6 Times Hollywood Films Clashed With Bollywood And Emerged Winner
Hollywood films have a huge fan following in India and the Indian audiences love to watch the Hollywood offerings, sometimes even more than the Bollywood films. With a population of more than 130 crores, Hollywood studios and movie producers know the amount they can earn and plan out exclusive marketing campaigns for the release of their films in India.
Sometimes, these films perform even better than the films featuring biggest Bollywood stars and most of the Indian producers and studios try not to clash with a major Hollywood release as they know the kind of crazy popularity these films have in India. India is emerging as one of the major strongholds for Hollywood films and here are 6 times when the Hollywood films clashed with Bollywood and emerged a winner:
Jungle Book v/s Fan- While Jungle Book released a week early in India in order to avoid a clash with Fan, the final numbers were told a different story. Jungle Book is currently the highest grossing Hollywood film in India with collections of 183 Crores while Fan ended up earning 85 Crores.
Furious 7 v/s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy- The Vin Diesel starrer clashed at the box office with Vidya Balan starrer and emerged winner with earnings of 172 Crores in India while Byomkesh only grossed 34 Crores.
Captain America: Civil War v/s 1920 London- The former grossed 59.6 Crores at the box office while the latter managed to earn 21.4 crores.
Batman V Superman v/s Rocky Handsome- The DC comic's offering earned 69 Crores in India while John Abraham starrer grossed 30 Crores.
Fate of the Furious v/s BegumJaan- The latest offering of Fast and Furious saga grossed 127 Crores in India while Vidya Balan starrer managed to earn 27.7 Crore.
XXX: Return Of Xander Cage v/s OK Jaanu- The Vin Diesel-Deepika Padukone starrer earned 51.6 Crores while OK Jaanu earned 29 Crores.