Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
, popularly known as Bollywood, consisting primarily of films in the
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
language.
Global gross figures
The following table lists the top 15 highest-grossing Hindi films. The figures are not adjusted for inflation.
The following list of films is sorted in terms of
Indian rupees
The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in the republic of India. The rupee is subdivided into 100 ''paise'' (singular: ''paisa''), though as of 2022, coins of denomination of 1 rupee are the lowest value in use wher ...
. Currency conversions to
US dollars
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are also given as reference points, as many of these films had international releases. However, the currency conversions may not be consistent, as the dollar-rupee
exchange rate
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has varied over time,
from 48 rupees per dollar in 2009
to over 65 rupees per dollar in 2017.
The exchange rate varied even more greatly prior to 2009, so a number of older films which grossed highly in terms of US dollars are under-represented on this list.
Highest-grossing Hindi films in India
The following is a list of highest-grossing Hindi films in India. This is an official tracking of figures, as reliable sources that publish data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.
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.
Nominal gross
Opening records
The following is a list of biggest opening day records of Hindi films in India.
Opening day gross
Biggest worldwide opening weekend gross
Highest-grossing films by month
See also
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List of highest-grossing Indian films
This is a ranking of the highest grossing Indian films which includes films from various languages based on the conservative global box office estimates as reported by reputable sources. There is no official tracking of domestic box office f ...
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List of highest-grossing South Indian films
Southern Indian Cinema is used to refer collectively to the four distinct film industries of Tollywood (Telugu), Kollywood (Tamil), Mollywood (Malayalam), Sandalwood (Kannada) as a single entity. The following is a list of highest-grossing Sou ...
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List of highest grossing films in India
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List of most expensive Indian films
This is an inclusive list of the most expensive Indian films, with budgets given in Indian rupees and US dollars.
Most expensive Indian productions (unadjusted for inflation)
Only productions with a budget of at least ₹100 crore in nominal In ...
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List of Hindi films
This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known ''Bollywood,'' based in Mumbai ordered by year and decade of release. Although "Bollywood" films are generally listed under the Hindi language, most ar ...
Notes
References
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Lists of highest-grossing films by region
Hindi cinema