The year saw 201 releases and 21 out of these 201 releases were in plus, 11 managed to do good business while a further 10 saw reasonable business. Last year had also seen a similar number of films do well but there were bigger hits overall with Dhoom 3, Chennai Express, Krrish 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Aashiqui 2 all emerging blockbusters while there was only PK and Kick this year. PK was easily the biggest hit of the year followed by Kick.
The biggest disasters of 2013 were Gori Tere Pyaar Mein and Zanjeer while this year this unwanted tag belonged to Happy Ending, Ungli and Raja Natwarlal.
The total business for 2014 will fall around 50 crore short of last year as December 2014 became the first month to go over 400 crore nett and took the year close to the 2013 mark. The cumulative nett gross for 2014 will finish at over 2725 crore while 2013 had grossed 2790 crore. The classifications of films in 2014 are as follows.
All Time Blockbuster
1. PK (expected share - 165 cr)
Blockbuster
2. Kick (share - 118 cr)
Super Hit
3. Happy New Year (share - 97 cr)
4. Singham Returns (share - 77.5 cr)
5. Ek Villain (share - 50.50 cr)
6. 2 States (share - 48.75 cr)
Hit
7. Holiday - A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (share - 56 cr)
8. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (share - 35 cr)
9. Queen (share - 25.75 cr)
10. Heropanti (share - 25 cr)
11. Ragini MMS 2 (share - 23.50 cr)
Semi Hit
12. Bang Bang (share - 75 c)
13. Jai Ho (share - 58 cr)
14. Gunday (share - 37.75 cr)
15. Mary Kom (29.50 cr)
16. Main Tera Hero (share - 26 cr)
17. Yaariyan (share 19 cr)
Average
18. Haider (share - 23.50 cr)
19. Hasee Toh Phasee (share - 17.50 cr)
20. Mardaani (share - 16.75 cr)
21. Hate Story (share - 11.50 cr)
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