Question

""This sort of scenario has only been once before when in 1949 a Tamil film called Chandralekha was a huge hit in Tamil Nadu and then the film was remade into Hindi and was an even bigger grosser and was the highest grosser in India despite not being a film from the Hindi film industry. This film was the film in history of Indian cinema to cross 3 crore footfalls""

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https://www.boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=4397

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Then what will be the FOOTFALLS of ATBBs Like KISMET and RATTAN ???

Comments

The only reason BOI compared Bahubali with Chandralekha is because that movie was not outright Hindi. 5 years in the making, it was at that time the costliest Indian film & despite running for long, it didn't recover it's costs. Then they re-shot scenes in Hindi with slightly different actors from North & retained most of the footage from Tamil version.

Coming back to Kismet & Rattan. Those were ATBB's according to BOI's older data. Now when they update it, the list might change. There will be difference in it's final updated collection too. Nevertheless, they never spoke about footfalls for older films back then. It'll be tough but going by the above paragraph, they're fairly certain, footfalls of Kismet & Rattan did not do 3cr footfalls.

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But KISMET is ATBB ,,, According to many Sources

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They might still be. But will have to wait till BOI updating that. Or at least a separate post for ATBB or ATG alone would suffice.

They could be ATBB's & still not be the ones with high footfallsnlike Chandralekha.

Answer 1

I think it was KL Saigal's movie that used to run for at least a decade. He died cuz of alcoholism at the age of 43 . We need to research more, we can find the fact.