Bollywood Hits & Flops of 2019

The year 2019 has been mixed for Bollywood. While there were hit movies like Uri: The Surgical Strike and Kabir Singh, the flops like Kalank, Student of the Year 2 among others were also released. Here you can find a brief summary of Bollywood box office performance in 2019.  In case you haven’t watched any of these yet, we hope it helps in deciding.

BOLLYWOOD BIGGEST HITS OF 2019:

URI – THE SURGICAL STRIKE

The military action film based on the real-life surgical strike by  Indian soldiers inside POK territory turned out to be the biggest money-spinner on Indian box office. Aditya Dhar directed movie featured Vicky Kaushal, Mohit Raina, Yami Gautam & Paresh Rawal in pivot roles. Released under the banner of RSVP Movies, URI reported a worldwide box office collection of ₹342 crores. URI – The Surgical Strike was the centre of attraction in National film awards whereby it registered 4 trophies.

KABIR SINGH

The movie stars Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani in lead roles. It is a remake of Telugu film Arjun Reddy. The movie opened to both positive and negative reviews and earned 20.21 crore on day one. The total collection of the film was 379.02 crores.  

KESARI

Akshay Kumar added yet another feather to his cap by doing a patriotic film named Kesari based on the Battle of Saragarhi. The Sikh soldiers fought in this battle on behalf of the British Indian Army against Afghan Tribes. The film made double the cost of investment at Bollywood Box Office 2019. 

GULLY BOY

The Zoya Akhtar film has been loosely inspired by the life of rappers Divine and Naezy. Both of them rose from Mumbai slums to become rap sensations. The movie has been appreciated by the urban audience. The performances of Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt and Siddhant Chaturvedi and the catchy soundtrack of the film led it to commercial and critical success. The movie made an entry to the Oscars. However, it lost the race and was eliminated from the award list. 

BADLA 

The movie is based on the Spanish film The Invisible Guest and stars Tapsee Pannu and Amitabh Bachchan. The movie was successful both critically and commercially. The film has a good performance by Tapsee who plays murder accused and Amitabh who plays her lawyer. The movie has been directed by Sujoy Ghosh and collected 88 crores at the box office.

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THE TASHKENT FILES

The Tashkent Files is being counted as Bollywood Hits of 2019. Despite being a small budget movie and getting a few screens for its release the film has earned quite well. The movie is based on the death of the former Prime Minister of India Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri. 

BIGGEST FLOPS OF 2019:

KALANK

The movie was produced by Dharma Productions with a huge star cast including Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Sonakshi Sinha and Varun Dhawan. The movie has been directed by Abhishek Varman and its music or trailer was not received well among the audiences. 

STUDENT OF THE YEAR 2

Karan Johar gave us yet another disaster of the year in the form of Student of the Year 2. The sequel to 2012 hit college movie, Student of the Year, didn’t hit the targeted young audience. The movie starred Tiger Shroff and debutantes Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria. The movie was turned down by both audiences as well as critics.