Five Hits and One Huge Blockbuster- Story of the first quarter 2019.

The box office has been pretty good for the first three months of the year in terms of NETT collections which have been aided by a higher share of the theatrical gross due to a lower GST rate. The year so far has seen one BLOCKBUSTER in Uri - The Surgical Strike and a five HITS with Total Dhamaal, Kesari, Gully Boy, Luka Chuppi and Badla.




Uri - The Surgical Strike had an all India share of 101 crore while the likes of Total Dhamaal and Kesari will be 75 crore at best. The problem today is that films are not opening too well and its about the pickup over the weekend and with that scenario there is always going to be a limit to business as you are not even getting remotely close to utilizing the capacity as best as possible.


The bigger films are coming in the last three quarters and the bigger films have to challenging for records especially with in terms of NETT with this GST reduction.

Avengers - Endgame with set a target for those 4-5 big Hindi releases to come this year and if by the end of the year its Avengers - Endgame still at the top then that will be vert disappointing for the Hindi film industry. The top NETT grossers of theyear till date are as follows.



1. Uri - The Surgical Strike - 2,43,99,00,000(89 days)
2. Total - Dhamaal - 1,49,86,00,000 (48 days)
3. Kesari - 1,43,00,00,000 apprx (21 days)
4. Gully Boy - 1,34,17,00,000 (56 days)
5. Manikarnika - The Queen Of Jhansi - 90,81,00,000
6. Luka Chuppi - 87,37,00,000 (41 days)
7. Badla - 84,81,00,000 (34 days)
8. Romeo Akbar Walter - 27,75,00,000 apprx (6 Days)
9. The Accidental Prime Minister - 23,24,75,000
10. Junglee - 22,50,00,000 (13 days)

Uri and Gully boy were in theatres for a longer time than others.

Originally posted by: Golden-dew

Uri and Gully boy were in theatres for a longer time than others.

Well unki release bhi toh pehle huyi thi😆
and Uri was a freak, uncommon phenomenon.

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

Well unki release bhi toh pehle huyi thi 😆
and Uri was a freak, uncommon phenomenon.

Originally posted by: Golden-dew

Manikarnika released before GB there is no number of days given next to it😕in earlier days the success was gauged by the more number of days a movie played at the theatre.

Manikarnika lagta hai BOI ki fab film thi, this year.
The way they were praising it when Gully Boy released and rooting for it to reach 100 crores, but huwa nahi🤣...




Pehle number of days ka matlab hota tha ki even during the 20th week, shows houseful hote hai.
Aajkal only one show in a day, so lamba chale toh accha hai, but paise nahi late.
Aur aaj kal paise ziyada important hai.

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

Manikarnika lagta hai BOI ki fab film thi, this year.
The way they were praising it when Gully Boy released and rooting for it to reach 100 crores, but huwa nahi 🤣...




Pehle number of days ka matlab hota tha ki even during the 20th week, shows houseful hote hai.
Aajkal only one show in a day, so lamba chale toh accha hai, but paise nahi late.
Aur aaj kal paise ziyada important hai.

Originally posted by: Golden-dew

BOI was furiously rooting for Manikarnika and TD😆

I agree the only movie I watched 6 week houseful on a weekday was Padmavat.

yes it was funny as hell, atleast Total Dhamaal ne laj rakh di warna Kangu mata ki nationalism encashment toh kuch khas chali nahi 😆

Inka RR kabhi khatam nahi hoga

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

yes it was funny as hell, atleast Total Dhamaal ne laj rakh di warna Kangu mata ki nationalism encashment toh kuch khas chali nahi 😆

Originally posted by: Golden-dew

Actually they had no special love for Manikarnika..it is only after GB released that they started jai jai kar of it par dekho iss article mein bhi number of days to likha hi nahi😆and I thought it did 100 cr but here this article shows it was 90.

nah they were soft on the movie from the beginning.