1000 Crore Club

1000 Crore Club is an unofficial designation by the Indian film trade and the media, related to Indian language films that have grossed ₹1000 crore (10 billion Indian rupees or US$million) or more either within India or worldwide. The 1000 crore club is preceded by the 100 crore club. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) became the first Indian film to gross over ₹1000 crore worldwide. It grossed ₹1430 crore across all languages in India and grossed ₹1850 crore worldwide. It stands as the highest-grossing film in India till date. It was followed by Dangal, which is the highest-grossing Indian film, expanding the club to 1900 crore (including domestic gross of 350 crore), before creating the club, and becoming the fifth highest-grossing non-English language film of all time. In 2022, two films released in the span of a month, RRR and K.G.F: Chapter 2, grossed over ₹1,000 crore at the global box office. The club expanded with Pathaan (2023), Jawan (2023) and  Kalki 2898 AD (2024)

History
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which released on 28 April 2017, became the first Indian film to cross the inr 10000000000 and inr 14000000000 marks, in May 2017, and briefly became the highest-grossing Indian film worldwide, before being overtaken by Dangal. Baahubali 2 is the highest-grossing film in India, where it has grossed inr 14170000000. Overseas, it is the highest-grossing Indian film in the United States ($21 million), where it became the first Indian film to cross $20 million, as well as becoming the first Indian film to gross over $10 million in the United Arab Emirates.

Dangal (2016), following its Chinese release on 5 May 2017, became the highest-grossing Indian film and fifth highest-grossing non-English language film of all time, crossing ₹2000 crore (US$million) worldwide, making it the first Indian film to gross $300 million worldwide and one of the top 30 highest-grossing 2016 films (surpassing the $299.5 million gross of Alice Through the Looking Glass). Dangal is also the highest-grossing sports film of 2017, and Disney's fourth highest-grossing film of 2017.

Dangal is the first Indian film to exceed $100 million and ₹1,000 crore overseas, crossing ₹1400 crore (US$million) in international markets, including ¥1.29 billion (US$ million) in China and ₹41 crore (US$million) in Taiwan. Its overseas gross in China more than doubled its domestic gross of $84.4 million in India. In China, Dangal became the 16th highest-grossing film of all time, the 8th highest-grossing foreign film, the highest-grossing non-Hollywood foreign film (surpassing Japanese anime film Your Name), the leggiest box office release (cumulative gross 83 times its opening day haul, surpassing Zootopia), had the most consecutive days with a ¥10 million (US$ million) gross (surpassing the 30 days of Transformers: Age of Extinction) and $1 million gross (38 days), was the highest-grossing film in May 2017 (ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), and is the year's second highest-grossing foreign film (after The Fate of the Furious). In 47 days, the film had 44,445,270 admissions at the Chinese box office. Aamir Khan's earnings from Dangal is estimated to be ₹300 crore (US$million), the highest payday for a non-Hollywood actor.

S.S. Rajamouli, the director of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) and RRR (2022), is the only Indian film director to direct two films that earned over ₹10 billion. Shah Rukh Khan, the lead actor of Pathaan (2023) and Jawan (2023), and Prabhas, the lead actor of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) and Kalki 2898 AD (2024), are the only two actors to lead two films that earned over ₹10 billion. Additionally, Deepika Padukone starred as a supporting character in three films that earned over ₹10 billion: Pathaan (2023), Jawan (2023), and Kalki 2898 AD (2024).

List
This is a list of the films in the 1000 crore club, adjusted for inflation. For the list of the highest-grossing Indian films in terms of nominal value (without adjusted inflation), see List of highest-grossing Indian films.

Milestones
See 100 Crore Club for milestones between ₹100 crore and ₹1000 crore