Highest-grossing Bollywood films

This is a ranking of the highest grossing Indian films which includes films from various languages based on the conservative global box office estimates as reported by reputable sources. There is no official tracking of figures and sites publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.

Indian films have been screened in markets around the world since the early 20th century. As of 2003, there are markets in over 90 countries where films from India are screened. During the first decade of the 21st century, there was a steady rise in the ticket price, a tripling in the number of theaters and an increase in the number of prints of a film being released, which led to a large increase in the box office collections.

The following list shows India's top 15 highest-grossing films, which include films from all the Indian languages. The figures are not adjusted for inflation.

Notes:

Bengali cinema was the center of Indian cinema in the 1930s, and accounted for a quarter of India's film output in the 1950s.Cinema in South India accounted for nearly half of India's cinema halls in the 1940s. In 2009, South India accounted for 75% of film revenues in India. As of 2014, Bollywood (Hindi cinema) represents 43% of Indian net box office revenue, while Tamil and Telugu cinema represent 36%, and the rest of the regional cinema constitutes 21%.

The Bengali language film industry is centered in the Tollygunge neighborhood of the city of Kolkata, West Bengal and has been known by the nickname Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood , since 1932.

The Bhojpuri cinema produces films in the Bhojpuri language. It caters audience from eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar and Nepal.

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