Industries / Bollywood / 2016

Bollywood hits and flops, 2016

Every Bollywood film released in 2016 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	Dangal2016-12-21	$10M	$310M	29.8×	Blockbuster
2	Sultan2016-07-06	$10M	$93M	8.9×	Blockbuster
3	Airlift2016-01-22	$4M	$33M	7.4×	Blockbuster
4	Neerja2016-02-19	$3M	$20M	6.8×	Blockbuster
5	Dear Zindagi2016-11-23	$3M	$21M	6.3×	Blockbuster
6	Rustom2016-08-12	$6M	$32M	5.3×	Blockbuster
7	Kapoor & Sons2016-03-18	$4M	$22M	5.3×	Blockbuster
8	Pink2016-09-16	$4M	$23M	5.2×	Blockbuster
9	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil2016-10-27	$7M	$36M	4.8×	Blockbuster
10	Baaghi2016-04-29	$5M	$19M	3.8×	Blockbuster
11	Udta Punjab2016-06-17	$5M	$15M	2.9×	Hit
12	Housefull 32016-06-03	$13M	$29M	2.2×	Hit
13	Dishoom2016-07-29	$8M	$18M	2.2×	Hit
14	Wazir2016-01-07	$5M	$12M	2.2×	Hit
15	M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story2016-09-30	$15M	$32M	2.1×	Hit
16	Raman Raghav 2.02016-06-24	$521K	$1M	2.0×	Hit
17	Fan2016-04-14	$16M	$27M	1.7×	Hit
18	Te3n2016-06-10	$5M	$5M	1.0×	Flop
19	Sanam Teri Kasam2016-02-05	$3M	$2M	0.8×	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.