The festive weekends of Bollywood, which includes Eid, Diwali and Christmas, are by far the most lucrative period for film releases.
Some points:
- No film that has released outside the three major holiday periods has crossed the 200 crore mark.
- The Top 10 grossers of all time (without adjusting inflation) all belong to festive releases.
- The highest grosser belongs to Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone’s Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani which released back in 2013. Since then, only two films – Bang Bang and Tanu Weds Manu Returns – have crossed the 150 crore mark.
- The Khans (Salman, SRK, Aamir) have dominated Eid, Diwali, Christmas. In the last 6 years, Salman had two non-festive releases Ready (120 cr) and Jai Ho (112 cr). Aamir had only one release Talaash (93 cr) and Shah Rukh also has only one FAN (85 cr). So even the Khan films, apart from Ready, have been under-performers when they releases their films outside the festive period. In fact, the worldwide gross of all four of their non-festive films is lower than the worldwide gross of just one film PK.
- Akshay Kumar leads with four films, followed by Ajay Devgn with three.
Note: Only films that have crossed the 100 crore mark have been including in the table below.
| Movie | Collections |
|---|---|
| Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani | 188 cr |
| Bang Bang | 181 cr |
| Tanu Weds Manu Returns | 151 cr |
| Singham Returns | 140 cr |
| Rowdy Rathore | 134 cr |
| Airlift | 128 cr |
| Agneepath | 122 cr |
| Ready | 120 cr |
| Housefull 2 | 116 cr |
| Ram Leela | 115 cr |
| Holiday | 113 cr |
| Jai Ho | 112 cr |
| Barfi! | 108 cr |
| ABCD 2 | 104 cr |
| Bhaag Milkha Bhaag | 104 cr |
| Ek Villain | 103 cr |
| 2 States | 102 cr |
| Singham | 101 cr |
| Race 2 | 101 cr |
| Bol Bachchan | 101 cr |
| Grand Masti | 101 cr |
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Global Pankha Salesman struggling to cross 90cr on a non holiday let alone 100cr….
Shame
Joker Boy has 4 100cr hits but when he gets a holiday advantage he royally screws it up… hhhmmm moral of the story for exhibitors is that when Joker Boys crap nears release on an EDX holiday LOCK up your theatres…!
Give Joker Boy an EDX holiday n he will guarantee you a miracle ie how to deliver a 60cr FLOP
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@indicine so when did Holiday beat Jai ho collection? Lolo.. You guys are just so Akkiholic(not that cartoon 8 grader) Chill yaar chill!!! Jai ho 117 RR 133 Sr 141 tnwm 2 154!! Revist your figure….. But Good attempt!!
With clashes on EDX You still find Ajay name in another list – Edx 1 Billion rupees club…. 2 wice.. Am ok nothing much to specify.
well done boys Vivek Ranbir Akshay kudos I can see Vivek is there! Ranbir has 2 wow Akki 4 wow wow… They are coming up step by step!!
NB : good to see Hrithik and Salman. Wanna know more about them too? visit EDX 100 cr clubs. Don’t know whats went wrong with Fan if not comfortably it was suppose to be on the top 5 for non Edx.
Yikes!!!
Dishoom movie top 5 place
This article again proves that Salmoron is ZERO without EID…
The Non Star has taken Eid Festival as granted and this festival is giving him seasonal job in the industry…!!!
No doubt if the Non Actor is known as EID MADE STAR…
Salmoron, Never try to release any film any other date on Eid is not falling otherwise, Your illeterate fans will leave Indicine forever or will not bark here anymore…
Ignoring some mental users here I don’t say this that much but just for today ??Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar can achieve 200 with Edx with good scripts,not always clash and composed acting. Reaching milestones of Shah rukh is still possible ?Aamir and Salman have gone a little bit to far.?? I trust them ?more than Hrithik with content rich scripts
Imagine bollywood without Akshay Ajay Hrithik on non holidays
Khans are super flop on non holidays
Hrithik Akshay Ajay are real stars
@navin
LOL! And what happened when ur Bhaijaan clashed with Akshay on Diwali twice?
Garam Masala vs Kyon Ki
Blue vs Main aur Mrs Khanna
@ Aisha changlich fatli na cry girl cry . Dhoongan Dhuvgan fan .
Akki is real king .
Holiday always collected more than Jai Ho..some people failed to notice that coz may be they were suffering from trauma of Himmatwala and Satyagraha..lol
@Babaji, why are you over hyping baby? It was not a big success. Wasn’t BB experimental and a huge grosser as well? At this modern time when Sanskari family dramas have almost died, didn’t he do PRDP? Many even called it a wedding tape? Wasn’t it experimental when nobody is daring to do that genres.
Experimental doesn’t always mean doing thrillers like Baby!
Fact is that the TRADE wants only Khan films, not the films of chote mote stars like Akki whose films yet to cross the collections of Kangna’s film. He ruined independence day weekend on which both Salman and Ajay have 30 crores plus opening!!
So, Akki doesn’t deserve EDX anymore. As simple as that.
Ha ha ha, we all know what happened to TMK, SIB, on big holidays.
@Ajay salmab fan, yup, ajay who is yet to have a blockbuster of his own is indeed a real superstar. Ajay whsoe movies hardly take 12 cr or more opening is a very big real superstar. Akshay who is ruling 60-80 cr clubs is real superstar. Salman who has been chasing ATHG records since 2009 amnd failing everytime despite great story BB is real superstar. Salman whose magnum oppus Jai ho crossed 17 cr opening with 4000 screens is real superstar. Salman whose main aur mrs khanna crossed 8 cr life time in diwali festival in 2008 is so real and natural superstar. Hatts off to your logic.
@Babaji, why are you over hyping baby? It was not a big success. Wasn’t BB experimental and a huge grosser as well? At this modern time when Sanskari family dramas have almost died, didn’t he do PRDP? Many even called it a wedding tape? Wasn’t it experimental when nobody is daring to do that genres.
Experimental doesn’t always mean doing thrillers like Baby??
Fact is that the TRADE wants only Khan films (to an extent Hrithik and Ajay films) on EDX, not the films of chote mote stars like Akki whose films yet to cross the collections of Kangna’s film. He ruined independence day weekend on which both Salman and Ajay have 30 crores plus openings!!
So, Akki doesn’t deserve EDX anymore. As simple as that.
Mohehjodharo will top this list followed by HF3
As I always said Without EDX srk is nothing
Lol.
Akshay on TOP .
All his 4 movies have comfortably crossed 100 crore while Srk Amir failed Miserably.
Come here old lady@AISHA .
Ajay have only 1 non holiday 100 cr that is franchise singham returns as you follows BOI only . :-P now wht will you take to shut your Double standard mouth?
That ranbir have 2 big 100 crore nd both non franchise .
Your Ajay comes in category of farahn akhtkr, both have 1,but even there Ajay got help of franchise singham to cross 100 crore . :-P STARDOM level .
@GANGS OF AJAY DEVGAN.. We know how your Ajay can achieve 100 crore .
Drishym – 5 crore opener
Akrosh ‘ 3 crore opener
Tez- 2 cr opener …this is his level from 2010 . :-P
Only by franchise help he crosse 100 on non festive :-P Dumbass nd no offence but your name is Very funny as I think there is no gang of Devgan .
Bang bang non holiday are u kidding me @indicine
It got many holidays in it’s week …
Gandhi Jayanti, dusshera, bakr eid plus Saturday and Sunday…!!!
How can you say bang bang is a non holiday release???
@Deadpool, you should read the article again before asking questions. Quite clearly mentioned in the article – non festive i.e Films that did not release during Eid Diwali Christmas.
Just look at ajays 100 crore movies.
Only singham returns crossed 100 crore comfortably that due to franchise nd 1 holiday.
Otherwise his other 2 bol bachan & singham r not even 100 crore according to BOI nd u r saying he can do 200 on festival.
If u can’t cross even 150 with your best movie sequel on independence then you can assume what he is capable of..nd you Knuclehead taking his name with Akshay instead of Ranbir kapur who is more capable to give 200 on EDX. YOU r just favouring him to show him a big star :-P
Bol bachan – 98
Singhm – 99 . Yes he is good to deliver 200 on festival. I agree Idiot :P
@abhay: my darling bro…missed u from so many days…ajay Sir is gr8 actor even greater than bycott amir khan…amir non edx is worst..amir is not superstar EDX is Superstar…abhay anytime u can come myside n inbetween boycott dangal na
Then @anand the original moron your bhaijaan is yet to cross 120cr on non holiday and he also hasn’t gone passed twmr box office figure..!!!!!
Oops but sorry why would Bhai release his film outside edx otherwise the result would be worst than jai ho…!!!
@Rajesh K
Bros wachu saying? Urdu is okay not your dialect… Please adhere okay? akki is king ofcourse he is why not? why just crowning him? now I am seriously crossed with ya fella… His been due since right? yikes!!
so funny when these 3devs including @Sunny and Kela ka Chela chameleon ji all arrange their comments one after the other all for me!!! Gussa gussa gussa on moi?!! funny kids…
@Yogi bear
Gosh Yogi.. Look @your comment it’s adhuri until now…you said nothing yaar.
Do you know what they call “Selling wolf tickets ” that’s you kiddo.. But listen no matter how you try your venom is immature it can’t change what’s already on ground.. But Good job am impressed esp with your recent history review on Ajay Sir ancestors… Keep it up boy! step by step…
Secondly.. are you really an 8th grader? am barely 25…..but if you call me your Aunty my pleasure @kiddo.
BTW Don’t both replyn… aisha ain’t coming bk.. just wanted replying @Rajesh but @Kela ka Chela chameleon ji and you interrupted so what to do…small fan boys @Anand reply to @Kela ka chela chameleon ji.. was simply world standard!! better you read it too.
@Indicine finally pls re-address
Top 5 should be
Ett
YJHD
Bang bang
Tnwm returns
Singham returns.
If SR can be included why can’t Ett? Salman 3 non Edx grossers… Not 2. Those who don’t like me Yikes!! (I say it anytime I know akki fans will react but insignificantly.. Yikes!!)
Last not the least.. Whenever pioneers of these clubs will be called fact remains fact.. When others were struggling.
Aamir 1st superstar to create 100 cr club
Salman next to join…!!
Mr Bad guy.. 3rd superstar to join…
Aamir does it again
Salman again
Mr Bad guy..again…. They all had 2 each before some notable biggies like Srk sir. the rest are chancers excluding Srk sir…
among three KHANS, megastar on top wid two non holiday 100 crores releases.that means salman leads the khans both holiday and non holiday.Fact is fact…
@Sunny, ha ha ha, so now the big question is, is ajay worth being called superstar? I dont think so. And his ekka dukka fans are hiding behind salman and hrithik to beg support.
@Ajay Fan, dear moron, your fanless flopstar never has been star forget superstar. Actually rohit shetty is superstar who has made your star’s career. Get lost tiny beggar. Beg the support of salman, hrithik but still your star cant cross 150 cr. Dangal’s 5 days collections will be much more than shivaay’s collections. Thats my open challenge to you, aamir is baap of whole bollywood and its aamir who has made Christmas the most lucrative period. But your star hasnt been able to.make any festive a big period as he is not a star. He should better join the league of saif ali khan, suniel shetty, etc. Mark my words, your boycott will not stop dangal from crossing 400 cr in india. You tiny actor’s fan will boycott megastar’s movie? Ha ha ha. Tell us more joked please.
@abhay: worst fellow abhay it will happen in your dream…your flopstar during non edx dont have star power2 cross 100cr…and u r deshdrohis fan
@Ajay lallu fan, who are you to use any word that comes in your mind. Megastar Aamir khan is baap of both yout tiny actors ajay and salman who can never compete with megastar aamir khan even in their dreams. Tiny 2 codi ke fan, akaat me baat kar. Dangal will literally crush your tiny actors’ movies easily and beat within 5 days. Worry about your none popular fanless actor’s career.
@james megastar who? The one who gave lowest grosser of last decsde called marigold? Or the one who gave hattrick of disasters in 2007-2009 ? Is he leading. Surely, in terms of flops and disasters he is leading. Otherwisd he is too tin compared to megastar aamir khan who hs given maximum ATBBs and ATHGs both in india and overseas.