Industries / Bollywood / 2010

Bollywood hits and flops, 2010

Every Bollywood film released in 2010 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 19 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Udaan2010-06-17	$1M	$7M	6.7×	Blockbuster
2	Band Baaja Baaraat2010-12-10	$3M	$21M	6.4×	Blockbuster
3	Dabangg2010-09-10	$9M	$48M	5.2×	Blockbuster
4	Peepli Live2010-08-13	$2M	$10M	4.7×	Blockbuster
5	Golmaal 32010-11-05	$9M	$37M	4.2×	Blockbuster
6	Housefull2010-04-30	$7M	$27M	4.2×	Blockbuster
7	I Hate Luv Storys2010-06-30	$4M	$16M	3.6×	Blockbuster
8	Raajneeti2010-06-04	$10M	$32M	3.2×	Blockbuster
9	My Name Is Khan2010-02-10	$19M	$49M	2.6×	Hit
10	Tees Maar Khan2010-12-24	$10M	$22M	2.3×	Hit
11	Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai2010-07-30	$8M	$19M	2.2×	Hit
12	Anjaana Anjaani2010-09-24	$8M	$15M	1.8×	Hit
13	Khatta Meetha2010-07-23	$8M	$14M	1.8×	Hit
14	Ishqiya2010-01-29	$4M	$7M	1.7×	Hit
15	Karthik Calling Karthik2010-02-26	$3M	$4M	1.4×	Average
16	Kites2010-05-21	$18M	$14M	0.8×	Flop
17	Guzaarish2010-11-16	$16M	$13M	0.8×	Flop
18	Dhobi Ghat2010-01-21	$9M	$6M	0.6×	Flop
19	Action Replayy2010-11-05	$10M	$5M	0.5×	Flop

The method, in full

How a verdict is reached

Blockbuster: Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
Hit: Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
Average: Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
Flop: Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.

Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.