TALVAR has emerged the highest grossing art house film in recent years. Art house is basically films without the stars and music and don't conform to the normal genres of action, comedy and romance. The top five are as follows.
1. Talvar - 30 crore apprx (4 weeks)
2. Peepli Live - 29,23,00,000
3. The Lunchbox - 20,85,00,000
4. Paan Singh Tomar - 14,61,00,000
5. Manjhi - The Mountain Man - 13,53,00,000

PEEPLI LIVE had the support of Aamir Khan's name attached to it. So TALVAR's 30 crore figure becomes a big number. The best of the other art type releases have managed just about 20 crore nett.