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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]p
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).[6][7]
Global gross figures
The following list shows India's top 15 highest-grossing films, which include films from all the Indian languages.
The Bengali languagefilm industry is centered in the Tollygunge neighborhood of the city of Kolkata, West Bengal and has been known by the nickname Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood , since 1932.[17] A 2014 report stated that while there were about 100 films created in Tollywood every year, fewer than ten percent were breaking even financially.[18]
The Hindi language film industry, based in Mumbai, India, is frequently known as Bollywood.[24] Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.[25][26][27]
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.[55] It is sometimes known by the nickname "M-town" by media.
Tamil cinema, the Tamil language film industry based in the Kodambakkam neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, accrues the second-largest overseas market after Bollywood.[74] It is sometimes colloquially known as "Kollywood", a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Tamil films are released in the Tamil-speaking nations of Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. They also release across the world in countries containing Tamil diaspora populations in Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America. In the Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, Tamil films are directly released in Tamil but in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, they are generally officially dubbed in Telugu.[75] Tamil films released in North India are often officially dubbed in Hindi. Worldwide gross figures (including dubbed versions) are given below.
Telugu cinema, also known by its nickname "Tollywood" is a part of Indian cinema producing films in the Telugu language, in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and is centered in the Hyderabad neighbourhood of Film Nagar.[85] In Karnataka and Odisha, the films are directly released in Telugu language itself whereas in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and rest of India they are generally dubbed into Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi respectively.[86] The worldwide gross figures are given below after adding dubbed versions.
^* 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
^Sarkar, Bhaskar (2008). "The Melodramas of Globalization". Cultural Dynamics. 20: 31–51 [34]. doi:10.1177/0921374007088054. Madhava Prasad traces the origin of the term to a 1932 article in the American Cinematographer by Wilford E. Deming, an American engineer who apparently helped produce the first Indian sound picture. At this point, the Calcutta suburb of Tollygunge was the main centr of film production in India. Deming refers to the area as Tollywood, since it already boasted two studios with 'several more projected' (Prasad, 2003) 'Tolly', rhyming with 'Holly', got hinged to 'wood' in the Anglophone Indian imagination, and came to denote the Calcutta studios and, by extension, the local film industry. Prasad surmises: 'Once Tollywood was made possible by the fortuitous availability of a half-rhyme, it was easy to clone new Hollywood babies by simply replacing the first letter' (Prasad, 2003).From Cinema of India: Sarkar, Bhaskar (2008). "The Melodramas of Globalization". Cultural Dynamics. 20 (1): 31–51 [34]. doi:10.1177/0921374007088054.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^Gulzar; Nihalani, Govind; Chatterji, Saibal (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Encyclopædia Britannica (India) Pvt Ltd. pp. 10–18. ISBN 81-7991-066-0.
^Pippa de Bruyn; Niloufer Venkatraman; Keith Bain (2006). Frommer's India. Frommer's. p. 579. ISBN 0-471-79434-1.
^Wasko, Janet (2003). How Hollywood works. SAGE. p. 185. ISBN 0-7619-6814-8.
^K. Jha; Subhash (2005). The Essential Guide to Bollywood. Roli Books. p. 1970. ISBN 81-7436-378-5.
