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Delhi Belly

Name: Delhi Belly
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: 2011-07-01
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vir Das, Shenaz Treasury, Poorna Jagannathan

Bollywood20111h 42mHindiTop 65% of Bollywood budgets

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136th of 316 in Bollywood

Reported gross: 52
Return on budget: 69
Audience rating: 80
Momentum: 19

Out-grossed 52% of Bollywood releases with reported figures ($19M).
Returned 3.8× its budget, against an industry median of 2.5×.
Momentum in the 19th percentile.
Audience rating 7.1 from 232 votes, the 80th percentile.

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Cost: $5M
Took: $19M

Against a Bollywood median of 2.5×, so this one returned 1.5 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

Three unsuspecting, average guys find themselves on the hit list of one of India's most-powerful crime syndicates.

Released: 1 July 2011
Runtime: 1h 42m
Language: Hindi
Industry: Bollywood

Top billedAll 23 credits

Imran KhanTashi Dorjee Lhatoo
Kunaal Roy KapurNitin Berry
Vir DasArup
Shenaz TreasurySonia Mehra
Poorna JagannathanMenaka Vashisht
Raju KherZubin Mehra

Made by

Director: Abhinay Deo
Screenplay: Akshat Verma
Original Music Composer: Ram Sampath
Director of Photography: Jason West
Producer: Aamir Khan, Jim Furgele, Ronnie Screwvala, Kiran Rao

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