Three separate pages, one shared scorecard. Koimoi runs live box office trackers for Bollywood, Sandalwood and Punjabi cinema through 2026, and all three grade films on the exact same six-point scale: Super Duper Hit, Super-Hit, Plus, Average, Losing and Flop.
A Super Duper Hit needs 200 percent returns and a lifetime of Rs 100 crore or more. A Super-Hit clears investment and then some, more than 50 percent extra. Plus just means the film recovered its budget and limped into profit. Average means it broke even, nothing more. Losing means it didn't recover costs but stayed under a 50 percent hole. Flop is anything worse than that.
Apply that grid across three very different industries and the comparison gets interesting fast. The Bollywood page folds in Hindi-dubbed South releases as part of the Hindi box office pool, which means a Telugu or Tamil film's dubbed version competes for hit-flop status alongside straight Hindi productions. Sandalwood's tracker covers Kannada cinema from mass entertainers to what Koimoi calls content-driven indie films, treating them under one common lens rather than splitting mainstream from arthouse. And the Punjabi page frames its whole industry, still called Pollywood here, as a business actively expanding beyond Punjab into the rest of India and overseas markets.
The catch in the fine print
Here's the part that trade watchers should sit with. Every one of these pages carries the same disclaimer: the numbers are estimates pulled from various sources, and Koimoi says outright it hasn't independently verified them. That's not a small caveat for a site whose entire value proposition is calling films Hits or Flops.
It's worth remembering because box office reporting in India runs almost entirely on trade grapevine, distributor leaks and producer-friendly rounding, not audited studio filings the way Hollywood tracks things through Comscore. A film's opening weekend number floating around Twitter by Saturday night is usually somebody's estimate, dressed up as fact by the time it hits a headline. Koimoi's disclaimer is at least honest about that gap. Most outlets running similar trackers don't bother printing it.
What this means practically is that verdicts like Hit or Flop, when you see them attached to a specific film this year, should be read as trade consensus rather than settled arithmetic. Two trackers can and do disagree on whether the same film crossed into Super-Hit territory or stalled at Plus, because they're working off different estimates to begin with.
The pages themselves keep updating through the year as more 2026 releases land and settle into their final numbers. Whether any single Kannada, Punjabi or Hindi title actually crosses from provisional Hit to confirmed Super-Hit status will depend on which estimate you're trusting, and for now, nobody's offering an audited one.




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