Industries / Tollywood / 2018
Tollywood hits and flops, 2018
Every Tollywood film released in 2018 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. 16 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Geetha Govindam2018-08-15 | $731K | $19M | 26.4× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  RX 1002018-07-12 | $292K | $4M | 13.1× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  C/o Kancharapalem2018-09-07 | $83K | $1M | 12.3× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Chalo2018-02-02 | $439K | $4M | 8.0× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi?2018-06-29 | $292K | $2M | 6.0× | Blockbuster |
| 6 |  Goodachari2018-08-03 | $877K | $4M | 4.2× | Blockbuster |
| 7 |  Rangasthalam2018-03-30 | $8M | $32M | 4.0× | Blockbuster |
| 8 |  Mahanati2018-05-09 | $4M | $13M | 3.5× | Blockbuster |
| 9 |  Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava2018-10-11 | $9M | $28M | 3.2× | Blockbuster |
| 10 |  Bharat Ane Nenu2018-04-20 | $11M | $33M | 3.0× | Hit |
| 11 |  Bhaagamathie2018-01-26 | $4M | $10M | 2.7× | Hit |
| 12 |  Hello Guru Prema Kosame2018-10-18 | $2M | $5M | 2.4× | Hit |
| 13 |  Naa Peru Surya, Naa Illu India2018-05-04 | $8M | $15M | 1.8× | Hit |
| 14 |  Sammohanam2018-06-15 | $2M | $2M | 1.3× | Average |
| 15 |  Agnyaathavaasi2018-01-09 | $10M | $9M | 0.9× | Flop |
| 16 |  Savyasachi2018-11-02 | $4M | $3M | 0.7× | 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.