This is a list of Bollywood films that were released in 2016.
Dangal emerged as the highest-grossing Hindi film ever.
Box office collection The highest-grossing Bollywood films released in 2016, by worldwide box office gross revenue, are as follows:
+Highest-grossing films of 2016Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross Ref. 1 Dangal UTV Motion Pictures 2 Sultan Yash Raj Films 3 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Fox Star Studios 4RustomZee Studios 5 M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Fox Star Studios 6 Airlift Viacom 18 Motion PicturesT-Series 7 Housefull 3 Eros International 8 Fan Yash Raj Films 9 Kapoor & Sons Fox Star Studios 10ShivaayReliance Entertainment
Dangal grossed over worldwide and is currently the highest-grossing Indian film of all time. Sultan has grossed over worldwide and is the 15th highest-grossing Indian film of all time.
January–March OpeningTitleDirector Cast Genre Studio Ref.JAN8Chhota Bheem Himalayan Adventures Rajiv Chilaka Animation Green Gold Animation Wazir Bejoy Nambiar Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Manav Kaul, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Murali Sharma, Avtar Gill Thriller Reliance Entertainment, Vinod Chopra Films, Getaway Films 15 Chalk n Duster Jayant Gilatar Shabana Azmi, Juhi Chawla, Divya Dutta, Zarina Wahab, Jackie Shroff, Arya Babbar, Richa Chadha Drama Sony Pictures India, Surani Pictures Rebellious Flower Krishan Hooda Prince Shah, Shashank Singh, Mantra Mugdha, Kirti Adarkar, Bachchan Pachera, Shaneel Sinha Biopic Zenin Multimedia Productions 22 Airlift Raja Krishna Menon Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Purab Kohli, Ferena Wazeir, Gunjan Malhotra War/Thriller T-Series Films, Hari Om Entertainment, Cape of Good Films, Emmay Entertainment, Abundantia Entertainment, Viacom18 Motion Pictures Jugni Shefali Bhushan Sugandha Garg, Siddhant Behl, Sadhana Singh, Anuritta K Jha, Samir SharmaMusical drama PVR Pictures, Dhun Productions Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 Umesh Ghadge Tushar Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani, Mandana Karimi, Meghna Naidu, Darshan Jariwala, Krushna Abhishek, Claudia Ciesla, Riteish Deshmukh, Gizele Thakral, VJ Andy, Danny Saru Adult comedy Balaji Motion Pictures, ALT Entertainment 29 Saala Khadoos Sudha Kongara Prasad R. Madhavan, Ritika Singh, Zakir Hussain Sports UTV Motion Pictures, Tricolour Films, Rajkumar Hirani Films, YNOT Studios Mastizaade Milap Milan Zaveri Tushar Kapoor, Vir Das, Sunny Leone, Shaad Randhawa, Riteish Deshmukh, Gizele Thakral, Bruna Abdullah Adult comedy Pen Studios, Panorama Studios, Pritish Nandy Communications FEB5Sanam Teri Kasam Radhika Rao, Vinay Sapru Mawra Hocane, Harshvardhan Rane, Anurag Sinha, Shraddha Das Romance Eros International, Soham Rockstar Entertainment, Jhoom Jhoom Productions Ghayal: Once Again Sunny Deol Sunny Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Aanchal Munjal, Daina Khan, Shivam Patil, Rishabh Arora, Abhilash Kumar Action/drama Reliance Entertainment, B4U Motion Pictures, PVR Cinemas, Sunny Sounds, Vijayta Films12 Fitoor Abhishek Kapoor Aditya Roy Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, Ajay Devgn, Aditi Rao Hydari, Akshay Oberoi, Lara Dutta, Rahul Bhatt Romance/drama UTV Motion Pictures, Guy In The Sky Pictures Sanam Re Divya Khosla Kumar Pulkit Samrat, Yami Gautam, Urvashi Rautela, Rishi Kapoor, Bharti Singh, Shreyas Pardiwalla Romance T-Series Films19 Direct IshqRajiv S. Ruia Rajneesh Duggal, Nidhi Subbaiah, Arjun Bijlani Drama Baba Motion Pictures Ishq Forever Sameer Sippy Krishna Chaturvedi, Ruhi Singh, Javed Jaffrey, Lisa Ray Drama Friday Cine Entertainment LoveShhuda Vaibhav Mishra Girish Kumar, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Benaf Dadachandji, Yash Pandit Romance Galani Entertainments Neerja Ram Madhvani Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Shekhar RavjianiBiopic/drama Fox Star Studios, Bling Unplugged 26 Dhara 302 Jitender Singh Narukal Rufy Khan, Dipti Dhotre, Gulshan Pandey Actiom/drama AligarhHansal MehtaManoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao Biopic/drama Eros International, Karma Features Bollywood DiariesK.D. SatyamRaima Sen, Ashish Vidyarthi, Salim Diwan, Karuna Pandey, Vineet Kumar Singh Drama Zee Studios, Rehab Pictures, Eagle Eye Entertainment Love Shagun Sandesh Nayak Anuj Sachdeva, Nidhi Subbaiah, Manit Joura Romance/comedy Saanvi Nayak Films Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive Abhishek Sharma Manish Paul, Sikander Kher, Pradhuman Singh, Sugandha Ram Comedy Phantom Films, Walkwater Media, Shivantika Productions MAR4 Zubaan Mozez Singh Vicky Kaushal, Sarah Jane Dias, Raghav Chanana Drama Wave Cinemas, Metamozez Entertainment, Sikhya Entertainment Jai Gangaajal Prakash Jha Priyanka Chopra, Anuj Aggarwal, Prakash Jha, Rahul Bhatt Drama/comedy Prakash Jha Productions, Play Entertainments 11 Global Baba Manoj Sidheshwari Tewari Abhimanyu Singh, Sandeepa Dhar, Ravi Kishan, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Mishra, Akhilendra Mishra Satire Teraa Surroor Shawn Arranha Himesh Reshammiya, Farah Karimi, Monica Dogra, Naseeruddin Shah, Shekhar Kapur Action/thriller/romance T-Series Films, HR Musik OK Mein Dhokhe Utpal S. Chaudhary Zoya Rathore, Sapan Krishna, Vaidhei Singh, Megha Verma, Ravi Thakur, Milan Singh Drama/thriller Lotus Media & Films Darling Don't CheatRajkumar HindusthaniGaurav Pandey, Ashish Tyagi, Neha ChaterjiDrama/thriller 18 Kapoor & Sons Shakun Batra Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Fawad Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Sukant Goel Drama/comedyFox Star Studios, Dharma Productions 25 Rocky HandsomeNishikant Kamat John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Nathalia Kaur Action Reliance Entertainment, JA Entertainment, Azure Entertainment
April–June
OpeningTitleDirector Cast Genre Studio Ref.APR1 Ki & Ka R. Balki Kareena Kapoor Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan Romantic comedy Eros International, Hope Productions8 Love Games Vikram Bhatt Patralekha, Tara Alisha Berry, Gaurav Arora Thriller T-Series Films, Vishesh Films The Blueberry Hunt Anup Kurien Naseeruddin Shah, Vipin Sharma, Vinay Forrt Thriller Springboard Films, Divine Thought Productions, Visual Possibility, Brand Stand 10Kaafiron Ki Namaaz Ram Ramesh Sharma Alok Chaturvedi, Joydip Mukhopadhyay, Megh Pant, Priya Raina, Chandrahas Tiwari Drama 15 Fan Maneesh Sharma Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha de Sousa, Sayani Gupta, Shriya Pilgaonkar Action/drama/thriller Yash Raj Films 22 Nil Battey Sannata Ashwini Iyer Tiwari Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Suri Comedy/drama Eros International, Colour Yellow Productions, JAR Pictures, Opticus INC Laal Rang Syed Ahmad Afzal Randeep Hooda, Akshay Oberoi, Rajneesh Duggal, Piaa Bajpai Action Krian Pictures Santa Banta Pvt Ltd Akashdeep Sabir Vir Das, Boman Irani, Ram Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Lisa Haydon Comedy Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Cinetek Telefilms 29 Baaghi Sabbir Khan Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Sudheer Babu, Sunil Grover Action UTV Motion Pictures, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Shortcut Safari Amitabha Singh Jimmy Shergill, Aashi Rawal, Sharvil Patel, Mann Patel, Ugam Khetani, Stuti Dwivedi, Deah Tandon, Hardil Kanaba Adventure, drama Xebec Films MAY6 One Night Stand Jasmine Moses D'Souza Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Nyra BanerjeeThriller Swiss Entertainment Traffic Rajesh Pillai Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Sheirgill, Divya Dutta, Kitu Gidwani, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar, Nikita Thukral, Vishal Singh, Jishnu Raghavan, Parambrata Chatterjee Thriller Fox Star Studios, Endemol Shine India 1920: London Tinu Suresh Desai Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal Horror Reliance Entertainment Murari the Mad Gentleman Comedy 13 Azhar Tony D'Souza Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri, Prachi Desai, Gautam Gulati, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Lara Dutta, Karanvir Sharma Biopic Balaji Motion Pictures, Sony Pictures Networks Buddha in a Traffic Jam Vivek Agnihotri Arunoday Singh, Mahie Gill, Anchal Dwivedi, Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher Political drama Khel Toh Ab Shuru Hoga Kunal V Singh Ruslaan Mumtaz, Devshi Khanduri Comedy GMD Films 16Dear Dad Tanuj Bhramar Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna Drama Peppermint Studios 20 Sarbjit Omung Kumar Aishwarya Rai, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadha Biopic T-Series Films, Legend Studios 27Phobia Pawan Kripalani Radhika Apte, Satyadeep Misra Thriller/horrorEros International, Next Gen Films Veerappan Ram Gopal Varma Sandeep Bharadwaj, Lisa Ray, Sachiin Joshi, Usha Jadhav Action/biopic Viking Media & Entertainment Fredrick Rajesh Butalia Prashant Narayanan, Avinash Dhyani Action JUN3 Housefull 3 Sajid-Farhad Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Lisa Haydon, Nargis Fakhri, Nikitin Dheer, Jackie Shroff Comedy Eros International, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Project MarathwadaPrakash Patel, Bhavin WadiaOm Puri, Dalip Tahil, Seema BiswasDrama 10Do Lafzon Ki Kahani Deepak Tijori Randeep Hooda, Kajal Aggarwal Romantic Dhiraj Motion Pictures, Focus Motion Pictures, Deepak Tijori Films, Pen Studios Dhanak Nagesh Kukunoor Hetal Gadda, Krrish Chabbria, Vipin Sharma, Vibha Chibber, Vijay Maurya Drama Drishyam Films, Kukunoor Movies Te3n Ribhu Dasgupta Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Thriller Endemol Shine India, Reliance Entertainment, Blue Waters Motion Pictures, Cinemaa, Kross Pictures 17 Udta Punjab Abhishek Chaubey Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Dosanjh Crime/drama Reliance Entertainment, Balaji Motion Pictures, Phantom Films 24 Raman Raghav 2.0 Anurag Kashyap Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala Crime/thriller Reliance Entertainment, Phantom Films Junooniyat Vivek Agnihotri Pulkit Samrat, Yami Gautam, Gulshan Devaiah, Hrishita Bhatt Romance T-Series Films 7 Hours To Go Saurabh Varma Shiv Panditt, Sandeepa Dhar, Natasa Stankovic, Varun Badola Crime/thriller Krian Pictures, Saurabh Varma Pictures A Scandall Ishaan Shrivedi Reeth Mazumder, Manav Kaul, Tanvi Vyas Adult Rough Book Ananth Narayan MahadevanAmaan Khan, Tannishtha ChatterjeeDrama Aerika Cineworks
July–September