Industries / Mollywood / 2013
Mollywood hits and flops, 2013
Every Mollywood film released in 2013 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. 5 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Drishyam2013-12-19 | $725K | $11M | 14.6× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Neram2013-05-10 | $256K | $3M | 12.0× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Immanuel2013-04-04 | $512K | $2M | 3.7× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Romans2013-01-16 | $725K | $3M | 3.5× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Amen2013-03-21 | $110K | $270K | 2.5× | Hit |
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.