Bollywood movies Q1 2024 vs 2023: Shah Rukh Khan factor, Siddharth Anand’s dominance and more; check detailed numbers
Bollywood movies Q1 2024 vs 2023: The first quarter, January to March, for the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 is quite different from the CY23 in terms of business for Bollywood movies. There are some content-driven films with a smaller budget that turned out to be commercially successful. But, how much did that benefit the industry in general? Let’s find out how major Bollywood movies fared in Q1.
The first big-budget entertainer of the year was Fighter, starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor. Made with a budget of ₹250 crore, the Siddharth Anand directorial minted ₹358.83 crore. The next big numbers came from Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya, starring Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon.
Directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah, the movie collected ₹141. 25 crore. Article 370 gave tremendous Return on Investment (ROI) to its makers.
Made with ₹20 crore, the Aditya Suhas Jambhale directorial earned over ₹100 crore worldwide. Vikas Bahl’s Shaitaan, starring R Madhavan and Ajay Devgn, minted nearly ₹200 crore. The movie was made with ₹65 crore.
The entire budget of the Bollywood movies that had theatrical releases in Q1CY24 was around ₹710 crore. The actual numbers will be more since a number of movies that collected under ₹1 crore have been excluded from this list. The total business made by these major movies stands at around ₹1,040 crore (around 46.48 per cent profit).
The number is likely to go further up since movies released late in March, like Crew, are still running in theatres. The first mass entertainer of 2023, Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, minted ₹1,055 crore, more than the business of all major movies in Q1CY24. The movie was also directed by Siddharth Anand and featured Deepika Padukone, along with John
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