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Q. How are the box office prospects of Raees looking now? Is it still being seen as a potential bumper openers on a Friday morning by the trade??
A. Too early to talk about Raees right now. There is still quite a bit of uncertainty around the release of the film. Are the makers willing to take on a film like Hrithik’s Kaabil? If Mohenjo Daro goes on to be a huge hit at the box office, that will completely change the way the trade would look at the clash – Hrithik would then have a upper hand. How will Excel market the film? Are they going to lie low for a while, then release the trailer a couple of months before – which wouldn’t be a great idea because the teaser was released in July last year. Too many questions at the moment. There needs to be clarity over these questions, because we even begin to talk about opening number on Friday. Releasing on Eid against Sultan was probably a better idea than pushing your film by nearly 7 months. Bakrid (September 9) was the best date.
Loading ...Q. According to you, which movie will be Highest Grosser of 2016 - Sultan? Mohenjo Daro? Shivaay? Raees (if on Bakrid)? Dangal?
A. For highest grosser of the year, it’s the content (story, writing and direction etc) that are more important because almost all films that you mentioned does feature a top star. Mohenjo Daro and Shivaay are two films that can surprise and go on to be huge grossers – because the genre of myth / history / costume has received a big boost with films like Baahubali and Bajirao Mastani. Sultan and Dangal are obviously the top contenders because of the release period and two of the biggest stars in the industry. We wouldn’t want to include Raees in this because it’s officially scheduled to be out in 2017.
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The highest grosser undoubtedly will be SULTAN. Although indicine team failed to include Housefull 3 as a contender for the highest grossing films of 2016, I have a feeling that Housefull 3 will gross way more than Shivaay. It can go up as high as 175 crores or more domestic lifetime collections.
@yuvraj bro as u know i’m new so tel me which one’s r die hard BHAI fans and do u people welcome me in ur royal group?
@aisha , u have left sanambewafa ,a superhit by ur boi . 13 clean hits .hoping for pkp ,baaghi and kurbaan to be updated .i m sure baaghi will be a hit
@haz you dumbo, jerk who are you to blabber against a respected superstar direcror kabir khan who saved your bhabyijaan’s career? Talk with sense. Kabir khan’s new york was a huge success when bhabhi was giving back to back disasters like yuvraaj, Main aur Mrs. khanna, london dreams, etc, so better shut your crap. All the majority of credit for ETT and BB’s success goes to kabir khan. So you STFU. And yeah, almost all salman’s so called Blockbusters and ATBB without kabir khan were either because of madhuri, multi starrers or south remakes. So dont teach me anything and get lost.
@ms
I would have love to include not only Sanam bewafa but even Baaghi kurban jbkshh but all fall under semi hits. For me semi hit is a hit but I don’t questions like it’s only clean hit we want and bla bla..if it’s no of successful movie 90s no one is close to Salman probably Ajay by some distance.
@Harbhajan Singh
Yes I purposely left Suhaag… I Saw Akshay deserved more clean hits than the no boi gave him. Plus This Ajay -Akki debate I did not want to bring it on that’s why I added Suhaag. I would be glad if you can post me the updated revised boi website if you have it….Only with that movies like… Hogi pyar ki Jeet, Major sahab,hindustan ki kasam (astonishing 1.13 each but semi hits) will be added. While movies like Jaanwar (one of his best performance), Mkta, Yeh Dilagi,Mr n mrs Khiladi will be included).
(Adjusted gross 90s…)
Mohra, KKK SBK… All 100 crs grossers
@ mohmovies- welcome bro but i am not part of any group i am only fan of good cinema and Salman. Hrithik, Anand original, myanmar yangoon, tiger- the real king, ultron the salmanics are mainly die hard and many more are Salman fans. Navin is a senior user who comes from Salmir group..
Elaan.. @no.42 in between.. Aitraaz and waqt humara hai…. Average. I thought that too was a hit…what did indicine give Elaan? I don’t even visit there..names reserved but many of his movies declared hit there are semi hit or average gross other sites!!
@aman kapoor
LOL! In our dreams, Sultan will be the highest grosser, MD will earn 180 Cr maximum just like Bang Bang.
@John Cena
It doesn’t matter who’s the director but one thing,
Content based films of all actors:
Aamir – Pk – 330 cr
Salman – Bajrangi Bhaijaan – 325 Cr
Akshay – Airlift – 125 cr
Duniya ka sabse bada superstar-Fan – 83 Cr
Salman Khan’s films content based films earn in the range of 300 Cr whereas your duniya ka Sabse bada superstar’s cult classic struggles to cross the 2 day collection of Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Big LOL!
@Aisha. Babe you rock!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Jaan deserves the 100 crores rupees tag for adjusted gross. It was a super duper hit and the adjusted gross is
999,998,000. Except you want to be modest like Salman khan ETT 199 they had every right to declare it 200crs but showed honesty. Comon nobody will query you if you round it up. Check again but very sure 100%. You did not include Suhaag and Major Sahab. Major sahab was one of the highest grosser then,those song, Soni punjabi and pyar Kiya toh nibhana were blockcharttibuster songs in india.
Salman deserves 13 hits Sanam bewafa. I don’t know why jab pyar kisi.. not declared hit? Same with kurban. Anti Salman sites but who cares look he has 3 300 crores in his closet in 90s!!!!!!!
You added Suhaag in Akshay movie list which is okay but Every one knows that’s an Ajay movie.
What’s YES BOSS doing over there?
@yuvraj thnx….i’m too a fan of good cinema and salman AND respect others But here there R fan wars everytime so i don’t like whn som1 say wrong about Salman….i respect SRK,Amir,Ajay,Akki etc and love there movies as well But here there R many nonsense people who just don’t know what they r saying ND blindly supports their Idol.I believe in Facts & Figures…
reply bro
@ mohmovies- take them as entertainer because i also do this thing sometimes specially with Srk amd Hrithik fans. I know it is difficult to keep mind cool when someone degrade your favourite but if you will be able to keep cool and give right reply to him, he will become joker in front of you.
Cant believe @sss is writing sensible comment for the first time. Are you the same @sss? By the way, u cant underestimate sultan, as for salman movies irrespective of the directors become huge grossers on eid. Same goes for shivay which would appeal to masses and ranbeer is having a bad phase currently so ajay will surely have upper hand.
@yuvraj
thnx bro………hope we will be friends forever through this site……
#BollywoodGodSalman
@yuvraj:
You should have added a few other regular visitors like…. #NVS, #JC, #js, #Bajan Indian, #the beast, #qasim, #sultan bhushan, #Marshall, #Sultan Roshan #virat kohli, #V shantaram etc..
@Aisha. Just read your reply. Must say you are a true Ajay fan. So proud when I see our fans not taking fan wars so personal nor hating an Actor so much. No Akshay fan will ever do what you did especially looking for the slightest opportunity to bring Ajay Devgn down. You want to increase his movies to make it somehow balanced but dear still it cannot be. Only 4 of his movies in 90s are clean hits not 6. Rest are semi hits and you still added? Am just saying this because I know how they dislike you.
@Ajay rocks,bro you know way back 3 years we have been friends on this site. Today I will also give you a high five?. Also you know non of them will ever praise Ajay kids. They will bash them badly. You showed maturity on mother’s day page with your comment on his son.
Indicine no matter how I dislike your admin section this is the reason I visit this site once in a while. Only here you expect the unexpected and mingle with matured minds. Two most hated Ajay fans by Akki fans not only tripped me but am sure even the akkians. This is what we call Golmaal 4 @ndicine,sulrises after suprises Keep rocking and kicking. My shouts to all my Salman Aamir and Hritz fans and my good buddies of the past @arjun young @iamakn and @Sheheer my debate mates.
@Kessler Amadi. Which part of Nigeria are you from? Am from Lagos,live Nigeria Navy Senior officer quarters @ Victoria Island. Nice seeing Nigerians participating in this forum.
@ tiger- i said many more and if i write all names of Salman fans then it will be longest comment on indicine.
@Kesslar Ammadi you jerk dumbass Aamir is biggest Megastar of the generation and tiny kids lik hakla and lalluare nothing in front of Biggest Megastar Of the Generation. Lallu is nothing without south remakes, masala movies and hakla is nothng without big heroines, festivals, etc. Megastar Aamir Khan has highest fan following worldwidr which lallu and hakla can never match even in their dreams. Hakla’s career is over with dosaster fan and Megastar amir Khan is out of reach for that tiny star. Megastar Aamir Khan has been ruling bollywood since 1988 and lallu is a tiny 2010 born star. Dpnt even dare to compare those tiny 2 flopstars with Megastar Aamir Khan.
Who is main lead actor in suhaag? Who was suhaag ajay’s mother husband or akshay’s mother husband? Im asking this question to an akki’s fans
@Sani.D
Thanks alot… Been your fan back then… Your comments really uplifted me to be candid.. I saw how you normally battled with those fans. Pleasure.. Hop Nigeria is treating you good…
Nah no problem… It makes no difference. just thought they were harsh with him..since they actually indicated only 3 movies for him which I think was unfair that’s y I added them.
Yes Sanam bewafa is a clean hit..I think skipped it by mistake.. Was having a surgery to carry out.. So guess omitted it. Yup 13 movies for Salman. will include it again. Thanks @Sani.D
NB : you understand urdu too?
housefull 3 will be in the range of 80 -100cr
@aisha not 100+
Mohra 200+ (2.1cr footfalls)
KKK 170+ (1.7cr footfalls) …!!!
Jaanwar was a huge hit of it’s time in mass areas … Akshay made a comeback..
Suhaag u can add for both Akshay and Ajay…!!!
Elaan(Hit) , MKTA(Hit) , Sapoot (semi hit)…!!!
To super mental
@bhojpuri roshan,ha ha ha ha just see how much mistakes each point of your comment has
1st. 1st tell me which superstar (including KING KHAN) wants a non entertaining movie like FAN+no songs +no heroine+no promotion+IPL EFFECT+non holiday release to make a desperate try to get a big hit? Really hard off to bhojpuri illiterate logic!!!!!
2nd. Idiot 1st check my comment clearly what I wrote.I wrote CE is the 1st 200CR movie of This decade (2010 onwards),3 idiots released in 2009 you dumb.
3rd. Since 2010 infact in 2010 KING KHAN’S another non-masala entertainer MNIK released that also not like a republic flop like jail ho/post-I’ll holiday south remake like ready,MNIK released in 2010 and despite of huge negativity IT becomes HIT and ATBB in OVERSEAS and WW is above than dabang,ready,jail ho,ROFL.infact so called FAN’S flop WW collection is too higher than republic holiday flop jail ho.and how can WE forget even a masala movie of salman in 2010 called veer is a disaster earned only 40cr less than half of FAN,ROFL.
4TH. yeah BIGB have 70 flops,so what but did you know how much movies HE did?nearly 150 movies .And giving HITS more than flops+ highest clean hits lead BIGB to become the biggest megastar+actor of the generation.And He have struggled an entire decade like salman,admit that also if you really have guts.
While look your flopstar salman did only 68 movies in lead out of which 37 are flops.as flops> clean hits(22),so he termed as a flopstar.and last but not least if anybody that holds the SUCCESS of BIGB in this generation than HE IS KING KHAN WHO gave Maximum Clean HITS (30) compared to least flops even doing more films unlike amir.
And also HE IS THE GENERATION RULER LIKE BIGB WHO NEVER STRUGGLED like salman.after BIGB KING KHAN IS THE BIGGEST MEGASTAR+ACTOR.And your star is a non actor,so please don’t compare him with BIGB,salman can’t be compared with KING SRK/BIGB’S FEET be in terms of CLASS/ACTING/CONSISTENT MEGASTARDOM.
And what you lallutards are always barking about is hgoty,then WHO knows how many hgoty BIGB have?nobody knows.only everybody knew HE gave MAXIMUM HITS/BIG HITS that KING KHAN have in HIS GENERATION.
MY MEGASTAR IS BEST IN EVERY ROLE—-ROMANCE,ACTION,NEGATIVE CHARACTER AND COMEDY too (as HE doesn’t do comedy movies among BADSHAH,CE are great proving HIS COMEDY SKILLS).
And last thing you dumb,masala content+audience appreciation is important to make a big HIT.doing dark non entertaining risk taking thrillers like FAN can’t be A BIG HIT WHICH KING KHAN did to show HIS CLASS unlike your darpok non actor always hiding behind masala genre+EID.still HE got a HIT MNIK in non holiday with non masala genre while your non actor can’t do that genre still hasn’t released in complete non holiday like MNIK,rather released in republic day/post-I’ll release.let your non actor to release a movie on complete non holiday then bark you dumb idiot.
And please never forget 40cr club masala genre disaster veer salman is always <<<<<<<<<<<85CR flop CLASSIC FAN'S KING KHAN.from every angle HE bears your non actor whether having MAXIMUM HITS/least flops/equal blockbusters.remain in your aukat.
@aisha,rectify your wrong information
salman's clean hit
hahk,mpk,Karan Arjun,Hssh,Saajan,Jeet,Pktdk—-total 7 movies are are officially clean hits everywhere.while dhlj,judwaa are average-above average,how can you add those movies to clean hit list?
Even biwi no.1,hddcs too are semi hits which later changed to hits,rofl.And don't forget among which this succes belong to his leading actors as maximum salman's success is due to multiactor movies among which Saajan,jeet,KARAN ARJUN in which he badly overshadowed.
in the same way KING KHAN'S RBGM,ANJAM ,CHHAHAT too are considered as SEMI HITS according to boi.com now ,does that mean people will believe what it'll change at any time?if yes then add these 3 too as HITS of KING KHAN.
btw you missed some CLEAN HITS in KING KHAN'S LIST too—-KABHI HAAN KABHI NA.
SO KING KHAN has 10 CLEAN HITS.which is highest CLEAN HITS in 80-90'S by any actor.
@FASAL bhojpuri(10:07 am),
Maduri(in lead with family members) with ullu—-hahk.atbb
madhuri (in lead) with KING KHAN—-anjaam.above average
MADHURI with KING KHAN (LEAD)—-DTPH.BB
but look at these
Priety+Rani in approximate 10-15 films with our ullu—-flops/disaster
priety+Rani with all OUR KING KHAN FILMS—-ATBB,BB,SUPER HITS
Salman—-debut heroine’s career destructor—bhagyashree,daisy,zarine,lucky film’s heroine and many more
KING KHAN—-Debut Heroine’s career constructor—-Priety,Deepika,Anushka.
Now feel some shame along with @tiger.
@suchit,yeah it’s me and I never hated amir just because of his supporters for supporting to criminal KHAN which I already clarified.
Sultan has only advantage over Dangal—–anushka Sharma.so mahacrap sultan has 10% chance to become hgoty due to anushka while 90% chance is there for Dangal.and as It was my honest review not any hatred comment.
@Deadpool 2.0
I can post the link for you..can you post yours? Jaanwar for me I believe it was a hit too.. But MATK raw collection made it semi except if boi have updated it then I will be very happy so that.. I can see Hpkj major sahab too in that list.
@Mohra
Nah don’t get mistaken.. The article is on adjusted gross not Worldwide collection.
Adjusted gross is comparing the 10crs crs(Trade -producers) crs back then with current rate(inflow,exchange).. etc.
Mohra official trade was 10crs 1994… It’s adjusted gross is 82.3 crs. Darr 1993 so adjusted gross 95crs.. HADMRH Anil kajol 1999…raw collection 14.5.. Adjusted gross 84crs despite earning 14.5 but can’t compare 1994 value in rupees of Mohra with 1999 that’s why 84crs. PTHHT 19.5 but 1998 that’s why 101 crs. Kkk 14.5 1996 so adjusted gross 109 crs. That’s the concept don’t be confused with worldwide and adjusted gross. Why not goggle adjusted gross of Mohra NOT WORLDWIDE. in 90s only 4 movies with adjusted gross 200+… Border DTPH Karan Arjun. 300-500….we’re only… HAHK, Ddlj and Raja hindustani.. 3 khan’s.
@SSS
Yes,sir, you are always correct so I will do so!!
Sultan vs Dangal. Which film will be the highest grosser of the year 2016, if Sultan has word of mouth like Pk and Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dangal has average word of mouth? Also could you please tell the difference between content film and word of mouth.
Aamir don’t have the power and ability
RAEES ….WILL BE THE BIGGEST …grosser of all time i am praying it should not beat pk but the thing is that we all expect lots of thing from sultan n my favourite dangal but raees is something era n diffrent
I am aamir khan fan but i am saying one thing ki
Raees sabka maa behen ek kar dalegi
Hope we both aamir n salman fan believe or not but these is only the truth ….
Raees will be champ
only srk