| The inflation adjusted data on this site is from 1995 onwards with Hum Aapke Hain Kaun included as it did most of its business in 1995. There are three moments in Hindi film history which resulted in a big jump in box office collections. 1. Release of colour films 2. Release of Sholay (1975) 3. Release of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) All the above moments practically doubled the business of films. So business of films before/after the events above is segregated to give a better picture of the box office scenario. The business prior to 1995 is not adjusted to inflation because the business of films was not restricted to one year due to staggered releases and re-runs so therefore it becomes impossible to give them a ticket price. For eg Mother India (1957) gave a distributor share of 5 crore but over 30 years and Sholay (1975) gave 22 crore share over a similar period. Even many lesser successful films of the time had release patterns like one circuit release in 1968, then few other circuits in 1970, others in 1972 then re-runs in 76,78,81, etc. As there was not a threat from Video/TV films could be release this way, it was around 1985 that majority films started getting all India releases on one day. Even in recent history (1990) a Ghayal (1990) and Dil (1990) are released on the same day and over the first six months Dil (1990) is around 25-30% ahead but looking at business ten years later in 2000 it is similar as Ghayal (1990) was hugely successful in re-runs. This is why it is difficult to adjust films prior to 1995 and adjusting to the year of release gives a false picture. The attempt is to compare like for like. For our decade charts, the films prior to 1995 are simply given a 6% increase in ticket prices every year and marked up to the last year in the decade and when decades are segregated due to a big change in the box office scenario then they are marked up to the last year in the section. The ticket price adjuster that is used for inflation on this site is as follows. The Indian prices are Gross and not Nett (Earlier this site had inflation adjusted figures done with nett collections against gross prices which was not correct). Basically with the release of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) ticket prices went up hugely and remained at a similar lever for next few years and then started having big jumps from 2003 onwards as the multiplex revolution started and continue to go as single screens shut down and many new multiplexes are opened every year. | Year | India | UK | USA | ROW | | 1994 | INR 35 | 3.58 | $4.08 | $4.98 | | 1995 | INR 35 | 3.62 | $4.35 | $5.10 | | 1996 | INR 36 | 3.66 | $4.42 | $5.19 | | 1997 | INR 36 | 3.77 | $4.59 | $5.31 | | 1998 | INR 37 | 3.83 | $4.69 | $5.57 | | 1999 | INR 38 | 3.90 | $5.06 | $5.79 | | 2000 | INR 39 | 4.02 | $5.39 | $6.02 | | 2001 | INR 40 | 4.14 | $5.65 | $6.23 | | 2002 | INR 42 | 4.29 | $5.80 | $6.40 | | 2003 | INR 46 | 4.44 | $6.03 | $6.59 | | 2004 | INR 51 | 4.49 | $6.21 | $6.78 | | 2005 | INR 58 | 4.71 | $6.41 | $6.98 | | 2006 | INR 67 | 4.87 | $6.55 | $7.27 | | 2007 | INR 73 | 5.04 | $6.88 | $7.50 | | 2008 | INR 80 | 5.29 | $7.18 | $7.86 | | 2009 | INR 88 | 5.42 | $7.46 | $8.34 | | 2010 | INR | | $ | $ | The ticket price adjuster gives an approx idea of how many tickets were sold if we divide the ticket price against gross figure. Eg 2006 gross 70 crore/67 (ticket price) = 1.04 crore. This means 1.04 crore tickets sold at the box office. But as the ticket prices in India vary a lot depending its not 100% accurate but gives a rough idea.. For eg a film like Gadar (2001) which did much more from small centres than normal will have a price lower than INR 40, a Hum Aapke Hain Kaun will be around the National average as it did not have lopsided business while a Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge will be about 10% higher than national average as its business was slightly lopsided towards big centres. The multiplex heavy films will have higher ticket prices for their respective years, it could 40% higher than national average. Recent films like Wanted (2009) and Veer (2010) which do most of their business in single screens will also have much lower average ticket price in their respective years, it could be 35% lower than the national average. A multiplex film like Wake Up Sid and Paa will have average ticket prices which are around 35% higher than national average as 90% business is from multiplexes. Basically in India, films will have varying average ticket rates depending on where business is coming from but this is very hard to work out so the website works on the normal year to year basis to simplify everything. An example of varying approx all India average ticket rates can be seen below to give more of an understanding of average ticket rates of films can vary even when released in same year. | Film | Year | National Average Ticket Rate | Probable Average Ticket Rate | | Hum Aapke Hain Kaun | 1994 | 35 | 35 | | Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | 1995 | 35 | 38 | | Raja Hindustani | 1996 | 36 | 30 | | Gadar Ek Prem Katha | 2001 | 40 | 32 | | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham | 2001 | 40 | 46 | | Koi Mil Gaya | 2003 | 46 | 46 | | Veer Zaara | 2004 | 51 | 51 | | Rang De Basanti | 2006 | 67 | 78 | | Krissh | 2006 | 67 | 58 | | Dhoom 2 | 2006 | 67 | 60 | | Om Shanti Om | 2007 | 73 | 73 | | Welcome | 2007 | 73 | 67 | | Chak De India | 2007 | 73 | 95 | | Taare Zameen Par | 2007 | 73 | 100 | | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | 2008 | 80 | 75 | | Ghajini | 2008 | 80 | 70 | | Love Aaj Kal | 2009 | 88 | 105 | | Wanted | 2009 | 88 | 65 | | Wake Up Sid | 2009 | 88 | 120 | | Three Idiots | 2009 | 88 | 105 | There is a section the site which gives the top twenty most watched films in the history of Hindi cinema of the modern era (after 1995) by our calculations but to do this with every film is very hard and to apply this to films before 1995 is even harder as then you have to know when the re-runs were, which circuit, average ticket rate of circuit and to put all this together is near impossible. Vague estimates for inflation data prior to 1995 can be done but the margin of error can be 50% which is a huge number and therefore it is not being done. It may be done in future but exact dates of when business was done will have to be found and not lifetime industry estimates which are up on the website at the moment. The figures for India are the approx national average ticket prices while for rest of the world the it has been done as to which country contributed at that time and then averaged out. The figures for UK and USA are as per the Film Industry Associations in the respective countries. | 
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