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Jan 18, 2013

Top 10 highest grossing Bollywood movies of 2012


Last year in 2012, Bollywood film industry has seen many good movies. It was also the year in which Akshay Kumar back to his career after a long flop list of movies. Here is a list of highest grossing Bollywood movies of 2012 starting from lowest to highest.

Note- This list is based on total grossing including India and overseas. 

10- Son of Sardaar:- Son of Sardaar or SOS was directed by Ashwni Dhir  starring Ajay Devgan, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt and Juhi Chawla. It earned about INR 8.50 crore on its opening day. It grossed about INR 88.35 crore in India and INR 16.48 crore overseas.  Total collection of this movie is INR 104.83 crore.

9- Bol Bachchan:- Bol Bachchan is an action comedy film starring Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai. It had grossed INR 100 crore in India and INR 21.98 crore in overseas. Total grossing of movie is 121.98 crore.   

8- Housefull 2:- Housefull 2 is a multi-starrer comedy film and sequel to Housefull. Akshay Kumar and John Abraham are lead character while other characters are Ritesh Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade, Asin Thottumkal, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and Boman Irani. Housefull 2 earned INR 113.88 crore in India and INR 18.02 crore overseas. Finally its worldwide collection is INR 131.90 crore.

7- Talaash:- Talaash : The answer lies within is on rank 7, starring Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor Khan. Although as expected, it did not earn much money if compare to Aamir’s previous movie 3 Idiots, even then it was able to earned INR 90.25 crore in India and INR 46.70 crore overseas. Finally its total collection is INR 136.95 crore and secured 7th position.

6- Barfi:- Barfi is a must watch movie of 2012 describing the love triangle of a deaf and mute boy, a girl suffering from mental disorder and another girl. Barfi is starred by Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and lleana D’Cruz. Film received a good response and was praised for acting of Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. It earned INR 106 crore in India and INR 34.34 crore overseas making a total of INR 140.34 crore.                                    

5- Jab Tak Hai Jaan:- Late Yash Chopra’s last film as director Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a romantic drama film featuring Shahrukh Khan, Kaitrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in lead role. According to Box Office India, film earned INR 101.25 crore in India. Jab Tak Hai Jaan was the highest grossing movie overseas of 2012 with INR 74.50 crore. Finally movie has total collection of INR 175.75 crore.

4- Agneepath:- Agneepath is a remake of Agneepath (1990) and starring Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra. It is one of the highest grossing Bollywood movie in India and overseas. Agneepath grossed INR 121.06 crore in India and INR 32.98 overseas. Total grossinf of Agneepath is INR 193 crore worldwide according to Boxofficeindia.

3- Dabang 2:- Although released in last month of December (21 Dec, 2012), Dabang 2 able to secured 2nd position in the list. Dabang 2 is sequel to Dabang (2010). Dabang 2 features Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha in lead role. Movie broke many previous records. Film earned nett INR 19 crore on its opening day and became the highest grossing opening for non-holiday. Within three day of releasing, film collected INR 58.26 crore which is a new record beating ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ of same year. According to Boxofficeindia, Dabang 2 is second highest grossing film of 2012 (in India) within 14 days of its release. Total nett of film as on 4 jan 2013 in India is INR 149.78 crore and INR 49.45 crore overseas (overseas nett is expected by boxofficeinindia). Finally till now movie had grossed about INR 199 crore worldwide.

2- Rowdy Rathore:- After so many flop movies, finally Akshay Kumar gave a blockbuster movie (Housefull 2 was a multi-starrer movie). Movie grossed INR 133 crore in India and INR 18.78 crore internationally. Finally movie had grossed INR 201 crore worldwide.  

1- Ek Tha Tiger- Ek Tha Tiger starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif is second highest grossing Bollywood movie of all time (behind 3 Idiots). It is also one of the two Bollywood movie which cross INR 300 crore line. Film collected INR 186 crores in India and its distributor share was INR 106 crore. Film collected INR 72.40 crore overseas. Finally its worldwide grossing is INR 307 crore.  


Nett- net profit
This list is based on worldwide grossing. So it may be different from other lists on internet.



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