 ; Ajay: 29; Akshay: 37
HIGHEST FIRST DAY COLLECTIONS:
SRK : 44.97 ; Salman : 40.35; Amir : 36.22 ; Ajay : 32.09; Akshay : 20.67
MOST 100 cr FILMS:
Salman : 9 ; SRK : 6 ; Ajay : 5; Amir : 4; Akshay : 4
If someone would notice here I have deliberately selected certain “biased” data in which he is below others and ignored many other stats/achievements of Akshay (in which he must be ahead of others) just to arrive at a targeted conclusion. Such data selection is wrong obviously and in stats they basically tell u to avoid such biased sampling.
That is what Sunny has done here. Nothing to be taken seriously here in his data. For me any star who has delivered 5 100 cr movies (out of which four are non EDX also which is an achievement in itself) doesn’t need to prove anything else.
After Shivay it will be definitely his 6th which will bring him at par with SRK and only behind Salman. God knows what further proof of stardom of Ajay these guys want.
By the way well wishes for both HF3 and Shivay.
@ANK 10:39 exactly. He is a 10 years old moron kid. And shame on that guy @Challa who i thought was a sensible guy and he said number of times that he wont bash ajay anymore. And i am shocked to see that he is supporting this moron @sunny akkiholic and joins him to bash ajay. Shame on such chamaleons.
@ANK and @Dijen: Super comment as well as reply bro.
@ANK and @Dijen: Super comment as well as reply bro. …
I am a huge Akshay Kumar’s fan and happy to know that Akshay Kumar has most of highest grossers in a month. But here i am looking an idiot in comments (Sunny Akkiholic) called himself Akkian shame on you idiot u are the dirtiest spot in the name of Akshay Kumar. I love Akshay Kumar but i know Ajay Devgan is also a huge superstar he has 5 100 crore movies 2 national awards filmfare awards which Akshay has not achieved till now.
Akshay Kumar is just awesome terrific fantastic and more popular than Ajay Devgan but its not mean that morons like you comparing Ajay Devgan with Saif Suniel Shetty and others
Ajay Devgan is stupendous actor of Bollywood and proved it many times with awesome classic movies he is the one of the best actors in the world not even in bollywood
@ANK and who will mention 2800 plus lifetime collection? Who will mention 4 hits in a single year? Who will mention 44 successful movies?
When did Akshay got Holiday release like khans? Only Singh is biling nd it did 20 plus despite less buzz nd only in 3000 screens. With 4000 screens, any Akshay big film can cross 30 crores on eider diwali Christmas day holiday .
& who will mention that Akshay takes maximum risk by releasing 4 films unlike khan’s .
Here is the list of verdicts of ajay movie by indicine..only 1 clean hit in 10 years between 2000 to 2009 . Check it
http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/most-successful-actors-in-bollywood-detailed/
@ANK Dumbass I have all knowledge of bollywood so no big deal to write about ajay movies…even i have bash hrithik career many times. Even i will bash shahid emran too if I will like to.. srk salman ,they have more hits nd good career that is y I don’t go to much detail in khan’s movies but Ajay is most easy actor to bash nd @Aisha iqbal makes me bash him even more otherwise I don’t even count him in superstar’s league. Got it L
@punk bastard…even naseruddin is world class actor so it means I will put him in Other big superstars league ? You chameleon Akki fan .
Nd what’s bad in saif sunil league? They are also stars at least nd just look at ajay career, he wasn’t even a commercial actor before 2010 as indicine mentioned in this above link article. Shut up Loser
@indicine why u dnt show my comments u must show because they werent any abusive plz check again & show plz
@sunny akiholic akshay wasnt a commercial star befor 2007
What do you expect indicine to call Ajay? They never liked him let’s face it. Go to the earlier part of top 10 actors bollywood 6 years ago. Ajay at no.4 purely omitted Rajneeti from Ajays list of hit movies and swapped it with Akrosh. No superstar gave more hits than Mr Ajay Devgn 2010.
@Makkiholic just like how indicine calls Ajay non commercial that’s the same way when I look for what @Dr Aisha Iqbal normally say on Google Yahoo it comforms with her occasional pinch salt Ajay Devgn most profitable superstar 2010.
From a Die hard Hrithik fan but before that a non bias Indian Man.
@cm punk the best. Some Akshay Kumar fans if followed your footsteps unlike @Challa @Ullu @SUnnyajayobsessionlust today Hrithik and Akshay fans would have been both supporting opposite movies promos