DHAMAAL 4 has managed to stay afloat in the fourth week as it collects 5.50 crore nett which is a drop of 70% from the last week but you take that with the release of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. The film collected well over the weekend and got a good bump up on Tuesday due to the discounted rates.

The film now stands at around 156.50 crore and should finish at around 160 crore nett as it will get in another week before the releases of AWARAPAN 2 and BATWARA 1947 next week. This week there is not much competition with the main film being OHH MY DOG though it should do better than small Hindi films over the last few weeks. The film had paid previews on Thursday.

DHAMAAL 4 has reached around 52 crore nett in Mumbai but this is still less than TOTAL DHAMAAL as that did 56 crore nett. However, the all India total will surpass TOTAL DHAMAAL by around 10 crore nett. As compared to the last DHAMAAL film, the Delhi/UP circuit has done much better as has East Punjab.

The collections of DHAMAAL 4 till date are as follows.

Week One - 94,91,00,000

Week Two - 38,13,00,000

Week Three - 17,93,00,000

Week Four - 5,50,00,00,000 apprx

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DHAMAAL 4 will be the fifth highest grossing film in the comedy genre and probably the second if we take out the ones which came on a holiday period. HOUSEFULL 4 and GOLMAAL AGAIN were on Diwali and GOOD NEWWZ was New Year. The Diwali period is particularly beneficial for a comedy genre film. It is beneficial for all but a little extra for a comedy film that works.

HOUSEFULL 5 is actually the highest outside a Holiday period but that film was an underperformer due to costs and falling short of the earlier film in the franchise. Despite comedy being among the 4/5 main genres, it only came into its in the 90's as before that there were not many comedy films made as they had their limitations. Today they have limitations as well because the biggest ones are at 200 crore nett only that too in holiday periods. At the same time, it is one of the safest genres as can be seen with results of WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE and DHAMAAL 4.

The list below are the top ten films in the comedy genre not including the ones which rely on the horror factor which is a factor that can take comedy to the bigger collections. Once the horror is sold then it becomes more of a horror film than comedy. The one in last position in the list is READY and this one is actually the biggest comedy genre film released post 2000.

1. Housefull 4 - 205.60 crore 

2. Golmaal Again - 205.50 crore 

3. Good Newwz - 196.33 crore 

4. Housefull 5 - 162.07 crore

6. Total Dhamaal - 150.07 crore

7. Dream Girl - 139.37 crore

8. Badhaai Ho - 134.46 crore

9. Welcome To The Jungle - 130.75 crore 

10. Ready - 120.72 crore