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Mollywood hits and flops, 2015

Every Mollywood film released in 2015 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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#FilmCostTookReturnVerdict
1Premam2015-05-29$623K$11M18.2×Blockbuster
2Oru Vadakkan Selfie2015-03-27$623K$4M6.2×Blockbuster
3Ennu Ninte Moideen2015-09-18$2M$9M4.7×Blockbuster
4Bhaskar The Rascal2015-04-14$935K$4M4.2×Blockbuster
5Charlie2015-12-24$2M$6M3.1×Blockbuster
6Loham2015-08-20$1M$2M2.1×Hit
7Mili2015-01-23$740K$833K1.1×Average
8Amar Akbar Anthony2015-10-16$10M$8M0.8×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.