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