Industries / Mollywood / 2012
Mollywood hits and flops, 2012
Every Mollywood film released in 2012 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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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Thattathin Marayathu2012-07-06 | $562K | $4M | 6.3× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Ordinary2012-03-17 | $618K | $4M | 6.1× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Diamond Necklace2012-05-04 | $655K | $2M | 3.6× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  22 Female Kottayam2012-04-13 | $400K | $500K | 1.3× | Average |
| 5 |  Mallu Singh2012-05-04 | $1M | $2M | 1.2× | Average |
| 6 |  Grandmaster2012-05-03 | $120K | $130K | 1.1× | Average |
| 7 |  Bachelor Party2012-07-15 | $2M | $2M | 1.0× | Average |
| 8 |  Spanish Masala2012-01-20 | $3M | $861K | 0.3× | Flop |
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.