Year In Review
2021 — Key Stats
Blockbusters
13 films
Blockbuster or All-Time Blockbuster in the archive
Hits
5 films
Hit, Super Hit or Semi Hit
Flops + Disasters
5 films
Tracked titles only — not the full year's release slate
Best Return
Drishyam 2
₹80 Cr nett on 15 Cr · 5.3× return
Boxoffy Archive
2021 — 28 Films by India Nett
| # | Film · Cast | Director | India Nett | Verdict | Budget | OTT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sukumar | ₹250 Cr | Blockbuster | 200 Cr | — | |
| 2 | Rohit Shetty | ₹196 Cr | Hit | 185 Cr | — | |
| 3 | Jon Watts | ₹210 Cr | Blockbuster | — | — | |
| 4 | Lokesh Kanagaraj | ₹140 Cr | Blockbuster | 100 Cr | — | |
| 5 | Radha Krishna Kumar | ₹130 Cr | Disaster | 300 Cr | — | |
| 6 |
Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch
|
Jon Watts | ₹185 Cr | All-Time Blockbuster | — | — |
| 7 | Siva | ₹120 Cr | Average | 180 Cr | — | |
| 8 | Kabir Khan | ₹100 Cr | Disaster | 180 Cr | — | |
| 9 |
Pawan Kalyan, Shruti Haasan, Anjali
|
Venu Sriram | ₹105 Cr | Blockbuster | 65 Cr | — |
| 10 |
Thalapathy Vijay, Vijay Sethupathi
|
Lokesh Kanagaraj | ₹80 Cr | All-Time Blockbuster | 20 Cr | — |
| 11 |
Mohanlal, Meena, Ansiba Hassan
|
Jeethu Joseph | ₹80 Cr | All-Time Blockbuster | 15 Cr | — |
| 12 |
R. Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi
|
Pushkar-Gayatri | ₹70 Cr | All-Time Blockbuster | 15 Cr | — |
| 13 |
Sivakarthikeyan, Priyanka Arul Mohan
|
Nelson Dilipkumar | ₹62 Cr | Super Hit | 35 Cr | — |
| 14 |
Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan
|
Gopichand Malineni | ₹55 Cr | Super Hit | 35 Cr | — |
| 15 | Ranjit Tewari | ₹30 Cr | Flop | 100 Cr | — | |
| 16 |
Dhanush, Rajisha Vijayan
|
Mari Selvaraj | ₹42 Cr | Super Hit | 30 Cr | — |
| 17 |
Dulquer Salmaan, Indrajith Sukumaran
|
Srinath Rajendran | ₹42 Cr | Super Hit | 22 Cr | — |
| 18 |
Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall
|
Adam Wingard | ₹42 Cr | All-Time Blockbuster | — | — |
| 19 |
Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour
|
Cate Shortland | ₹38 Cr | Blockbuster | — | — |
| 20 |
Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie
|
Chloé Zhao | ₹32 Cr | Blockbuster | — | — |
| 21 | Milap Zaveri | ₹27 Cr | Disaster | 90 Cr | — | |
| 22 |
Simu Liu, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Awkwafina
|
Destin Daniel Cretton | ₹28 Cr | Blockbuster | — | — |
| 23 |
Sai Tej, Aishwarya Rajesh
|
Deva Katta | ₹25 Cr | Average | 35 Cr | — |
| 24 |
Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Sharma
|
Hardik Mehta | ₹22 Cr | Average | 25 Cr | — |
| 25 |
Vin Diesel, John Cena, Jordana Brewster
|
Justin Lin | ₹22 Cr | Blockbuster | — | — |
| 26 |
Salman Khan, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda
|
Prabhu Deva | ₹18 Cr | Disaster | 200 Cr | — |
| 27 |
Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Édgar Ramírez
|
Jaume Collet-Serra | ₹15 Cr | Average | — | — |
| 28 |
Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Apte
|
Harshavardhan Kulkarni | ₹4 Cr | Average | 7 Cr | — |