Industries / Mollywood / 2025
Mollywood hits and flops, 2025
Every Mollywood film released in 2025 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. 11 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Eko2025-11-21 | $585K | $6M | 10.0× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra2025-08-28 | $4M | $35M | 8.7× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Thudarum2025-04-23 | $3M | $27M | 8.4× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Rekhachithram2025-01-09 | $877K | $7M | 7.6× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Ponman2025-01-30 | $351K | $2M | 6.1× | Blockbuster |
| 6 |  Sarvam Maya2025-12-25 | $4M | $18M | 5.0× | Blockbuster |
| 7 |  Officer on Duty2025-02-20 | $2M | $6M | 4.2× | Blockbuster |
| 8 |  Narivetta2025-05-16 | $1M | $3M | 2.9× | Hit |
| 9 |  L2: Empuraan2025-03-27 | $19M | $31M | 1.6× | Hit |
| 10 |  Identity2025-01-02 | $1M | $2M | 1.5× | Average |
| 11 |  Pravinkoodu Shappu2025-01-16 | $2M | $978K | 0.6× | 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.