South Indian movies, headed by Pushpa 2: The Rule and Kalki 2898 AD, topped India’s box office in 2024, making up for a decline in receipts for Hindi-language cinema, in response to information from Mumbai-based Ormax Media.
Whole field workplace for the 12 months was the second highest on file – coming in at $1.38BN (Rs118.3BN), a 3.2% decline on $1.42BN (Rs122.3BN) in 2023, which is the best 12 months on file. Hindi movies took a 40% share of whole field workplace, adopted by Telugu movies with a 20% share, Tamil with 15%, Malayalam with 10%, Hollywood with 8% and Kannada-language movies with 3%.
Nevertheless, whole field workplace for Hindi movies decreased by 13% from $625.3M (Rs53.8BN) in 2023 – a 12 months topped by Shah Rukh Khan hits Jawan and Pathaan – to $543.9M (Rs46.8BN) in 2024. Ormax famous that 31% of Hindi cinema’s collections got here from dubbed variations of South Indian movies: “If solely unique Hindi-language movies are thought-about, the decline in field workplace was a steep 37%.”
Telugu motion thriller Pushpa 2: The Rule was the highest-grossing movie of 2024, with gross field workplace of $163M (Rs14BN). Its dubbed Hindi model achieved $103M (Rs8.9BN), setting a brand new file because the highest-grossing ‘Hindi’ movie of all time.
Telugu motion sci-fi Kalki 2898 AD got here in second with $90M, adopted by Hindi horror comedy Stree 2 with $81M, Telugu motion drama Devara – Half 1 with $40M, one other Hindi horror comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 with $36M, and Tamil motion thriller The Best Of All Time with $35M.
Field workplace for Hollywood movies declined 17% to $109.4M (Rs 9.4BN) and an 8% market share in 2024, in comparison with $132.4M (Rs11.4BN) and a 9% share the earlier 12 months. Mufasa: The Lion King was the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of the 12 months, grossing $20.7M and rating at quantity 11 within the total year-end chart.
Malayalam cinema had a robust 12 months, doubling its market share from 5% in 2023 to 10% in 2024, and surpassing the Rs10BN ($116M) mark for the primary time. Survival thriller Manjummel Boys was the largest Malayalam movie, grossing $19.8M. In the meantime, Tamil and Telugu maintained their field workplace share with marginal variations in comparison with 2023.
As in 2023, larger common ticket costs stored field workplace buoyant final 12 months, as admissions fell to 883 million, a 6% decline in comparison with 2023 and a worrying 14% decrease than the pre-pandemic 12 months of 2019. The typical ticket worth was Rs134 in 2024, just like Rs130 in 2023, however 26% larger than the Rs106 common in 2019.
