Kerala Box Office - 2014 Half Year Exclusive Report
6 Months into 2014, lets look at how how Kerala Box Office performed so far this year. Total 91 Malayalam film released till June 27th including 10 Dubbed ones. The Top grossers are
1. Bangalore Days
The first blockbuster of the year is the mega multi starrer Bangalore Days. The film is also the first and biggest success in Malayalam by a Women Film Director. With Ramzan fasting beginning from tomorrow June 29th) it will be interesting to see whether the film will beat Mayamohini & T20 to grab the 3rd or 2nd biggest hit of all time title.The film is a huge success in 'Rest of India' markets too grossing around 6 crores, becoming the 2nd biggest hit following Drishyam.
Gross - 19.61 crore in 29 Days
Distributors Share - 8.64 crore
2. Ring Master
Another summer vacation, another Dileep hit. The film was made for ladies and Kids and it worked out well thanks to the target audience. As usual critics thrashed it and mass audience accepted it. The film didn't take a great opening but sustained through out as the Vishu releases slowly faded out.
Gross - 14.56 crore 75 days
Distributors Share - 6.15 crore
3. How Old Are You HOAY
Ladies were queuing up for the film from FDFS. Even though competition with Mr Fraud hurt the film in the initial days later the film picked up as Fraud went down. Thanks to the strong support from Family, especially Women, audience the film attained Super hit status. Its also the biggest grossing Women oriented film in Malayalam.
Gross 12.25 crore 42 days
Distributors Share - 5.15 crore
4. Ohm Shanthi Oshaana OSO
2014 is a rare year for Mollywood as two Women oriented film attained huge success, first OSO, then HOAY. The film made Nazriya a household name and the most popular Malayalam actress since Manju Warrier, looking at the response she is getting in theaters.
Gross - About 10 crores
5. Mr Fraud
The film took a thunderous opening and had the biggest 1st week of the year (which BD later broke). Fighting social media activists and critics the film attained success thanks to the mega opening. Unlike Grandmaster the film was a disappointment at Outside Kerala markets.
Gross - about 9.5 crore
Distributors Share - 4.25 crore
6. Jilla
Film featuring 2 of the biggest mass super stars @ Kerala Box office raked in 2.63 crore, the biggest ever, on day 1. But the insignificant role Mohanlal got proved to be a curse for the film. The Drishyam Tsunami also affected it greatly as the film couldn't create life time records as far as Tamil films are concerned.
Gross - about 9.5 crore
Distributors Share - 3.5 crore
7. 7th Day
The film surprisingly took a huge opening, Prithviraj's biggest, despite low key promotions and not even a trailer being released. The film got mixed reviews and couldn't sustain the early momentum.
Gross - 9-9.5crore
Distributors Share - about 3.75 crore
8. 1983
The film got tremendous reviews which helped the film which began in a low key manner to acheive HIT status in the long run. The successful run of Nivin Pauly in 2014 began with this film.
Gross 7.5 crore
Maan Karate - the biggest Tamil hit of 2014 so far, in Kerala, based on Returns on Investment. The rights were purchased for 15 lakhs and the total gross is about 1 crore.
Among dubbed films Bhaiyya (Yevadu) was average while Lucky The Racer (Race Gurram) did above average business, while all others where wash outs.
Among Hindi films 2 States was a huge hit, and now Ek Villain took good opening.
Among Hollywood films X-Men Days of Future Past is the biggest hit of 2014 so far.
* Figures are approximate values and may not necessarily be exact. Actual Figures might be slightly different
* Figures are approximate values and may not necessarily be exact. Actual Figures might be slightly different
