As a reference it shows which hits were more attended. Regardless he won the top B.O. spot for 3 years - not 1.
BOI changes designations (as well as box office and budgets) all the time to benefit their favorites and downgrade those out of favor.. Just look at the way they've gone after 83 as if it's an affront to Bollywood and not a well made and reviewed film that was over budgeted for it's subject matter. The budget is in dispute but they've gone for the highest rumored one to make it look as bad as possible.
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/bollywood/899167/jodhaa-akbar-emerges-superhit
Jodhaa Akbar Emerges Superhit
Source: BOI
Date: 25th March, 2008
After facing many problems with its release and sections of the media wanting to see it fall flat on its face, Jodhaa Akbar is having the last laugh as it emerges a Superhit film.
Even after many steady weeks many of the film's detractors were calling is a success but grudgingly by claiming the reason was that it had no competition and many open weeks. But it seems that Jodhaa Akbar has also answered these detractors with the competition of box office record breaker Race as it has all other detractors over the last five weeks.
The sixth weekend saw Jodhaa Akbar notching up business of 1.80 crore nett with 1.60 crore nett coming from the hindi version and this was with the competition of Race which can be called the biggest opener ever in terms of volume of business over the first three days. Jodhaa Akbar has shown less than 50% drop despite the mega competition from Race. The film was showing at just 2/3 shows at multiplexes and some single screens and the occupancy was excellent at 70-80%.
It is now heading for final business of 62-64 crore nett(hindi version only) without Rajasthan. If the film had managed a clean release with no multiplex issues and no bans we may have had another 70 crore grosser.
Interesting but I think that just means that the BO collections were not reported right at first, it just earned 54 crore overall, not 64. Maybe they overestimated the final overall gross. Also like I said I looked up other sites and they also reported it as Semi hit (one of them even said it was average).
I don't think BOI has any real favourites. I mean they repeatedly pushed Ranveer as this great star when Simmba was a blockbuster and now they are trashing 83. They just like successful movies even if they suck. 83 is a well made movie in my opinion but its a big flop considering the huge budget and also Ranveer's star power (not even 100 crore these days is not enough to be a real hit even with smaller budgets like Akshay movies).
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