12 Big Box Office Hits That Released In January To Welcome The Year

While the first month of the year is believed to instill positive energies all-round the globe, the cinema industry is vary of the sentiment in a lot of ways. The first month of the year isn’t the season a lot of producers risk releasing their movies in. Post the festive release slot around Christmas and New Year’s, while the box office takes a breather to accommodate bigger releases later, January usually makes way for relatively moderate movies.

Although the Republic Day weekend has time and again come to the rescue by shedding out big hits, it still however isn’t enough to make up. Anyway, let’s take a look at the positives today. The last two decades have been party to some of the biggest box office hits of the particular year starting from as early as 1993. So let’s take a look 12 of those successful movies that released in the month of January:

Raja Babu – 21 Jan 1994

8.30 Crores – Super Hit

Karan Arjun – 13 Jan 1995

26 Crores - Blockbuster

Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain - 22 Jan 1999

17 Crores – Super Hit

Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai - 14 Jan 2000

44 Crores - Blockbuster

Jism – 17 Jan 2003

8.14 Crores - Hit

Rang De Basanti - 26 Jan 2006

56 Crores – Super Hit

Guru – 12 Jan 2007

46 Crores - Hit

Yamla Pagla Deewana - 14 Jan 2011

54 Crores - Hit

Agneepath – 26 Jan 2012

120 Crores – Super Hit

Race 2 – 25 Jan 2013

100 Crores - Hit

Airlift – 22 Jan 2016

124 Crores – Super Hit

Kaabil – 25 Jan 2017

103 Crores – Super Hit