HUM AAPKE HAIN KAUN..!!- 129cr@-1994

GADAR EK PREM KADHA-139cr@2001

BOX OFFICE INDIA CLAIMED , 3 idiots watched by 2.5 crores of people in theaters.. while its 4crore for GADAR EK PREM KADHA

according to BOI
sholay is THE all time biggest
and HAHK or GADAR is the MOST WATCHEDMODERN DAY FILM (after 1990)

my father watched sholay from bomaby MINERVA (where it had a dream run of 5.5 years , and stopped the run due to the strike in theater)

he spend Rs.9 for a ticket.. but it was in black..
actual ticket rate was around Rs.2.10 . (balcony)
it was the ticket rate in India’s biggest city. if you take this as average price of then ticket.. then also SHOLAY is INCOMPARABLE
35crore gross at an average ticket rate of Rs.2 (actually it may be Re.1) means 18cr people watched it in theaters..

SHOLAY-18cr >>> GADAR-4cr >>> 3idiots-2.5cr

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Week 0001 – Week Ending Aug 21, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 46,66,224/-
Week 0002 – Week Ending Aug 28, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 34,98,605/-
Week 0003 – Week Ending Sep 04, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 25,57,450/-
Week 0004 – Week Ending Sep 11, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 21,27,120/-
Week 0005 – Week Ending Sep 18, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 17,76,520/-
Week 0006 – Week Ending Sep 25, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 13,84,464/-
Week 0007 – Week Ending Oct 02, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 11,74,001/-
Week 0008 – Week Ending Oct 09, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 10,78,480/-
Week 0009 – Week Ending Oct 16, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 9,24,365/-
Week 0010 – Week Ending Oct 23, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 9,72,574/-
Week 0011 – Week Ending Oct 30, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 8,74,492/-
Week 0012 – Week Ending Nov 06, 1975: Box Office Collection: Rs. 8,09,285/-
Week 0060 – Week Ending Oct 07, 1976: Box Office Collection: Rs. 53,920/-
Week 0150 – Week Ending Jun 29, 1978: Box Office Collection: Rs. 28,601/-
Week 1500 – Week Ending May 13, 2004: Box Office Collection: Rs. 38,359/-

If you know mathematics then as you are aware that it has collected total of Rs 768,81,00,000 till now is the absolute value not the normalized one.

Now let’s talk about how the collection has been done.

Total number of theaters in 1975 were only 10% of the current number of theater. Like in delhi the movies is running together in approx 15 theaters and 90 shows a day while in 1975 it was running in only 2 theaters with 8 shows a day.

total number of screening are not even 10% of the current situation.

Now the ticket in multiplex is approx Rs 150-200 while on a normal theater it is Rs 75/-

Comparing this with the ticket cost in 1975 Rs 1/- or somewhere it is even less then that…I remember I have watched movie in 1987 with a cost of ticket Rs 5/-

Also the movie ticket rates were slashed when it become the tax free in many states.

So tickets rates inflation is more then 100%.

When you talk about piracy you forgot so many things again :
1. There are very few people having the access to the theaters.
2. People with age less then 15-16 year do not go to watch the movie as it consider bad that time.
3. The collection was approximately none for the region like AP/KR/TN and north east. cause either there is no theater and where there is theater people do not know Hindi and this film was released only in Hindi.

These are only some points and if you normalize based on them only you will find that the collection it has done in starting 3 weeks should be multiplied with 1000.

And do not forgot that that time the people do not have televisions in their home so No Media Advertisements.

Sometime I really think that how people give their comments without understanding the article.

Dude you need to understand 3 things before replying again:

1. What is normalization? Investopedia is the best site you can go to understand that.

2. How the gold price gets controlled and the currency price changes. FYI the international trade is either done in Dollars or gold, and to get the Dollar reserve you need to deposit the equivalent gold to concern authorities. Gold trade and prices were controlled globally that time also. So saying this normalization factor as lame itself questions your understanding about the financial market.

3. If you do not know the situation of 1975 and today well then first understand the 1975 India.

Saying any article lame is acting like Shiyajee Shindee of movie Shool when he said “Agar paani main se current inkaal loge to bachega kya?”

Think again after understanding all the things and write it down and if your comments make any sense then I will surely accept them add modify my article.

It collected about 700 cr( inflation adjusted) till now. Which seems to be a possibility for 3 idiots. That is the reason everybody might be comparing with sholay. I even dont agree but the argument you used is wrong.

Repeatedly watching the movie over this many years made you a big fan of it and everybody might have liked the Gabbar role. So how can you say there is no role in the movie 3 idiots that can be as famous as that. Any role can become like that . Just need some time.

What a lame comparison with Gold price dude. On the positive side the markets have elaborated globally and the negative side there is huge online and video piracy. We can’t absolutely compare two movies which have been released 35 years apart.

my anger is due to two lame articles in a row on idubba the other is Twitter may soon become Mobile companies biggest nightmare

No research nothing… just crap…