Bollywood achieved India’s highest-grossing film after a long gap. It is widely known that the Bollywood industry is a vast market, and Bollywood has dominated Indian cinema from the beginning. Still, recently, South Cinema started making pan-India movies and gave tough competition to the Hindi film industry. Bollywood achieved India’s highest-grossing film after a long gap.
From the Baahubali Series, South Indian films started dominating Bollywood. Bollywood did not score India’s biggest grosser for a calendar year in recent years. Finally, the industry scored with Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan this year.
In 2016, Bollywood scored the biggest grosser with Amir Khan’s Dangal; after that, no more highest grossers came from the industry. Bollywood achieved India’s highest-grossing film after a long gap.
The List of Highest Grossers for India in Last Six Years
2017 – Baahubali 2
2018 – 2 Point 0
2019 – Avengers End Game
2020 – Corona year
2021 – Pushpa
2022 – KGF 2
In 2023, everyone also expected the South film. Prabhas’s Salaar will be the highest grosser for the year, but Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan ended up as the highest grosser this year, with a grossing of over 1150Cr+.
![This is the 1st 200 Cr grosser for Mohanlal in his career, and it is also the 2nd Mollywood film to cross 200 Cr mark after Manjummel Boys. The next target for the film is to cross the full run of Manjummel boys [240 Cr] . By looking at the trend, L2E will cross Manjummel Boys easily. The film has very good chances to do 300 Cr in the full run. The fans of Malayalam cinema are delighted as Empuraan joined the 200 Cr club within just 5 days.](https://tracktollywood.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2025/03/Mohanlals-Empuraan-crosses-200-Cr-in-just-5-days-265x198.jpg.webp "Empuraan: 200 Cr in 5 Days")
![The film has collected 175 Cr gross worldwide on the opening weekend, and it broke Chhaava's record [155 Cr ] and became the biggest weekend for Indian cinema this year. Not only in India, the film also became the biggest overseas grosser of this year with the 1st weekend alone by crossing Chhaava's full run collections.](https://tracktollywood.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2025/03/empuraan-review-272543106-16x9_0-265x198.jpg.webp "Empuraan Beats Chhaava to set a New Record")
![Mohanlal's latest big-budget film, L2 Empuraan, is showing a superb hold at the box office. Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film had an excellent pre-release hype, and it received a stunning opening on the first day. Empuraan's two-day worldwide box office collections are out now. The mixed reviews impacted the film's collections in other languages, but the Malayalam version is going on a sensational note. The film had a record-breaking first day [67 Cr - 68 Cr gross], and it collected 35 Cr gross on the 2nd day, which takes the total gross to 102 Crore for 2 days.](https://tracktollywood.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2025/03/Mohanlals-L2-Empuraan-Overseas-Business-265x198.jpg.webp "Empuraan Two Days Worldwide Box Office Collections")