The box office in Hindi circuits has been a disaster since cinemas opened in October 2020. Major films have avoided the ticket counter as maskers believe the audience will not be there. The best we have seen post Coronavirus is 4 crore nett of SURAJ PE MANGAL BHARI.

This was actually the first new releases when cinemas reopened in October. SURAJ PE MANGAL BHARI has slowly crept up to the 4 crore nett mark but it took ten weeks to get there. The next best is WONDER WOMAN 1984 with 3.37 crore nett and then with around 3 crore nett it is VIJAY THE MASTER (dubbed version of Tamil film MASTER) which is a big GROSSSER in Tamil Nadu crossing the 100 crore nett mark but had no takers in Hindi circuits.

VIJAY THE MASTER fetched over 15 crore for its rights but theatrically it was a token gesture release with satellite and digital being main reasons for the price and this 15 crore is being asked for satellite only. The Hindi version had a huge release in West Bengal of over 125 cinemas but it took the whole weekend to cross just 10 lakhs nett.

The Tamil version of MASTER did pretty well for a day or two in Mumbai city and some other centres of Maharashtra but that was about it and it also collected 3 crore nett. The all formats total in Hindi circuits was 6 crore nett nett apprx which makes it more than SURAJ PE MANGAL BHARI but like that WONDER WOMAN 1984 and TENET were even more. The only other films to get over 1 crore nett in Hindi are TENET and INDOO KI JAWANI.

The top ten grossers in hindi language post Covid are as follows and most of them are still running at places due to lack of new releases but collections are very limited.