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Tollywood hits and flops, 2022

Every Tollywood film released in 2022 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. 26 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Love2022-06-01	$636K	$13M	21.0×	Blockbuster
2	Karthikeya 22022-08-13	$2M	$15M	8.1×	Blockbuster
3	Sita Ramam2022-08-05	$3M	$13M	4.0×	Blockbuster
4	Dhamaka2022-12-23	$4M	$14M	3.1×	Blockbuster
5	HIT: The 2nd Case2022-12-01	$2M	$5M	2.8×	Hit
6	Bangarraju2022-01-14	$3M	$8M	2.6×	Hit
7	RRR2022-03-25	$70M	$171M	2.4×	Hit
8	F3: Fun and Frustration2022-05-27	$8M	$16M	2.1×	Hit
9	Major2022-06-03	$4M	$8M	2.0×	Hit
10	Bimbisara2022-08-05	$5M	$8M	1.6×	Hit
11	18 Pages2022-12-23	$2M	$3M	1.6×	Hit
12	Ante... Sundaraniki!2022-06-10	$4M	$6M	1.5×	Hit
13	Alluri2022-09-23	$636K	$982K	1.5×	Hit
14	Yashoda2022-11-11	$4M	$5M	1.2×	Average
15	GodFather2022-10-05	$13M	$13M	1.1×	Average
16	Sammathame2022-06-24	$600K	$680K	1.1×	Average
17	Pakka Commercial2022-07-01	$2M	$2M	1.0×	Average
18	Viraata Parvam2022-06-17	$2M	$2M	0.9×	Flop
19	Radhe Shyam2022-03-10	$35M	$23M	0.6×	Flop
20	Liger2022-08-25	$16M	$8M	0.5×	Flop
21	The Warriorr2022-07-14	$9M	$5M	0.5×	Flop
22	Ghani2022-04-07	$5M	$3M	0.5×	Flop
23	Ginna2022-10-21	$3M	$1M	0.4×	Flop
24	Sebastian P.C. 5242022-03-04	$840K	$240K	0.3×	Flop
25	Thank You2022-07-21	$5M	$1M	0.2×	Flop
26	Nenu Meeku Baaga Kavalsinavaadini2022-09-16	$840K	$60K	0.1×	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.