The well-known south Indian actor Allu Arjun’s most recent release Pushpa: The Rise – Part One has been making money every single day. It started off slow but quickly built up momentum, moving forward leaps and bounds eventually surpassing expectations while breaking records left and right. With a runaway success such as this in its wake, Bollywood Hungama takes a look at some other notable South films that were successful enough to earn themselves an honorably mention from the Hindi dubbing world.
Baahubali 2 – The Conclusion: Released in 2017, Baahubali 2 – The Conclusion which was the second part of the Baahubali series directed by SS Rajamouli quickly emerged as one of the highest grossing movies ever. When it came to the Hindi dubbed versions of this popular movie, they managed to amass over Rs 500 crores; astonishing trade pundits across India.
2.0: The Rajinikanth-Akshay Kumar movie 2.0 came in second place with a total income of 189.55 crore rupees (which is approximately $27 million). This 2018 release showed that a movie’s success can be predicted by its number of fans and followers, even though it may be inaccurate half the time.
Saaho: This 2019 Prabhaas star-studded action filled film has stirred much interest from movie goers. Because of its stylistic nature, this film quickly blew up on social media and managed to rake in 142.95 crores at the Indian box office.
Bahubali: the Beginning – This film sets new trends in storytelling, budgeting and filming techniques. It features an uncharacteristically large production scale for Indian cinema at 190 million rupees (US$2.9 million), making it one of the most expensive Indian films at the time. The film’s success led to increased interest in Tamil and Telugu language films outside South India, where they are traditionally popular.
Pushpa: The Rise – Part 1: After making Rs.100 crore, Pushpa managed to stay in theaters despite coming out online for free before the movie even finished playing in theaters. Shocking everyone who thought it was impossible because of this new trend with films being released online before they are even shown in theater, people continued to flock back when they realised how well made this film is.
