Q. Will there be any movie in future which will cross the footfalls of Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, DDLJ and Gadar? – Lokesh Goel
A. It will be difficult. In the last 10 years, 3 Idiots received the highest number of footfalls for a Bollywood film and even then it struggled to come close to the footfalls of films like Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, DDLJ and Gadar. There are several reasons why footfalls at theatres have reduced in the last decade or so. The audience has many more entertainment options today, as compared to 15-20 years ago. Hundreds of television channels and online video streaming websites like Youtube. Also, the ticket prices have increased quite significantly, not many families can afford to pay Rs 2000 for every movie outing. And finally, there is piracy too. Downloading and watching a movie from the internet is easy. So, unless a film is truly worth the price of a ticket, audiences prefer to stay away from theatres.
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Q. If we follow Hollywood pattern, then they have three seasons in which different types of film get release, like January – March for low budget and family friendly movies, April – August for blockbusters and High budget movies, and September – December for Award racers, sci-fi and Horror and indie movies, what will happen if Bollywood start using the same formula? – Saket
A. Unlike Hollywood, Bollywood is almost entirely a star-driven industry. Since most big films revolve around a star, big stars prefer to release their films during holidays and most of these big holiday weekends fall in the second half of the year – which is why most big stars like Salman, SRK and Aamir have released their films between July and December.
Q. The trend of Badlapur and Action Jackson had been similar. Then why one is considered as been “liked” and another “rejected”? Is it just due to the budgets? – Ravi
A. Badlapur collected 38 crore in Week 1 and 9.5 crore in Week 2, which is a drop of 75% from first week. Action Jackson collected Rs 45 crore in Week 1 and 10.5 crore in Week 2, which is a drop of around 77%. So yes, the trend was similar, but the budget of Action Jackson was 3 times higher than Badlapur – which was Eros International’s only profit-making film after 5-6 releases! It’s also about perception, which is created by the media and trade. Good films that don’t do well at the box office, are not considered to be ’rejected’ films.
Q. I want to know that Akshay Kumar’s Singh Is Bling is confirmed for 2015 or 2016 ? - Faizan Tariq Khan
A. For now, Singh Is Bling is releasing on Gandhi Jayanti (2nd October 2015). But release dates can change anytime!
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Also earlier good movies used to have an extended run at the BO.But today since there are at least two releases every week even blockbuster movies don’t run at Theatres for more than 2 months.If I remember Veer-Zaara was the last movie which ran for more than 25 weeks in some selected multiplexes
Prdp will cross the footfalls of hahk
@indicine
perfect answer for the first question
100% Flop Akshay Kumar Next Films.
Jo Banda Baby jaisi Movie sirf Avg Tak hi le ja sakta hai. Iska Matlab ye hai Akshay kumar ko Public Hate karti hai…..Everyone know that Akki is Super disaster Actor.30cr king.
Gobar = Diasaster
Ching is blind = Superflop
Rip 30cr Akshay kumar 2 min silence
PK has recorded 3.5 crore ticket sales. In spite of tremendous rise in piracy, it has still managed to topple 3 idiots record of 3 crore footfalls by 50 lakhs! HAHK and DDLJ released when piracy was not that big. If they released today they’d record similar sales!
In recent time on indicine almost all QnA segment contains question related to Akshay . This is what we called “popularity”.
Piracy and Heavy ticket price is a big problem.
When i visited my regular torrent site , i could see Detective boymukesh at the same day of it’s release and now it’s number of download is more than 20 thousands!!!!
SIB will definetly come on October 2nd coz he (akshay) is not so lazy like our other superstars…!!!
hahk footfalls is highest for any bollywood movie way higher than 4cr wow proud of u bhaijaan
It will be difficult for any movie to cross the footfalls of hahk..top 10 hits in last 30 years with highest footfalls
1. Hahk(4.57cr)
2. Gadar(4.17cr)
3. Ddlj(3.90cr)
4. Raja hindustani(3.75cr)
5.3i(2.83cr)multiplex era
6.pk(2.80cr)multiplex era
7.kkhh(2.70cr)
8.d3(2.65cr)multiplex era
9.mpk(2.50cr)
10.k3g(2.45cr)
I hear about many people watching films in single screens for very low prices so hard to believe some people find it hard to afford tickets.
Our bhai’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan & PRDP will become highest grossers of all time even though none of his films since HAHK have.
Waiting for salman fans, aka closet srk fans, to start talking about srk since they’re so obsessed with him. Is someone paying them to talk about srk all teh time?
Thank you indicine for answering my question. Sad reality in Hollywood, RDJ, Jhonny Depp, Tom Cruise were A-listers but even they don’t guarantee a huge initial apart from their franchise films but here we judge the stars with their films collections not by their performances.
which movie have highest footfalls among these 3 movies?
@Indicine yes I have one question
Who is Our Bhaijans Driver?
Ans- Bhaijan himself
Waiting For SIngh Is ßling .
Bcos of 1 failure Of prbhudeva Ppl R Taking SIB lightly & Spreading negativity Around The Film .
Except from AJ , His All previous 4 movies Were Entertaining nd dats wat audience Want . Singh is bling Will Be a Big Success .
we all watch movies once in theater … then if its great we watch it on mobile.. no 1 can stop it… higher ticket prices… pyracy.. fast intrnet… all denting film industry….
but film industry kill themselves when they serve people with r..rajkumar.. chainnai express… happy new year.. actn jacksn etc.. once we loose hard earned money on these movies we dnt repeate mistake n smtime let gud movies go… WAKE UP BOLLYWOOD..
another great article indicine, more q&a pls!!
Dilwale will be the 1st Bollywood movie to enter 100 Cr. Footfall club.
Mark my words!
@gj007: yes i also read this piece of news that pk crossed 3idiots footfalls but could’nt believe it,for 3crs sales of ticket ,3i was way ahead of any film at that while PK is 70crs ahead of d3,also jad significant high ticket rates.I read somewhere that PK’s footfalls are around 20% more than D3. 3I trended way too better,PK got a better initial weekend n 1st week when rates r higher,so i think footfalls of 3I should be more than it.So the report that u r referring to seems dubious to me.
@gunda no.1 mpk and KKHH had more (must be 3.25 -3.5 cr) footfall than 3I and pk.
Agree with @saket,tom cruise,johnny depp all these actors are not that popular among american youth anymore..be it oblivion or the lone ranger,their average films have’nt worked at the boxoffice,don’t get off to a gud start..
But here people are too obsessed with no.
One guy above said that akki cud’nt make baby a blockbuster,arre bhai what would u have got had it been a BB?? U go to enjoy a film n at the end of d day u are not getting a single penny out of 300crs or 400crs!!
Singh is bling release holiday or nonholiday. No matter
100% sure movie is going to be All time biggest super duper Disaster…..
Akshay carriar finish and searching new job Waiter
The top ten footfalls of 2014 are as follows and the ATP (Average Ticket Price) for each film is in brackets.
1. PK – 2.79 cr (160)
2. Kick – 2.03 cr (141)
3. Happy New Year – 1.63 cr (146)
4. Singham Returns – 1.43 cr (133)
5. Bang Bang – 1.31 cr (144)
6. Jai Ho – 1.24 cr (120)
7. Holiday – 1.16 cr (131)
8. 2 States – 95.5 lakhs (145)
9. Ek Villain – 93.3 lakhs (141)
10. Gunday 72.4 lakhs – (136)
The year saw some grossing films topping the 150 ATP mark for the first time with PK leading the list as it managed to hold first weekend ticket rates all through the week. Other films which topped 150 were Queen and Haider. The lower end of the grossing films saw Jai Ho and Action Jackson as they had a huge ratio of business coming from single screens. The footfalls have come down for blockbuster films due to high ticket prices as Gadar topped 4 crore in 2001 and Hum Aapke Hai Kaun was much more than 4 crore in 1994.
@gj007 pk have 2.79cr footfalls, kick have 2.05cr n hny have 1.63cr respectively.
Piracy need 2 b stopped….
Agree with u sunny
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The top ten footfalls of 2014 are as follows and the ATP (Average Ticket Price) for each film is in brackets.
1. PK – 2.79 cr (160)
2. Kick – 2.03 cr (141)
3. Happy New Year – 1.63 cr (146)
4. Singham Returns – 1.43 cr (133)
5. Bang Bang – 1.31 cr (144)
6. Jai Ho – 1.24 cr (120)
7. Holiday – 1.16 cr (131)
8. 2 States – 95.5 lakhs (145)
9. Ek Villain – 93.3 lakhs (141)
10. Gunday 72.4 lakhs – (136)
The year saw some grossing films topping the 150 ATP mark for the first time with PK leading the list as it managed to hold first weekend ticket rates all through the week. Other films which topped 150 were Queen and Haider. The lower end of the grossing films saw Jai Ho and Action Jackson as they had a huge ratio of business coming from single screens. The footfalls have come down for blockbuster films due to high ticket prices as Gadar topped 4 crore in 2001 and Hum Aapke Hai Kaun was much more than 4 crore in 1994..
Top Ten Footfalls And Average Ticket Prices 2014
The top ten footfalls of 2014 are as follows and the ATP (Average Ticket Price) for each film is in brackets.
1. PK – 2.79 cr (160)
2. Kick – 2.03 cr (141)
3. Happy New Year – 1.63 cr (146)
4. Singham Returns – 1.43 cr (133)
5. Bang Bang – 1.31 cr (144)
6. Jai Ho – 1.24 cr (120)
7. Holiday – 1.16 cr (131)
8. 2 States – 95.5 lakhs (145)
9. Ek Villain – 93.3 lakhs (141)
10. Gunday 72.4 lakhs – (136)
The year saw some grossing films topping the 150 ATP mark for the first time with PK leading the list as it managed to hold first weekend ticket rates all through the week. Other films which topped 150 were Queen and Haider. The lower end of the grossing films saw Jai Ho and Action Jackson as they had a huge ratio of business coming from single screens. The footfalls have come down for blockbuster films due to high ticket prices as Gadar topped 4 crore in 2001 and Hum Aapke Hai Kaun was much more than 4 crore in 1994.
a family entertainer with universal appeal ,, great reviews ,, any of top 4(srk salman aamir hrithik) with holiday release will cross footfalls of 3 idiots.
mind well i said 3 idiots.
gadar hahk nd ddlj are far too away now as per current scenario.
for me – i firmly believe that any of akshay or ajay’s movie cant get footfalls like 3 idiots.be it normal release or holiday release.