A quick update on the happenings in Bollywood in Quarter 2 of 2014

Quarter 2 of 2014 is over so its time to look back at the happenings of Q2 of 2014 in our Hindi film industry.

Business of Bollywood in April:

The month of April started with David Dhawan's comedy "Main Tera Hero" , which turns out to be a hit for his popular music and fantastic comic performance by the leading man Varun Dhwan. It registers more than 50 crore collections at the box office. This movie was followed by "Bhootnath Returns", which took a good start but later its collection does not picked up that much. Still it made an average collection. 
On the third week of April comes the first 100 crore grosser of the 2nd quarter of 2014 which was "2 States". It was based on the bestseller by Chetan Bhagat with the same name. The fresh pairing of Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, a solid performance by the supporting cast, an entertaining story, nice music and the holiday season of Good Friday all worked for the film togather and it enters in the 100 crore club. After that no big movies came in April as the IPL season started from the mid of April.

Business of Bollywood in May:

The influence of IPL continued for the most of the part of the month of May.So for the first few weeks only some small budget low profile movies got released which performed very poorly at the box office as per expectations. But for a change on the last week of May, a movie came which gave some expectations to the trade analysts. It was "Heropanti". This movie was the launch vehicle for two newcomers Tiger Shroff and Kirti Shanon. This movie had created a lot of pre-release hype because of the dare devil action sequences performed by Tiger Shroff. Also the music of the movie was popular before its release.When it released it performed beyond the expectations of anyone and becomes a super hit. For a fresh leading couple it was a big achievement to register more than 50 crore collection.

Business of Bollywood in June:

After a long phase of low profile movies during the IPL seasons, in the month of June it started raining of big budget movies from which box office can expect a lot. This h0liday season started with Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha starrer "Holiday-A Soldier Is Never Off Duty". It performs very well at the box office and make it to the 100 crore club. In fact this is the highest grossing movie of 2014 so far with the collection of 112 crores approx. After that the movie which earned good money was Sajid Khan directed "Humshakals" though the critics had no expectations from it but the trade analysts had. Although it made a collection of around 60 crores but considering its budget it was a not a profitable collection. Then the quarter end closed with another 100 crore movie. This time it was "Ek Villain". With this movie the leading actors Siddharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor made their debut in the 100 crore club at the same time it was the first for director Mohit Suri and production house Balaji Films too. The extensive marketing and the hit music were the major USP of this film.

So overall it shows Q2 was better than Q1 as per the box office collections. Q2 has three 100 crore films and 2 more hits which made more than 50 crore.

Top Performances of Q2 2014
Actors-

• Varun Dhawan - Main Tera Hero
• Amitabh Bachhan  - Bhootnath Returns
• Parth Bhalerao - Bhootnath Returns
• Boman Irani - Bhootnath Returns
• Rajkumar Rao  - Citylights
• Akshay Kumar - Holiday - A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
• Sharib Hashmi - Filmistaan
• Siddarth Malhotra - Ek Villain

Actresses-

• Alia Bhatt - 2 States
• Amrita Singh - 2 States
• Revathy - 2 States

Top Songs of Q2 2014

• Palat/ Besharmi Ki Height - Main Tera Hero
• Party To Banti Hai - Bhootnath Returns
• Offo / Locha E Ulfat / Mast Magan - 2 States 
• Whistle Baja / Rabba - Heropanti
• Tu Hi To hai / Shairaana  - Holiday- A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
• Caller Tune / Piya Ke Bazaar Me - Humshakals
• Galiyaan / Banjaara / Zaroorat - Ek Villain