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Hello, I'm Tevar shaa. I wanted to let you know that According to reports at that time, #Mungarumale was the first film to touch ₹50 crore and even within 300 days See this.^[1] And ran for 1 year continuously in PVR with packed houses. And went on to run over 865 days and raked over ₹75 crore in its life time in #Karnataka. ^[2][3]

Actually the the Mungarumale collection is not announced by any primary sources like producer/actor/director/distributors, it is by critic, named C.H. Prahlada Rao, who told to "DNA" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tevar shaa (talk • contribs)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/10/03/if-secret-superstar-hits-big-aamir-khan-will-own-the-title-worlds-biggest-movie-star/#3b6ee934a8d3 Saisiddharth4u (talk) 18:06, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MERSAL 1500CR Mukhilk (talk) 13:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. SparklingPessimist ^{Scream at me!} 14:20, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mukhilk: Please don't post idiotic edit requests. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fidaa- 2.0 Million dollar spyder- 1.5 million dollar jai lava kusa- 1.5 million dollar 183.82.230.9 (talk) 10:48, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:23, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So I'm randomly looking at the reference list for the 1973 film Bobby. Here's what I see:

Bobby: ₹30.24 crore (US$35.65 million) in 1975 (₹1155 crore (US$172 million) in 2016)

• India: ₹11 crore^[173] (US$14.21 million)^{[n 59]} in 1973 (US$77 million or ₹517 crore^[125] in 2016)
  
• Soviet Union: 15.65 million SUR^{[n 60]} (US$21.44 million,^{[n 61]} ₹19.24 crore)^{[n 62]} in 1975 (US$95 million (₹638 crore)^[125] in 2016)

How we arrive at 30.24 crore is visually confusing to say the least, with all those currency conversions and notes and such. @Maestro2016: You seem to have placed a lot of stock in what some random LiveJournal user has said. How does this source qualify as WP:RS? And how do we know that this BOI reference, which cites a gross of ₹11 crore doesn't represent the estimated worldwide gross? Where does it say that this is the domestic take? I mean it's already problematic that we're dealing with box office estimates from 1973. We can't even get consistent box figures with all our technology in 2017.

It seems that we're making assumptions about 2 important facts: 1) That the LiveJournal post is authoritative, and 2) That the Box Office India guesstimates are domestic only.

Additionally, I'm curious why Urdu appears so often in the Highest-grossing films by year table. Seems to have sprung up here. Many of these are presumably Hindi films produced by Bollywood. What's the Urdu connection? Dubs? We don't include dubs in these tables.

Really we're in WP:SYNTH territory, because we're cobbling together a bunch of data from a myriad of sources to arrive at something none of the sources say. Taking a LiveJournal post, taking the alleged ticket sales figure, multiplying that by the average ticket price, converting that figure into Indian rupees, adjusting for inflation... HUUUUGE margin for error here, and it's kind of shocking that no mainstream Indian source can be found to say explicitly "Bobby was the highest grossing Indian film of 1973 with a worldwide gross of ₹NN crore." The lack of data to this effect makes everything else so suspect. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 13:58, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to address each of these points:

1. The LiveJournal blog is written by Sergey Kudryavtsev, a Russian film critic and Soviet cinema historian. He is a reliable source for Soviet box office numbers.

2. Box Office India makes a distinction between domestic, overseas and worldwide numbers. Also, BOI does not cover overseas or worldwide numbers for any films released before the 1990s, but only has domestic numbers for films before that. And even after the 1990s, BOI's overseas data is limited to NRI markets (it doesn't include China, for example).

3. Prior to the partition of India in 1947, there was no clear political distinction between Hindi and Urdu, but it was just Hindi-Urdu back then. Also, some of those films from the 1940s are from what is today Pakistan, so it would be incorrect to list them as just Hindi. As for films after 1947, only several films are listed as Hindi-Urdu, the ones that state Urdu on their articles.

4. Wikipedia's currency and inflation templates were used to calculate those numbers. Generally, this falls under WP:CALC, which appears to be acceptable.

5. I'm not aware of any mainstream Indian sources that cover the Soviet Union, but they usually focus on just the domestic box office and overseas NRI markets. For the Soviet market, we'd need to look for Russian sources, rather than Indian sources.

Maestro2016 (talk) 14:39, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Maestro2016: Thank you for the clear explanations! I've gotten an interesting lesson on Hindi-Urdu. Good to know. Thanks. I'll have to ruminate about some of the other points. I still do feel that the notes are really dense and hard to understand though, but I'm not particularly motivated to do anything about it or to propose a solution at present. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:19, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pulimurugan gross collection is wrongly quoted its 152 crores as supposed to 125 crores which is given in the page. http://www.catchnews.com/regional-cinema/2016-box-office-kings-mohanlal-is-the-only-malayalam-actor-among-top-5-aamir-khan-tops-the-list-followed-by-akshay-kumar-and-salman-khan-1483966620.html?seq=2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anoopkatvm (talk • contribs) 08:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Anoopkatvm: Maybe you should read the source again. "Pulimurugan is still running to packed houses in more than 80 centers across the Kerala has so far collected Rs. 152 crore worldwide." Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:02, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Change the worldwide gross of Kabali from "₹477 crore (US$74 million) – ₹499 crore (US$78 million)" to "499 crore ($79 million)", the link is "https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/10/24/for-vijays-mersal-%E2%82%B9200-crore31m-worldwide-gross-is-now-a-lock/2/". 183.78.95.38 (talk) 07:38, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: There is obviously a range of opinion on the gross. Why would we assume that the higher figure is the correct one? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Riyazsrk123 (talk) 07:25, 27 October 2017 (UTC) Please Add Mersal in Highest Grossing Tamil Films List and Reliable sources such as Forbes,india today article link has been provided below..^{[1][2] [3] [4]}[reply]

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Please change vivegam in tamil films from eighth position to ninth position and put mersal in eighth position Mersal (film). Ramsundarramsundar (talk) 14:09, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The references given are not WP:RS for Indian cinema (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Film/Indian_cinema_task_force for more) and the box office figures for the other films would need RS updating to determine if positional changes are necessary. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 00:00, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As shown here^[1] from a trustworthy source, Mersal has crossed 180 Crores in the Boxoffice and should make the list.

In this ^[2]article posted recently breaking down the boxoffice of Vivegam, it has only grossed 112 Crores and should be removed from the list.

Kesh505 (talk) 12:31, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

change ((Atlee)) to ((Atlee (director)|Atlee))

Done Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 17:55, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Change the Worldwide gross of tamil film "Mersal" from '170 Crores to 200 Crores' , the link is " http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mersal-12-days-box-office-collection-crowning-vijay-film-joins-rs-200-crore-club-2nd-weekend-747432 " 183.78.95.52 (talk) 05:57, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done ToThAc (talk) 17:54, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A request to update Mersal's collection and change it from Rs.170 Cr to Rs.210 Cr.

1. http://www.businesstoday.in/trending/box-office/mersal-box-office-collection-vijay-rs-210-crore-worldwide/story/262920.html

2. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mersal-12-days-box-office-collection-crowning-vijay-film-joins-rs-200-crore-club-2nd-weekend-7474

Although the business times quotes the official twitter handle of the film (which might not be a valid source), the ibtimes has confirmed that the film has atleast grossed Rs.200 Cr. Arunkxip (talk) 11:07, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please update Mersal box office collection from 170 crore into 210 crore.

http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/tamil/mersal-box-office-third-week-on-but-vijay-starrer-refuses-to-slow-down-4916990/

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mersal-14-day-box-office-collection-ilayathalapathy-vijays-film-rs-210-crore-beat-vikram-record-747732 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:77:6F2B:3182:AC88:A346:20FF:6949 (talk) 14:53, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please underline Mersal movie Green, because Mersal is still running. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:77:6F2B:3182:AC88:A346:20FF:6949 (talk) 17:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done ToThAc (talk) 17:54, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

'Change the Worldwide gross' of Tamil film 'Mersal' from "200 Crores to 210 Crores" , the link is ' http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mersal-14-day-box-office-collection-ilayathalapathy-vijays-film-rs-210-crore-beat-vikram-record-747732 ' .. 183.78.95.2 (talk) 02:14, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE UNDERLINE MERSAL MOVIE IN GREEN, because the movie is still running!!!!!!!

My 2nd request!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E5:D3CB:F001:51E8:ECC2:6941:CDB8 (talk) 09:33, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]