The year 2021 was the worst ever seen in history for the Hindi film industry with Sooryavanshi being the only HIT film and no other successes. There were BLOCKBUSTER films like Spiderman - No Way Home and Pushpa but they were from Hollywood and the Telugu film industry respectively. 

There ws 57 releases from the Hindi film industry in 2021 compared to 59 releases in 2020 and the 57 films cumulated around 490 crore nett while in 2020 it was 745 crore nett from the 59 releases. The disaster year was due to the pandemic but also the films that did releases at the fag end of 2021 were also not up to the mark.

The year was so bad that becoming a FLOP was actually a minor achievement. Sooryavanshi was a HIT while Antim - The Final Truth, Tadap and Roohi were the flop films and every other single film was a DISASTER. The problem with these films was they did okay for a week or so but could not do anything after. The saving grace was the revenue from digital rights which meant that despite very poor theatrical results the losses were not huge. 83 lost a record amount of money while Satyameva Jayate 2 also lost a reasonable amount but most others got away with it.

There were releases like Bell Bottom which had high costs and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui which had reasonably high costs but did not suffer much due to good prices for digital. This is despite very poor theatrical performance. Going forward things will get better as covid now looks behind us though you can never be 100% sure.

It will probably take time to get back to pre covid levels as the content has to adjust to the new box office scenario post covid. The larger Hindi film audience is in the states and not in the metros while most films were targetting metros pre covid. The footfalls were dropping pre covid and a change in content was going to be needed anyway to hold footfalls and all covid19 has done is accelerated this need for change. The classifications for 2021 is as follows.

All Time Blockbuster

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Super Blockbuster

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Blockbuster

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Super Hit

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Hit

Sooryavanshi

Semi Hit

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Average

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Below Average

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Flop

Antim - The Final Truth

Tadap

Roohi

Disaster

The Rest (53 films)