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Pushpa 2: The rule
Pushpa 2: The rule was one of the highest grossing Indian movies 2024. After the first movie, Pushpa, played by Allu Arjun, has become a sandalwood smuggler. He smuggles his sandalwood to Japan in containers, where he is hidden in one of them. He is discovered in the container, but falls into the water after being shot. But Pushpa survives and tells the Japanese drug dealer Hiroshi that the consignment belongs to him.
Hiroshi gives the money to him and asks him to remove all the intermediaries in their drug dealings. Pushpa uses the money for his nefarious motives. What happens in the future of Pushpa as a smuggler will be revealed to you in the movie.
This movie was made on a budget of 400-500 crores but grossed 1,750 crores at the box office, making it the highest grosser of 2024.
Number 2 on the list of the highest grossing Indian movies 2024 is Kalki 2898 AD, which was a science fiction movie but with a mythological background. In this movie, Prabhas was the main actor who wanted to move to Complex, a haven, and was doing all the bad deeds for it to earn the money.
Amitabh Bachchan played the character of Aswathama, who was Guru Dronacharya’s son and had been cursed to be immortal by Lord Krishna. He protects Sumati(Deepika Padukone), who is pregnant with God Kalki. This movie earned 1040-1100 crores at the box office.
Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank
Stree 2: Sarkate ka aatank was a hilarious horror comedy movie that also earned a massive amount of 830-900 crore rupees at the box office. This movie was 3rd on the list of the highest grossing Indian movies 2024. This movie shows the aftermath after the Chanderi village had been freed from Stree. Rajkumar Rao, aka Vicky’s village Chanderi is now plagued by Sarkata, who is a headless ghost and roams with his head held by one hand. He kidnaps all the girls with a modern value system from the village.
Apparently, he is the one who created Stree. He had burnt her and her lover alive. In this movie, all the initial actors like Shraddha Kapoor, Abhishek Banerjee, Pankaj Tripathi, and Aparshakti Khurana(Bittu) are reprising their roles.
Jana, played by Abhishek Banerjee, has delivered a memorable performance, having returned to the Chanderi village after going to Delhi to prepare for the IAS exam. Now, when Vicky and Bittu find him, he refuses to aid them due to his mother’s fear. But Vicky takes Jana to Stree’s lair, and upon returning, the latter is bitten by Sarkata. Now, Jana gets visions of where Sarkata is holding all the kidnapped women as hostages and is unable to sleep either.
Jana’s mother is perplexed by his condition and refuses for Vicky and Bittu to take him on their adventure. In the movie, Stree and Vicky discover where they can encounter Sarkata because of Jana’s visions. Vicky has a sword that can be used to kill Sarkata. In the end, there is also the appearance of Varun Dhawan as the Bhediya, who fights Sarkata. The movie had an enthralling plot.
The Greatest of All Time
4th on the list of highest grossing Indian movies 2024 is The Greatest of All Time. It is a South Indian movie dubbed in Hindi. It is a patriotic movie in which a special anti-terrorism squad(SATS) wants to get uranium from their former chief, Rajiv Menon, accused of treachery in Kenya. The SATS steal the uranium from him and annihilate the train so that all the travellers perish. The team’s members live normal lives in Delhi, where their family members have no clue about their actual profession.
When the head of the team, Gandhi, takes his family, including his pregnant wife Anu and his son Jeevan, to Bangkok to carry out a mission, he loses his son. His wife stops talking to him after the incident. She also stops living with him and takes custody of their newborn daughter. Whether Jeevan is alive or not will be known to you once you watch the movie. This movie is currently being streamed on Netflix.
Devara:Part 1
The fifth on the list is Devara:Part 1. NTR Junior had a double role in the movie, as the father Devara, who is the chieftain of a village and as his son Vara. Jahnvi Kapoor plays the love interest of Vara. Devara is against smuggling from the merchant ships to evade customs duties.
He fights with Bhaira because Devara turns against smuggling. In this movie, Devara stops smuggling because villagers are illegally smuggling arms used in thefts. Once, when a villager Irfan, is caught by the coast guard police, he reveals the objects,i.e. guns and is killed. Devara decides to stop smuggling from then onwards.
When an attempt is made on his life because of Bhaira, who is also a chieftain, Devara disappears. But Devara attacks villagers who enter the waters to smuggle. Vara is not like his father; he is very shy and tells his family that Devara has left them.
When Vara’s sister is assaulted by Bhaira’s men, he hits them. But in the morning, when one of the assailants is found dead, Vara pleads with Bhaira to forgive him. Bhaira killed one of the injured assailants so that Vara could be forced into smuggling. It is discovered that Devara is not stopping villagers from smuggling, but it is Vara himself. Devara has long been dead. Watch the movie to find out who killed Devara.
Bhool Buliaya 3
6th on the list of highest-grossing Indian movies 2024 is Bhool Bhulaiya 3, which saw Kartik Aryan return as a fraud ghostbuster, Rooh Baba.
In this movie, Kartik Aryan has to fight a spirit haunting a castle in Raktghat, West Bengal. He has no idea how to capture ghosts, and his secret is discovered by Meera (Tripti Dimri) and her uncle. They blackmail him and ask him to accompany them to the ghostly castle. Rooh Baba looks exactly like the dead king Debandranath; therefore he is chosen for the role of evicting the ghost of Manjulika from the castle.
Meera tells Rooh Baba that Manjulika killed her stepbrother, Debendranath, to ascend the throne and, as a result, was immolated by the king. So, her spirit roams in the castle. Rooh Baba also finds Mallika, a fortress restorer, and Mandira, a police officer, who are the reincarnations of sisters Manjulika and Anjulika, the princesses of the fortress. But no one can recognize them because there are no pictures of the sisters in the castle. Mallika and Mandira are possessed one by one by the spirit roaming in the castle.
In the end, Rooh Baba discovers that these women are princesses and that the spirit haunting the palace is not of them because they have been reborn. A buyer comes to buy the fortress, but he is killed on his way back by the spirit. Watch the movie to discover the ghostly spirit haunting the castle. The movie grossed 370-425 crores at the box office. Karthik Aryan was applauded for his performance in this movie.
Singham Again
This movie had an assortment of movie stars, including Arjun Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh Bhavnani(Simba), Akshay Kumar(Suryavanshi), Tiger Shroff and Kareena Kapoor. Arjun Kapoor(Danger Lanka) kidnaps Kareena Kapoor(Avni), who is playing the wife of Bajirao Singham. Deepika Padukone has a strong role as DCP Shakti Shetty, who captures three men in Madurai transporting drugs from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, for a don named Danger Lanka(Arjun Kapoor). When they are locked in her Mumbai jail, the don’s men attack it and get their men released. Avni goes to Rameshwaram to collect some shot material for her production Ramlila accompanied by her friend Mrigya.
On her way back to Mumbai, she is abducted by Danger Lanka. Now, Singham has to get her released with the help of Simba and Suryavanshi. Although this movie was 7th on the list of the highest grossing Indian movies 2024, the film was overhyped. It only earned 390 crores made on a massive budget of 350-375 crores. Most of the movie critics felt that the movie lost its plot with so many actors, a complex screenplay, and the inclusion of unnecessary heavy action in the movie. This movie was meant for the fans of Rohit Shetty and Ajay Devgan.
Fighter
8th on the list of the highest grossing Indian movies 2024 is Fighter, starring Hritik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, and Anil Kapoor. Hritik Roshan’s character Squadron Leader Shamsher Pathania is known for his daredevil stunts with the fighter planes. He has a sour relationship with the group captain, with Anil Kapoor’s character, Rocky, because he was earlier engaged to his sister, who died in a mission because of Pathania.
Now, Mini is Minal Thakur, played by Deepika Padukone, who is called to join a team. She is put together with Pathania, along with Sartaj Gill(Karan Singh Grover), on a team called Air Dragons to fight terrorists. There are three other members on the team, Basheer Khan(Akshay Oberoi), Rajan Unnithan and Sukhdeep Singh. The movie has shown the Pulwama attack in which Pakistan attacked an Indian bus full of CRPF soldiers.
After the Pulwama attack, the Air Dragons retaliate by attacking POK. But, Bashir, Sartaj and Shamsher cross the Pakistani border. There, Bashir and Sartaj are captured in Pakistan and tortured. Shamsher escapes in his fighter plane. The Pakistani government decides to return the two, but Bashir’s dead body is just sent. Then the Air Dragons decide to counter-attack to rescue Sartaj. This movie is also streaming on Netflix. This movie earned 350-360 crores at the box office. Hoping that these movies keep you entertained.
