Crossing 100 crore mark was a big task for any Bollywood film in an era before 2010, then 200 Crore Club came to the compition. In this box office report, we will look at Bollywood’s 300 crore club movies.
SRK’s comeback film Pathaan brings this term back post COVID-19. Released on 2 Oct 2019, Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff starrer ‘War’ became the 8th Bollywood movie to enter this 300 crore club in 19 days pre-covid, now Pathaan took just 7 days to cross this mark.
Crossing 300 crore mark at the Indian box office is not a cakewalk. There are only 9 movies have managed to achieve this feat. Wider and festive releases, stardom and great content are few factors common in these movies.
Pan India Movies like Baahubali 2 (Telugu Origin), KGF 2 (Kannada Origin) did 300 Cr+ business in North India (Hind Lang.) and number os South Indian movies also achieves this number at domestic but this list is about Bollywood Movies.
Bollywood’s 300 Crore Club Movies List
Pathaan sets several Box Office records, fastest to reach 300 Crore is one of them. The film breaks the record of Baahubali 2 and KGF 2 Hindi versions, this film is feast for Bollywood now.
Movie | Star Cast | Director | Release | Box Office (India Nett) | Box Office (Global) | Days taken for 300 Cr |
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1- Dangal | Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sanya Malhotra | Nitesh Tiwari | 23 Dec 2016 | 386.68 | 740 | 13 |
2- PK | Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma | Rajkumar Hirani | 19 December 2014 | 340.80 | 792 | 17 |
3- Bajrangi Bhaijaan | Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan | Kabir Khan | 17 July 2015 | 320.34 | 626 | 20 |
4- Tiger Zinda Hai | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif | Ali Abbaz Zafar | 22 Dec 2017 | 339 | 564 | 16 |
5- Sultan | Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma | Ali Abbas Zafar | 6th July 2016 | 300.65 | 589 | 35 |
6- Padmaavat | Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | 25 Jan 2018 | 302.51 | 587 | 48 |
7- Sanju | Ranbir Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vicky Kaushal | Rajkumar Hirani | 29 Jun 2018 | 341.22 | 586.85 | 16 |
8- War | Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vanni Kapoor | Siddharth Anand | 2 Oct 2019 | 318 | 475.5 | 19 |
9- Pathaan | Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham | Siddharth Anand | 25 Jan 2023 | 320 | 642 | 7 |
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First 300 Crore Bollywood Movie
Just like 100 crore club and 200 crore club, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan shine here in 300 crore club. Out of these 9 movies, 5 belongs to these two actors. The first Bollywood film to enter 300 crore club was Aamir Khan starrer PK (2014) which had done a whopping business of Rs 340.80 crore in the Indian market.
Released on Eid 2015, Salman Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan became the second movie to cross 300 crore mark in India. The film became the highest-grossing film of the year and collected Rs 320 crore at the Indian box office. After this Salman Khan’s Sultan entered 300 crore club.
Aamir Khan came through Nitesh Tiwari directed biographical sports drama Dangal (2016) entered in this list and after this all-time blockbuster PK (2014).
On 22nd Dec 2017, an action-packed spy thriller Tiger Zinda Hai released and set the Box Office on fire. Tiger Zinda Hain earned 339+ crores and Salman Khan became the only actor with three 300 Crore Bollywood films.
The year 2018 saw two youngsters made big money at the box office. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat starring Ranveer, Shahid, Deepika and Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju starring Ranbir Kapoor made it to the elite 300 crore club.
Oh, Sanju movie crossed 300 cr and after Dangal the second highest Indian Bollywood Box office recorded film is this.
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