Industries / Tollywood / 2004
Tollywood hits and flops, 2004
Every Tollywood film released in 2004 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. 3 of the year's releases have both figures.
1blockbuster1hit0average1flop
| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Arya2004-05-07 | $900K | $7M | 7.4× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Samba2004-06-09 | $2M | $4M | 2.0× | Hit |
| 3 |  Andhrawala2004-01-01 | $3M | $2M | 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.