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Released
2017 · FILM

Hindi Medium

A privileged Delhi couple fights classist prejudice and linguistic snobbery to secure a spot for their daughter in an elite English‑medium school, risking everything to break the barriers of language and status.

Runtime
132 min
Language
HI
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Mita and Raj Batra, an affluent couple from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, are struggling to secure admission for their daughter in an English-medium school. However, they face a significant challenge: their primary language is Hindi, and the school's elitist attitudes prevent Hindi-speaking families from being accepted.

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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 A Sreekar PrasadShot by Laxman UtekarScored by Amar MohileDesigned by Mustafa Stationwala

Box Office

2017 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 16× 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

$52.4M

Budget$3.2M
Worldwide gross$52.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $32.8M 63% of worldwide · International: $19.5M (37%)

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