Sandalwood hits and flops, 2012

Every Sandalwood 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. 11 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Dandupalya2012-06-29	$562K	$5M	8.3×	Blockbuster
2	Addhuri2012-06-15	$843K	$5M	5.6×	Blockbuster
3	Drama2012-11-01	$749K	$2M	3.2×	Blockbuster
4	Rambo2012-09-07	$375K	$936K	2.5×	Hit
5	Katari Veera Surasundarangi2012-05-10	$2M	$3M	1.8×	Hit
6	Chingari2012-02-12	$1M	$2M	1.7×	Hit
7	Anna Bond2012-05-01	$1M	$2M	1.7×	Hit
8	Kraanthiveera Sangolli Raayanna2012-11-01	$4M	$7M	1.6×	Hit
9	Kalpana2012-09-28	$1M	$2M	1.6×	Hit
10	Godfather2012-07-27	$843K	$1M	1.6×	Hit
11	Arakshaka2012-01-26	$749K	$150K	0.2×	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.