Industries / Tollywood / 2019

Tollywood hits and flops, 2019

Every Tollywood film released in 2019 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. 23 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya2019-06-21	$568K	$3M	5.0×	Blockbuster
2	iSmart Shankar2019-07-18	$2M	$10M	4.6×	Blockbuster
3	F2: Fun and Frustration2019-01-12	$4M	$19M	4.5×	Blockbuster
4	Brochevarevarura2019-06-28	$710K	$3M	4.0×	Blockbuster
5	Majili2019-04-05	$3M	$10M	3.2×	Blockbuster
6	Maharshi2019-05-09	$9M	$27M	3.1×	Blockbuster
7	Lakshmi's NTR2019-03-29	$355K	$994K	2.8×	Hit
8	Prati Roju Pandaage2019-12-20	$4M	$9M	2.6×	Hit
9	Venky Mama2019-12-13	$5M	$10M	2.1×	Hit
10	Jersey2019-04-19	$4M	$7M	2.1×	Hit
11	Oh! Baby2019-07-04	$3M	$5M	2.1×	Hit
12	Mallesham2019-06-21	$355K	$710K	2.0×	Hit
13	Raja Vaaru Rani Gaaru2019-11-29	$180K	$360K	2.0×	Hit
14	Nani's Gang Leader2019-09-13	$6M	$11M	1.9×	Hit
15	Gaddalakonda Ganesh2019-09-19	$4M	$6M	1.8×	Hit
16	Arjun Suravaram2019-03-29	$1M	$3M	1.8×	Hit
17	Rakshasudu2019-07-18	$3M	$5M	1.6×	Hit
18	1182019-02-28	$2M	$3M	1.6×	Hit
19	Vinaya Vidheya Rama2019-01-11	$10M	$13M	1.3×	Average
20	Evaru2019-08-15	$1M	$1M	1.3×	Average
21	Saaho2019-08-29	$50M	$62M	1.2×	Average
22	Yatra2019-02-08	$2M	$2M	1.2×	Average
23	Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy2019-09-27	$36M	$34M	1.0×	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.