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Released
2008 · FILM

Singh Is King

Happy Singh, a naïve Punjabi villager dispatched to Australia on a modest family mission, must outwit rival gangs and win a fierce lover’s trust to seize control of the country’s criminal underworld.

Summer 2008: The gang of Punjab arrives with a bang!

Directed by
Runtime
135 min
Language
HI
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the King of the Australian underworld.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Prashant Singh RathoreShot by Sanjay F GuptaScored by Pritam ChakrabortyDesigned by Stewart Burnside

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$29.2M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$29.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2.2M 7% of worldwide · International: $27.0M (93%)

Opening weekend: $44K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $44K2% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 112 theaters

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