Every Indian Film to Cross Rs 1,000 Crore Worldwide — The Complete List

Still the highest-grossing Indian film ever released, nine years on, and the least Indian result on this list. Roughly Rs 1,400 crore of Dangal's gross came from China, where it opened on 9,000 screens — the widest release any Indian film has ever had anywhere — and out-grossed Captain America: Civil War. At home it took Rs 387.38 crore net, which is a magnificent number for a wrestling drama made for Rs 70 crore and a distant fifth among the films on this page. It was the first Indian film past $300 million worldwide and is still the highest-grossing sports film ever made in any country. Nobody has repeated the China route since; the market closed to Indian films almost as quickly as it opened.

The biggest domestic result in the history of Indian cinema, and the entry that makes Dangal's top spot look fragile. Aditya Dhar's sequel opened on 19 March 2026 at Rs 90 crore on day one, took Rs 443 crore over its first weekend, and finished at Rs 1,108.09 crore net in India — the first Indian film to net a thousand crore at home rather than reaching the mark on an overseas run. Its worldwide total of around Rs 1,852 crore is second only to Dangal, and unlike Dangal it did not need a foreign market to get there. Released across Hindi and the South Indian languages simultaneously, it is the clearest evidence yet that the pan-India release is now the default rather than an experiment.

The film that created the category. Before 28 April 2017 no Indian film had grossed a thousand crore and there was no particular reason to think one would; ten days later S. S. Rajamouli's second Baahubali had done it, and it went on to Rs 1,810.60 crore on a Rs 250 crore budget — the most expensive Indian film ever made at the time. It also crossed Rs 1,000 crore net inside India alone within thirty days, which nothing else managed until 2026. Everything downstream of this list is downstream of this film: the pan-India simultaneous release, the two-part event structure, the idea that a Telugu film could be the biggest Hindi release of its year. Rajamouli is one of only two directors with two entries here.

The fastest anything has ever got here. Sukumar's sequel took Rs 280 crore worldwide on its opening day — the biggest single day in Indian cinema — and cleared a thousand crore inside a week; the makers put it at six days, Box Office India at eight, and the argument between those two figures is the only thing about the run that was close. It reached Rs 400 crore in two days and Rs 500 crore in three. The budget is the caveat and it is a large one: at Rs 400 to 500 crore this is one of the most expensive Indian films ever mounted, so a gross that looks enormous next to KGF: Chapter 2's is a considerably thinner result than KGF's was.

Aditya Dhar's third film as director, after Uri and a gap of six years, and the one that carried the Indian box office to a record year — Variety put the 2025 India total at $1.48 billion, led by this. Rs 895.96 crore net at home and around Rs 1,350 to 1,428 crore worldwide, on a budget shared with its sequel across a combined Rs 250 to 255 crore for the pair. It also did something no Indian film had done in decades: it held screens for a hundred days, still playing in March 2026 when its own sequel opened. Between the two films the franchise took over Rs 3,200 crore, which is more than any Indian series has managed and roughly thirteen times what the pair cost.

The only Indian feature film to have won an Academy Award, and the one entry on this list whose cultural reach comfortably exceeded its receipts. Naatu Naatu took Best Original Song at the 95th Oscars — the first song from an Asian film to win the category — and the Golden Globe before it, and RRR became the second non-English-language film ever named in the National Board of Review's ten best. The Rs 1,300 to 1,387 crore worldwide against a Rs 550 crore budget is a strong commercial result rather than an extraordinary one; the American theatrical run, the repertory screenings, and the fact that a Telugu period action film became a genuine phenomenon in a market that ignores subtitles are the parts that were unprecedented.

On return against cost this is the most successful film on the page and it is not close: roughly Rs 1,200 crore returned on a Rs 100 crore budget, twelve times the money in, where Kalki managed under two and Pushpa 2 around three. Prashanth Neel's sequel was the second-fastest to a thousand crore after Baahubali 2, the first Kannada film released in IMAX, and it out-grossed its own predecessor inside two days. It is also the only Kannada film on this list, and the film that established that a Kannada production could open at Hindi-blockbuster scale in the Hindi market — its Hindi version had the biggest opening day of any film in Hindi at the time.

The sixth Indian film to a thousand crore and the third Hindi one, reached on day eighteen — the fastest a Hindi film had done it at the time. Rs 643.87 crore net in India, an All Time Blockbuster, and the second half of the year that reversed Shah Rukh Khan's commercial position entirely: Pathaan in January, this in September, both over a thousand crore, after a four-year gap in which he released nothing. Atlee was making his first Hindi film. It netted a record Rs 51.35 crore in Hindi on day one and became the highest net-grossing Hindi film in India on day seventeen, taking the record off Pathaan eight months after Pathaan set it.

The first Hindi film to gross Rs 100 crore worldwide in a single day, and the first to pass $100 million worldwide without a China release, which is the figure that matters most on this list — every Hindi entry above it either had China or came a decade later. Rs 654.28 crore of its worldwide total came from India and Rs 396.02 crore from overseas. It arrived in January 2023 into a genuine crisis of confidence in Hindi cinema after two years of failures, and functionally ended it. Its worldwide gross and Kalki 2898 AD's overlap within a few crore and the two Wikipedia tables disagree on which is ninth and which is tenth; we follow the highest-grossing list, and the honest position is that they are tied.

The most expensive film ever made in India, at Rs 600 crore, and the thinnest margin in this club — a gross of a little over a thousand crore against a budget of six hundred is a success and nothing like the twelve-to-one KGF: Chapter 2 returned. Nag Ashwin's science-fiction epic put Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas, Kamal Haasan and Deepika Padukone in the same frame and opened at Rs 180 crore worldwide, the third-biggest opening day for an Indian film. It is the fourth Telugu entry here and the newest of them. A sequel is in production, which on these economics is a considerable bet.