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Hits come and go, flops come and go, superhits, blockbusters, disasters, above average grosses – they all come and go. But very, very few films come once in a lifetime that change the face of a nation’s cinematic landscape forever. And no amount of glowing critical reviews can achieve that. One indisputable, indisputable factor, set in stone for all ages, creates an unprecedented cinematic event – the box office. And over the course of several decades of Indian cinema chronicling every film industry of the country in every language, there have been a handful of such films (it’s not every day that a landmark film comes along) that rewrote history at the domestic box office.
In total, there are only eleven important films in seven decades at the Indian box office (we took seven decades as it is virtually impossible to match figures before the 1950s and it also makes sense to consider the 1 crore mark as the first milestone that begins only from 1951 onwards).
The 1980s was the worst decade for milestones, with no film setting a new landmark, while the 2010s was the best decade ever with as many as four films creating new milestones. 1994-released Hum Aapke Hain Koun and 2017’s Baahubali 2 turned out to be the biggest notable jumps in terms of collections. Additionally, nine out of the ten films belong to Bollywood, cementing the dominance of the Hindi film industry in the country, while Aamir Khan is not only the only actor with multiple films on the list, but with as many as four of them, underlining his goodwill with audiences in various demographic groups.
Without further ado, here are the important films that set various benchmarks for Indian cinema, including the year they were released and their box office collections (Note: It goes without saying that all of these movies are all-time blockbusters):
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 crores nett [15-crore landmark; no Indian movies touched the 10-crore landmark before it]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) – Rs. 72.47 crores nett [50-crore landmark; no Indian movie touched the 25-crore landmark before it]
Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) – Rs. 76.88 crores nett [75-crore landmark]
Ghajini (2008) – Rs. 114.10 crores nett [100-crore landmark]
3 Idiots (2009) – Rs. 201.37 crores nett [200-crore landmark; no Indian movie touched the 150-crore landmark before it]
Dhoom 3 (2013) – Rs. 284.27 crores nett [250-crore landmark]
PK (2014) – Rs. 340.80 crore nett [300-crore landmark]
Baahubali (2015) – Rs. 420.05 crores net [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, who will be the next Indian film to set a new milestone at the box office, hence the 1200 crore milestone, and more importantly, can any film break Baahubali 2’s record in the foreseeable future? Fingers crossed…
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