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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@abhay: u r in frustation that ur Edx power star is big flopstar during non-edX….first check ur aukaat u baigan
@Ajay’s one and only fan, calm down. Both your loser none actors ajay and salman were biggest flop stars in last decade werent they? So i can understand your feelings. On non holiday aamir has RDB, Fanaa, Lagaan, they all were superhits on non holiday. So better shut your crap. Also tell me something about ajay putsode rohit shetty films. What is his aukaat? Accept the fact that you are a fan of supper flop star. Dont be frustrated. Take some burnol.
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