Raj Kapoor’s Awara crossing Rs 1 crore, Aamir Khan’s PK crossing Rs 300 crore, Prabhas’ Baahubali 2 crossing Rs 1000 crore and more box office MILESTONES of Indian cinema – FilmyVoice

Hits come and go, flops come and go, superhits, blockbuster, disasters, above common grossers – all of them come and go. However, very, only a few films come as soon as in a lifetime that change the face of a nation’s cinematic panorama without end. And no quantity of glowing crucial evaluations can obtain this. One and one simple, unquestionable issue, set in stone for all ages creates a never-before-seen cinematic milestone – the box-office. And over the course of a number of a long time of Indian cinema, chronicling each movie trade of the nation in each language, there have been a handful of such films (it is not on daily basis {that a} milestone film comes alongside) which have rewritten historical past on the home field workplace.

In all, there have been simply eleven milestone films over seven a long time on the Indian field workplace (we have taken seven a long time because it’s nearly not possible to collate figures earlier than the 50s, and it additionally is smart to contemplate the 1-crore mark as the primary milestone, which solely started from 1951 onward).

The 80s was the worst decade for milestones, with not a single movie setting a brand new landmark, whereas the 2010s has been the most effective decade to date with as many as 4 films creating new milestones. Hum Aapke Hain Koun, launched in 1994, and 2017’s Baahubali 2 proved to be the most important landmark jumps so far as collections go. Additionally, 9 of the ten films belong to Bollywood, reinforcing the dominance of the Hindi movie trade within the nation whereas Aamir Khan isn’t solely the one actor with a number of movies on the record, however with as many as 4 of them, underlining his goodwill with the viewers throughout demographics.

With out additional ado, listed here are the milestone films which set completely different landmarks for Indian cinema, together with the yr they launched in and their collections on the field workplace (Notice: It goes with out saying that every one these movies are all-time blockbuster):

Awara (1951) – Rs. 1.25 crore nett [1-crore landmark]
Mughal-E-Azam (1960) – Rs. 5.50 crore nett [5-crore landmark]
Sholay (1975) – Rs. 15 crore nett [15-crore landmark; no Indian movies touched the 10-crore landmark before it]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) – Rs. 72.47 crore nett [50-crore landmark; no Indian movie touched the 25-crore landmark before it]
Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) – Rs. 76.88 crore nett [75-crore landmark]
Ghajini (2008) – Rs. 114.10 crore nett [100-crore landmark]
3 Idiots (2009) – Rs. 201.37 crore nett [200-crore landmark; no Indian movie touched the 150-crore landmark before it]
Dhoom 3 (2013) – Rs. 284.27 crore nett [250-crore landmark]
PK (2014) – Rs. 340.80 crore nett [300-crore landmark]
Baahubali (2015) – Rs. 420.05 crore nett [400-crore landmark]
Baahubali 2 (2017) – Rs. 1115.60 crore nett [1000-crore landmark; no Indian movie touched any landmark between 500 to 900 crore before it]

So, which would be the subsequent Indian film to set a brand new milestone on the field workplace ergo the 1200-crore milestone, and, extra importantly, can any movie break Baahubali 2’s report within the foreseeable future? Fingers crossed…

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