South Indian movies, headed by Pushpa 2: The Rule and Kalki 2898 AD, topped India’s field workplace in 2024, making up for a decline in receipts for Hindi-language cinema, in accordance with knowledge from Mumbai-based Ormax Media.
Complete field workplace for the yr 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 yr on file. Hindi movies took a 40% share of complete 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%.
Nonetheless, complete field workplace for Hindi movies decreased by 13% from $625.3M (Rs53.8BN) in 2023 – a yr 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 authentic Hindi-language movies are thought of, 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 yr. Mufasa: The Lion King was the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of the yr, grossing $20.7M and rating at quantity 11 within the general year-end chart.
Malayalam cinema had a powerful yr, 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 most important 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, increased common ticket costs stored field workplace buoyant final yr, as admissions fell to 883 million, a 6% decline in comparison with 2023 and a worrying 14% decrease than the pre-pandemic yr of 2019. The typical ticket value was Rs134 in 2024, just like Rs130 in 2023, however 26% increased than the Rs106 common in 2019.
