Thalapathy Vijay's Master and South Movies top All India hits - No Bollywood film

 

Tamil film ` Master’ of Thalapathy Vijay  is  the All India King of Box Office as per the 2021 Box office half yearly report. No Bollywood movie including Salman Khan’s Radhe figures in the top ten Box office All India list. Second top most grosser is Telegu film Pawan Kalyan’s Vakeel Saab. Majority of the top grosser are from Telegu film industry and followed by Tamil ( Dhanush Karnan ) , Malayalam’s The Priest (Mammooty) and an average Hindi hit Roohi ( Jhanvi Kapoor) .Kannada has one super hit  and two average grosser  Darshan Robert is a superhit while  Dhruv Sarja’s Pogaru-  Puneeth Rajkumar’s Yuvarathna are average hits.

260 movies in all languages were released in first months. Net Collection was Rs 969 cr. 186 movies were washouts, Only 6 movies were blockbusters and four termed hits.  The  much celebrated Bollywood had no blockbuster. Salman Khan’s Radhe with Rs 100 cr budget collected worldwide gross of Rs 18.23 cr. It had no theater release in India and was premiered on Zee 5. The overseas collection was mainly from GCC countries .

Top blockbusters – (First column shows  profit figure and last one shows budget of film)

1.	Master		223		153.93			178.75		44.25		135	Blockbuster
Uppena		84.1		70		81.6	2.5		22		Blockbuster
Krack		60.15		50.55		58.75	1.4		40		Blockbuster
Jathi Ratnalu		68		49.76		57	11		15		Blockbuster
The Priest		28.5		15.57		18.4	10.1		15		Blockbuster
Naandhi		8.5		7.14		8.3	0.2		4		Blockbuster

 

Vakeel Saab and Karnan comes in the super hit category -

Vakeel Saab	137.5	109.55	127.3	10.2	70
Karnan 52 41 48 4 40 SuperHit

Blockbusters are decided on the budget of the production and the total gross (  amount got after paying all commissions and taxes) got by Producer. Though there are hits in Tamil- Kannada- Malayalam  that gave profits, they cannot be termed blockbusters as the percentage of the profit in ratio to  the cost does not qualify for it.

As Bollywood films need a global – pan- Indian audience, no big Star films with exception of Salman Khan was released. The Navratri puja – Diwali is expected to bring back the sparkle to Bollywood.