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Bollywood's Independence Day weekend: one release is locked, the rest is noise

Awarapan 2 is confirmed for 14 August. Almost everything else being reported for the same weekend is either disputed by the trades or has never been officially dated at all.

The Bollywood Wave Desk8 Aug 20264 min

Features

How Bollywood's overseas box office actually works

Overseas grosses get quoted constantly and understood rarely. Here is what the number contains, what it leaves out, and why the diaspora market moves differently from the domestic one.

The Bollywood Wave Desk6 Aug 20262 min

Box Office

Twenty years of Bollywood overseas grosses, charted

We compiled every Hindi release that crossed $5m overseas since 2006. The trend line says something different from the industry's own account of itself.

The Bollywood Wave Desk30 Jul 20261 min

Bollywood's Independence Day weekend: one release is locked, the rest is noise

How Bollywood's overseas box office actually works

Twenty years of Bollywood overseas grosses, charted

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