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Released
2017 · FILM

Secret Superstar

A talented teenage girl dreams of stardom and secretly uploads powerful songs to YouTube under a hidden persona, but must outwit an abusive father and a restrictive society to claim her voice and freedom.

Dream dekhna toh basic hota hai.

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Written by
Runtime
150 min
Language
HI
DramaMusic

Synopsis

A teenage singer-songwriter, who is enduring domestic abuse, gains attention as a YouTube sensation after uploading a video in which she conceals her identity.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Hemanti SarkarShot by Anil MehtaScored by Amit TrivediDesigned by Pallavi Bagga

Box Office

2017 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 480× 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

$137.4M

Budget$286K
Worldwide gross$137.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $122.0M 89% of worldwide · International: $15.4M (11%)

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