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Released
2010 · FILM

Karthik Calling Karthik

A reclusive man's life transforms when mysterious early-morning phone calls from someone named Karthik spark a chain of events that lead to unexpected success and a growing attraction to his coworker.

Directed by
Runtime
135 min
Language
HI
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

A reclusive individual who has faced considerable hardship finds success and even captures the affection of his attractive coworker after receiving enigmatic phone calls in the early morning from an unknown person.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Aarti BajajShot by Hashim MohammedScored by Karsh KaleDesigned by K K Muralidharan

Box Office

2010 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$3.9M

Budget$2.8M
Worldwide gross$3.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $208K

Peak 70 theaters

Also known as

  • Karthik llamando a Karthikes

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