Hit films of 2018

Unlike 2017, the year 2018 turned out to be a successful one for the Hindi film industry in terms of box office. The attendance in the theaters improved and more people turned up for the movies.

 “2018 has been better than 2017 for Bollywood. There was around 12-15 per cent growth and almost every month had a film entering the Rs 100-crore club,” revealed trade analyst Girish Johar. The credit for this big development goes to films with a good screenplay. This year, the coveted 100-crore entrants were films like Stree, Badhaai Ho, Padmavat, Sanju and Raazi which were packed with good content and powerful performances.

During the year, cinephiles made their choices loud and clear as they outrightly rejected films with stale and unimpressive content, though they had big-bankable actors backing them. In fact, the stars who left the cash registers ringing included some of the unconventional actors of Hindi film industry like Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkummar Rao, Taapsee Pannu and Pankaj Tripathi. The Midas touch of the three Khans – Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir could not work as their films failed to survive the competition.

Aamir’s Thugs of Hindostan made on a budget of over Rs 300 crores, managed to earn only Rs 151.19 crore after running in the theaters for five weeks. Shah Rukh Khan’s much-awaited drama Zero disappointed the viewers and how. By the end of the first week, Zero could add only Rs 86.70 crore to its kitty Salman Khan’s  thriller Race 3, after entering the Rs 100 crore club on the first weekend, could manage to only mint Rs 166.40 crore by the end of six weeks.