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List of highest-grossing films in India

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For a list of highest-grossing Indian films worldwide, see List of highest-grossing Indian films.

This ranking lists the highest-grossing films in India, based on domestic box office estimates as reported by organizations classified as green by Wikipedia.[a] The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no official tracking of figures and sources publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.[1] Box office collections have been steadily increasing in the 21st century, the main reasons attributed to the rise in ticket prices, and increase in number of theatres and prints of a film.[2]

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The highest-grossing film in India is Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024), with a total of ₹1,471.1 crore (US$170 million).[3] The film broke a number of domestic records, grossing over ₹595 crore in its opening weekend.[4] Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) was the previous highest-grossing domestic film, with a domestic gross of ₹1,429.83 crore.[5]

The Indian market is dominated by domestic Indian films, which represented 90% of the country's box office revenue in 2024; this is one of the highest for a major film market apart from the United States, where domestic Hollywood films represent 88.8% of its box office revenue.[6] While Indian films remain at the top of the domestic Indian box office, the market for Hollywood films has gradually been growing;[7] the market share of foreign films rose from 8% in 2014 up to 15% in 2015,[8] with Hollywood films representing 10% of the Indian market in 2016[9] and 13% in 2017.[10] Some of the earliest foreign blockbusters in India included Mackenna's Gold (1969) starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif,[11] and Bruce Lee's Hong Kong action cinema Enter the Dragon (in 1975) and The Way of the Dragon (in 1979).[12] The Hollywood production Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) is the highest grossing foreign film in India, also the 15th highest-grossing film in India with a collection of ₹484.36 crore (US$59 million).[13]

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  Background shading indicates that a film is currently showing in theatres.
  Background shading indicates a foreign film.

Highest-grossing films

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The following table lists the top 50 highest-grossing films at the Indian box office.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
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Highest-grossing films by opening weekend

This chart lists the films with biggest openings in India. Since many films do not open on Fridays, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the film's release.

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Highest-grossing milestone films by revenue

The list shows the first Indian films to achieve landmark domestic gross figures in India.

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Films with the highest footfalls

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Highest-grossing films by year

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See also

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Notes

  1. See WP:RSP, WP:ICTFSOURCES
  2. Sorted based on the lowest value when figures are presented as a range, and for the same value, the older item is given a higher order.
  3. Ponniyin Selvan: I's reported worldwide grosses vary between ₹450 crore (Zee News[47]) – ₹480 crore (Pinkvilla[48]) – ₹500 crore (Hindustan Times[49])
  4. Footfalls refer to the number of tickets sold.
  5. 25 crore including overseas
  6. See Box office § Average ticket price
  7. 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[121]
  8. Sholay domestic gross: ₹35 crore[119][120] (US$41.79 million),[g] equivalent to ₹1,500 crore ($246 million) in 2014.[122]

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