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[[File:S. S. Rajamouli at the trailer launch of Baahubali.jpg|thumb|140px|[[S. S. Rajamouli]]'s ''[[Baahubali 2: The Conclusion]]'' is the second highest grossing Indian film to date and he is the first Indian director to achieve the feat of grossing over than 1000 crore rupees]]
The following list shows India's top 15 highest-grossing films, which include films from all the Indian languages.
The following list shows India's top 15 highest-grossing films, which include films from all the Indian languages.
This is a ranking of the highest grossing Indian films which includes films from various languages based on the conservative global box office estimates as reported by reputable sources. There is no official tracking of figures and sites publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.[1]
During the 1940s cinema in South India accounted for nearly half of India's cinema halls[2] which had grown to 75% of all film revenues in India as of 2009.[3] Indian films have been screened in markets around the world since the early 20th century.[2] As of 2003, there are markets in over 90 countries where films from India are screened.[4] During the first decade of the 21st century, there was a steady rise in the ticket price, a tripling in the number of theaters and an increase in the number of prints of a film being released, which led to a large increase in the box office collections.[5]
The figures are not adjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, estimates for the 1975 film Sholay reach as high as ₹300 crore (US$36 million) in 2009.[6][7]
Global gross figures
The following list shows India's top 15 highest-grossing films, which include films from all the Indian languages.
^Box office gross values of ₹6–6.75 billion were reported for Kabali in the first 13 days by several organisations including Financial Express and Indian Express,[17][18] which were more than double the estimates made by other sources.[19]International Business Times (IBT) and Firstpost criticized these estimates as inflated, explaining the discrepancy as due in part to the addition of "pre-release business" figures, such as music and satellite rights sales of ₹2 billion,[20] being factored into the box office sales totals.[19]Firstpost wrote, "More conservative estimates put Kabali’s collections at around Rs [3 billion] from worldwide ticket sales."[20] IBT's analysts estimated the film's worldwide gross total of its first 13 days at around ₹3.5 billion (US$42 million).[21] Figures released in December 2016 by Financial Express indicated an estimated domestic gross of ₹215 crore and an international gross of ₹262 crore, which total ₹477 crore.[15] A figure of USD$77 million released by Forbes in May 2017 converted to approximately ₹493–499 crore.[16]
The Hindi language film industry, based in Mumbai, India, is frequently known as Bollywood.[34] Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.[35][36][37]
Malayalam cinema is a part of Indian cinema based in Kerala dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language. It is sometimes known by the nickname "Mollywood" by certain media outlets. These are the top 10 highest grossing Malayalam films.
The Marathi cinema industry produces films in the Marathi language and is based in the state of Maharashtra, India. India's first full-length film, Raja Harishchandra, was released in 1913 in Marathi.[66] It is sometimes known by the nickname "M-town" by media.
Tamil cinema, the Tamil language film industry is based in the Kodambakkam neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is sometimes colloquially known as "Kollywood", a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Worldwide gross figures (including dubbed versions) are given below.
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†indicates that at least one film in the series is playing in the week commencing 06 September 2024.
^* Khanna, Amit (2003), "The Future of Hindi Film Business", Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema: historical record, the business and its future, narrative forms, analysis of the medium, milestones, biographies, Encyclopædia Britannica (India) Private Limited, ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. p 158
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