Industries / Mollywood / 2016
Mollywood hits and flops, 2016
Every Mollywood film released in 2016 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. 9 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Oppam2016-09-08 | $1M | $10M | 9.7× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Happy Wedding2016-05-20 | $253K | $2M | 8.5× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Pulimurugan2016-10-07 | $4M | $29M | 7.8× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Action Hero Biju2016-02-04 | $744K | $5M | 6.4× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Maheshinte Prathikaaram2016-02-05 | $521K | $3M | 5.1× | Blockbuster |
| 6 |  Anuraga Karikkin Vellam2016-07-07 | $670K | $3M | 4.9× | Blockbuster |
| 7 |  Jacob's Kingdom of Heaven2016-04-08 | $110K | $520K | 4.7× | Blockbuster |
| 8 |  Thoppil Joppan2016-10-07 | $818K | $3M | 4.0× | Blockbuster |
| 9 |  Aanandam2016-10-21 | $595K | $2M | 3.8× | Blockbuster |
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.