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Released
2012 · FILM

Bol Bachchan

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
155 min
Language
HI
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Abbas Ali lives in Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, with his sister Sania. They are engaged in a legal battle over an ancestral property. However, the case does not go in their favor, and they lose. Their well-wisher, Shastri Chacha, advises and convinces them to migrate to his village, Ranakpur, where he promises Abbas a job at his employer's place. The employer is the influential Prithviraj Raghuvanshi. Abbas arrives in Ranakpur and, while rescuing a child trapped inside a temple, he breaks open the lock of an ancestral temple. Fate takes an important turn in Abbas' life as the entire village, including Prithviraj's step-brother Vikrant, opposes his actions. Prithviraj arrives and resolves the situation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Steven H BernardShot by DudleyScored by Atul GogavaleDesigned by Narendra Rahurikar

Box Office

2012 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$21.0M

Budget$6.3M
Worldwide gross$21.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.2M 6% of worldwide · International: $19.8M (94%)

Opening weekend: $562K 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $775K64% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 98 theaters

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