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Hindi-language films, usually known as Bollywood films, are popular not just in India but also internationally. In a given year, it produces more films than Hollywood. Bollywood films dominated the Indian box office for a long time, but Avengers: Endgame, a Hollywood blockbuster, smashed the record a few years ago.

Only a few Hollywood pictures were released in India in the 1990s, and they never posed a threat to Bollywood cinema. Some of the films that had limited but sold-out showings throughout the country included Baby’s Day Out, Home Alone, Saturday Night Fever, The Sound Of Music, Jaws, Return Of The Dragon, Pretty Woman, and Indiana Jones.

In 1994, however, Jurassic Park (dubbed in Hindi) was the first film to gross approximately Rs 7 crore. In 1994, few Hindi films were able to amass such a large sum of money. Then, in 1998, the successful Hollywood film Titanic, which had caused a worldwide uproar, was released in India. Despite this, the film fell short of the box office record set by Shah Rukh Khan’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai that year.

The Leonardo DiCaprio starrer allegedly made Rs 29-30 crore at the box office, although it fell short of Karan Johar’s film, which made roughly Rs 46 crore in 1998. Big budget pictures like Harry Potter, 2012, The Lord Of The Rings, Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, and Avatar were projected to outperform Bollywood flicks and become the year’s highest-grossing films, but this did not happen.

In fact, for nearly a century, Bollywood films had an unrivaled box office collection in India. In 2012, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame shattered the record and became the year’s highest-grossing film. In six days, the Marvel superhero flick grossed Rs 244 crore net and Rs 290 crore gross.

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