Industries / Kollywood / 2017
Kollywood hits and flops, 2017
Every Kollywood 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. 8 of the year's releases have both figures.
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Other years
| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Aruvi2017-12-15 | $154K | $5M | 35.0× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Vikram Vedha2017-07-21 | $2M | $9M | 5.5× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Maanagaram2017-03-10 | $768K | $2M | 3.0× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Velaikkaran2017-12-22 | $5M | $13M | 2.5× | Hit |
| 5 |  Mersal2017-10-18 | $18M | $38M | 2.1× | Hit |
| 6 |  Bairavaa2017-01-12 | $9M | $17M | 1.9× | Hit |
| 7 |  Spyder2017-09-27 | $18M | $23M | 1.3× | Average |
| 8 |  Vivegam2017-08-24 | $18M | $19M | 1.1× | Average |
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.