It’s here finally, the TOP 15 Grossers of 2012! The table below illustrates the total net collections of films (all figures from Boxofficeindia) and their final verdicts.
With the multiplex culture expanding exponentially over the last couple of years, we’ve also included two parameters which hold maximum importance while judging the fate of a movie at ticket window:
1. Release Date [Holiday/ Non-Holiday]
2. Number of screens the film was exhibited at. [This is an approximate figure. Actual may vary by +/-100 screens].
TOP 15 Biggest Grossers of 2012
Top 15 Highest Grossing Films 2012
- Contrary to 5 films in 2011 (Bodyguard – 141 cr / Ready – 121 cr / Ra One – 115 cr / Don2 – 105 cr / Singham – 99 cr), there were as many as 8 films in 2012 which joined the 100 crore elite club.
- Two most vital ventures which couldn’t find a place in TOP 15 are :- Kahaani (SUPER HIT) with collections around 60 cr and Vicky Donor (SUPER HIT) which made business in excess of 41 cr.
Most Profitable Superstars
Percentage Share of Superstars
- In 2012, all bollywood films collectively generated a grand total of 2600+ crore nett. The chart shown above depicts the percentage share contributed by all actors individually.
- Akshay Kumar leads the sprint with maximum contribution of 15.9% as the cumulative business done by his five films count to RECORD 413 cr. Salman Khan is at 2nd spot with his two biggies collecting in excess of 336 crore (12.9%) and thus he also managed by far the best average of 168 crore. Similar calculative theory holds true for every other superstar.
- Two most prominent stars in “Others” category are Emraan Hashmi and Saif Ali Khan with cumulative collections of 130 crore (5%) and 120 crore (4.6%) respectively.
- An astonishing statistic that the above case study throws is that the TOP 7 superstars collectively added 52.6% of the total business and the industry relies on OTHERS for the rest 47.4%. Thus it is once again established that our industry works as a team and every actor, star or not a star, has a proportionate share in it.
Favorite Genres
Most Popular Genre 2012
- In order to analyse the distribution of genres in Bollywood, we’ve taken into account the TOP 15 films mentioned in the first section of this article.
- Although, almost every film belongs to more than one genre, to facilitate our study we’ve considered most eminent genre for every film. For example, Agneepath is an Action-Drama but we’ve taken it as an Action movie.
- ACTION — Ek Tha Tiger / Dabangg 2 / Rowdy Rathore / Agneepath; COMEDY — Housefull 2 / Bol Bachchan / Son of Sardar / Khiladi 786; ROMANCE — Jab Tak Hai Jaan / Cocktail / Student of the Year; DRAMA — Barfi! ; SUSPENSE — Talaash; HORROR — Raaz 3; SOCIAL — OMG! Oh My God.
- The prominence of Action genre is quite evident as all TOP 4 grossing films belong to this category. Comedy is the second favorite with an equal number of 4 films as Action while Romance takes third spot with 3 movies. Out of TOP 15, Drama, Suspense, Horror and Social categories have one film each.
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Article by Archit Mishra (tweets @architmishra_06)
dabbang 2 collection after saturday 110 cr…how can you sauy it will collect 150 cr +……..whether any sallu film collect including tiger more than 40 cr after second weekend…?????????????????????????????
THis years diwali will be the biggest ever in bollywood.. all records will be shattered.. K3 is coming
HRs lineup
K3 : 250 Carore
Bang Bang 150 carore
Paani : 200 Carore
Hr with Kabir Khan : 150 Carore
HR with Zoya : 200 Carore
2013,2014,2015 HR will Rawk
wer is english vinglish ?????its superhit film. be fare ok!………………….Why? bcoz ? really NFG
@ suman
Dabanng-2 DROPPING Fast
2nd Fri: 4.5 crores
2nd Sat: 6.5 crores
Just shows Dhakkan Sallu’s career is over. He was very lucky for the purple patch BO run from 2010-2012 with SOLO EID releases with full masala movies.
Kick & Radhe will destroy Sallu for good. He is finished.
Dabanng-2 NOT matching Dabanng 2nd BO Weekend of 24.24 crores.
Dabanng-2 Max will be around 15-16 crores matching JTHJ 2nd weekend.
This also ends Brand “chulbul pandey” for good. Well done Arbaaz for destroying big bro’s career.
incidine why has u kept my comment always in moderation?
King kumar rocks.
@ Khan, D2 second weekend collections is 21 crores, FYI.
As per BOI – D2 is 117 crores and JTHJ is – 102 crores.
As per Taran Adarsh & Others – D 2 is 128 crores [in 10 days] and JTHJ is [121 crores, life time].
BOI declared, D 2 as blockbuster in 9 days and JTHJ Hit after 2-3 weeks.
Indicine have lost the plot, if Taran Adarsh and Komal Nahta claim JTHJ made 121 crore approx, and you guys all through out showed that as well only to go back to 101 and SOS as 85, it is a joke. Why are people here arguing here? everyone is entitled to their own opinion
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“Yes, I work for money. Every
other actor or rather any person
in the world is working for money
so their loved-ones can live
happily, but some of them feel
shy to say it, I don’t.
But for that money, I will do
commercials, dance in weddings,
or do any other thing but never
something which takes Indian
cinema in backward direction.
We are making movies which we
only used to make in 1970’s &
that king of south-indian masala
1-man-show action was shown
due to technological inability that
time but now just to earn money
because its a sureshot money-
making idea? No, I’ll never do
that.
Money means a lot to me, but it
isn’t everything to me. I will never
lead any innocent to wrong
direction by advertising smoking
ads just for money.
Every professional whatever he
does, wants to be best in his field,
best in the world, but some of
them feel shy to say it, I don’t.
Yes I am a selfish, over-confident
dog of someone if I say I want to
be best actor the world has ever
seen, but its in their minds too
who accuse me of being selfish.
They just dont have guts to say it
or guts to realize their dream. I
have.
My parents died when I was a
child, I want to make movies so
grand that they can even see
them from stars where they are
now.
I made Ra.One , I never disclosed
actual amount that we spent in it
but I can assure you, it was huge,
more than any other actor have
ever dream of spending in even 5
movies altogether.
Hollywood is making Avatars &
transformers & Dark Knights &
going into forward direction by
using superior VFX technology in
every new film & we are
remaking our own movies we
used to make 10 years ago
without even a single change
scriptwise or technology-wise.
I will always be proud of making
Ra.One, if in future, we ever
made movies like Avatar in India,
I will be called pioneer of it, the
first man who risked money in so
risky area, who risked his hard-
achieved fame which he earned
by blood & sweat in 20 years was
at risk because in 150crores, we
couldnt make a avatar which
costed 1200crores, but we have
the power, the capacity to make
movies better than hollywood,
my company Red Chillies VFX &
many other companies in India
gives better special effects than
many hollywood companies in
cheaper price.
Indian company Prime Focus i 1
of leading companies in the
world to make 3D movies but
sadly 95% of its revenue comes
from hollywood, when it can
make a 3D movie like avatar for
them, why not for any Indian
movie?
Everyday we will say bollywood is
a gutter, it has gone shit, but who
is responsible for that, we
ourselves. We encouraged cheap
remakes by watching them,, we
encouraged 1-man-show in
movies by enjoying those scenes,
on which whole world spits &
says we are still third world.
Only way hollywood sees India is
the India shown in slumdog-
millionaire. A foreigner comes to
India, shows its poverty in slums,
makes worst image of india in
front of world one could possibly
make, wins his oscar & we are
happy that a movie based on
India won oscar.
Yes I need money, because I am
planning a 800mn$(4400crore)
movie which is more than even
net worth of all my assets &
properties combined,
it will be a triology on
Mahabharata, technologically
more advanced than even the
best of the world like Lord Of the
rings or the Batman series, but if
movies like Ra.one continue to
face criticism, I might drop my
idea someday & start
makingmoney by producing
10-15cr budget south indian
remakes & earning 200crores out
of them.
Yes I need money so our movies
can remove the ‘slumdog’
adjective from our name.
Criticizing whats going on is very
easy, to go into it & get your
hands dirty to clean it is what real
men does & I will do that, in very
near future, very.”
-Shah Rukh Khan in an interview
when asked why he doesn’t do
south-Indian remakes?
Salman Khan again on the top. his average is 168 crore and could go even above.
Akshay released 5 films that’s why he is on the top but the avegrage is just 82.6 crore.
Ek tha Tiger is All time block buster, It collected the business of 199.7 Crores/
@deepu Aamir khan is a champion actor look at the genre of the movie and its overseas collection if taken together very well makes it blockbuster.If Aamir depends on multi starrers (ghajini and fanaa lol ) and raj Kumar hirani then how does srk differ? (yash chopra/Johar boy) ? making Don , don 2 (franchise owner) Sachin does not score 200 every time he bats…same goes for Aamir…u cant give ghajini (ATBB) den 3 idiots (ATBB and biggest ever hit) and expect him to give 3 ATBB’s in a row…that 2 with suspense genre. Dhoom 3 will wreck havoc on all d box office records and what ever is left to be conquered will be conquered by little maestro with PEEKAY! worry about chindi express and illiterate farah khans movie