With Rs 1,000cr at Q1CY19, Uri, Total Dhamaal, Kesari, Gully Boy set a record for Bollywood

Joginder Tuteja

A record was created: never in the history of Bollywood the first quarter of a calendar year resulted in a collection of about 1,000 crore at the Box Office.

As the January weeks are considered a respite period due to the post-New Year period, the days leading up to March are not lucrative enough either because of the exam season. For this reason, filmmakers are generally reluctant to present great films in the first quarter of the year.

However, the year 2019 was an exception and it also bore fruit for the majority, with more than half a dozen films that turned out to be of good quality. Fide success. As a result, the threshold of Rs. 1,000 crores has now been crossed – something that has never happened before, looking back over the last few years.

The year 2018 was close to this record when Padmaavat exceeded the crore of 300 rupees and Baaghi 2 scored a whopping Rs 166 crore. As a result, the total of the first quarter amounted to 914 million rupees.

In comparison, the year 2017 was well below a mere crore of 650 rupees with only Raees Jolly LLB 2 Badrinath Ki Dulhania and Kaabil each exceeding the crore mark of Rs 100. The year 2016 was not better because Airlift was the only crore club movie of 100 rupees and the total for the quarter rose to Rs 550 crore.

In 2019, the films that contributed to the harvest of 1,000 rupees are Uri – The Surgical Strike Total Dhamaal Kesari Gully Boy Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi ] Luka Chuppi and Badla . Interestingly, with the exception of Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi all the other films are still being filmed, which shows that they have all experienced a sustained period.

The largest of this lot is Uri – The Surgical Strike which alone has contributed to nearly 25% of this moolah. With a crore of 245 rupees in his kitty, the film has become a blockbuster of all time and still brings steps. Even though it started at 8.20 Rupees, the film directed by Aditya Dhar has multiplied its collections 30 times, which had never happened before.

The following film is Total Dhamaal and the case headed by Indra Kumar emerged as a superhit by already crossing the mark of 150 crores of Rs. Spectators, who directed Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit with the usual suspects, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffery, have been well defeated by the public.

Another film that should mark the coup. is the current version of Kesari which has entered the Rs 100 crore club now. In fact, stoner Akshay Kumar helped bridge the gap between 900 crores of Rs 900 and Rs 1,000 crores, thus giving Bollywood a good reason to celebrate. This should further add to the 1,000 rupee crore transport of the first quarter before the end of the month.

The good side of the current season is that movies of different genres are doing so well. Gully Boy was essentially a niche business and he still ended up collecting 140 crore. Ranveer Singh had just come out of the mbady Simmba and the risk was rewarded by the case headed by Zoya Akhtar which turned out to be a great success.

On the other hand, Kangana Ranaut is well badured that Manikarnika – The Queen of Jhansi is a success. Even if the film was so negative throughout the film, she kept her head up and the film thus exceeded the crore of 90 Rs.

The films that have benefited from the best ROI in recent times are Luka Chuppi and Badla . Both had a budget of less than 30 crores and the theatrical market had been multiple.

Kartik Aaryan surpbaded the success of Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety and he had an acid test to come to mark with Luka Chuppi who was part of another team. With producer Dinesh Vijan baduring that production, marketing and exit were adequate and that Kriti Sanon put his charm at stake, Luka Chuppi had violated the crore mark of Rs. 90

As for Badla ] he grew up strong by force. The films belonging to this genre (thrillers with a single piece without any song) are quite rare and yet Sujoy Ghosh was convinced to succeed. Add to that the support of Shah Rukh Khan and Sunir Kheterpal, and the pair of Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu ended up delivering the jackpot here. The film has exceeded the crore of 75 rupees and still counts.

While the aforementioned films are the main contributors to the Rs 1,000 crore race, those who were disappointed were Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga ] Why cheat in India and Sonchiriya . These three films had a collective activity of less than 40 crores of rupees, whereas they should have ideally exceeded a rupee crore of at least 100 rupees.

In addition, there were also some other failures in the form of Amavas Photography Milan's Talkies Saiyaan's Fraud Rangeela Raja and Bombairiya who has hardly any money.

Fortunately, there were some bonus numbers from Thackeray and the Accidental Prime Minister who collectively collected over 60 Rs – making their small contribution. on file. They turned out to be cover topics, but at least they turned the box office at least their opening week.

While the record created so far is unprecedented, we are waiting to see if the second quarter of 2019 would be better. With biggies like Bharat Kalank Year 2 pupil and De Pyaar From online for liberation, and many others interesting things movies like Romeo Akbar Walter Arjun Patiala Kabir Singh The Most Wanted of India Mental Hai Kya [19459] The Zoya Factor and Malaal are also preparing to march on the screens, another 1,000 rupees transport would be considerable for Bollywood.