Industries / Bollywood / 2017

Bollywood hits and flops, 2017

Every Bollywood film released in 2017 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	Secret Superstar2017-10-19	$2M	$132M	57.2×	Blockbuster
2	Hindi Medium2017-05-19	$2M	$49M	23.0×	Blockbuster
3	Kaabil2017-01-25	$5M	$32M	5.9×	Blockbuster
4	Mom2017-07-07	$5M	$27M	5.9×	Blockbuster
5	Badrinath Ki Dulhania2017-03-10	$6M	$31M	5.1×	Blockbuster
6	Lipstick Under My Burkha2017-07-21	$922K	$4M	4.4×	Blockbuster
7	Tiger Zinda Hai2017-12-18	$20M	$87M	4.3×	Blockbuster
8	Judwaa 22017-09-29	$10M	$35M	3.5×	Blockbuster
9	Raees2017-01-25	$13M	$43M	3.2×	Blockbuster
10	Bareilly Ki Barfi2017-08-17	$3M	$9M	2.9×	Hit
11	Jolly LLB 22017-02-09	$12M	$30M	2.5×	Hit
12	Golmaal Again2017-10-19	$22M	$48M	2.2×	Hit
13	Naam Shabana2017-03-31	$4M	$9M	2.2×	Hit
14	Ittefaq2017-11-03	$4M	$9M	2.0×	Hit
15	Jab Harry Met Sejal2017-08-04	$14M	$24M	1.7×	Hit
16	Newton2017-09-22	$2M	$2M	1.5×	Hit
17	Toilet: A Love Story2017-08-11	$12M	$14M	1.2×	Average
18	Jagga Jasoos2017-07-14	$20M	$13M	0.7×	Flop
19	Trapped2017-03-17	$768K	$542K	0.7×	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.