What Makes A Movie A Super Hit? ...Starcast?... Story?... Budget?... Promos?

It is timing along with story, budget, promos, and starcast. :) Release the best of the movies at the time of children's exams, and you would notice the difference. Children would not be around for obvious reasons, and so will their parents, because they would be supervising children's studies.

Hi nishant, Today, it all depends on the Hype that you can create to get a good start. Then comes anything else. In Indian context, you MUST have great songs nothing else - Aashiqui was the best example of this from the last 20 years. Glitz matters - Movies like Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Lamhe - were the best movies for their year of release - but failed at the Box Office as there was not hi-quality costumes, no great star cast Budgets are not the things that matter - Failures of Devdas, Jeans, Roop Ki Raani Choro Ka Raaja... so many of them Promos - so very correct - Sooryavansham flopped because no one noticed its promos on the TV/media REPEAT VALUE - this missed your list - but this is 100% needed for any movie to be a success... I watched DDLJ 35 times at the theatre and just loved the whole move - each and every bit of it(it is a different factor that both SRK and Kajol are my favs)

first and foremost is the promotion. but of course it is the right combination of all and everything there is.. budget, starcast and the story. audience get attracted to watch it when it is well promoted. and when they get to know the story, they start to talk about it and hence everyone wants to see already. then it becomes a super hit movie. ann

I am not really a fan of movies but on what I observe, I feel that what makes a movie become hit on the story itself and how it was market. I am not sure though it if still works.

The story and the way it is naratted become blockbuster.Budget and big star cast are secondary. If you involve in the interesting narration you will be tempted to see the movie again.repeated audience make the movie blockbuster.

The miracle of a movie hit is not so hard to understand - a great story, good acting, a directoral concept that illuminates the themes of the story and enough money to make it all happen. Hollywood has taken to letting authors direct their own movies. They should know the story, but so often they let the emotional context behind the story blind them to the universal themes. The director who is not the author believes he must put his stamp on it so adds his own themes to the story. That can be deadly. Bad acting can damn the project. If the audience can't believe the characters they don't want to watch that long. No wonder we see so many special effects and action movies. Then of course you have the producers who put their own stamp on the project, change the story, themes, and casting. My take on this is then, Find a good script, a director who uses the themes in the script and does not try to "make it is own," then cast good people who know the craft of acting as well as the art, get a producer who won't mettle in the project and you will have a hit everytime. Get just one element in the above out of balance and the chance of a hit just dropped by 50%. With all the problem in getting a film project started, let alone completed it is a wonder a hit ever happens.

For me they study how to convince people so that the money would be gold in this project.

For me, a movie becomes a hit because of its plot or storyline. I don't care how expensive the movie's production is, if the storyline sucks I'm betting it won't be a hit.

Hi Nishant, I think budget and star cast both do not play any role in making the film hit. Similarly promos contributes very little to make it a hit. In our country, music and songs of film has very important role in making a film hit. When music is hit, the film gets hit. Music is released long time before the actual film, and when it is hit, the film gets hit. Did you remember Ram Lakhan. It's music was released before one year and the songs got hit and consequently the film got hit. There are many films we can count like this. Story also has great effect on film, rather it is a main reason for making a film hit. A film with good story is always liked by audience and has great chances of getting hit. Star cast is somewhat important as it draws the fans of that particular star into theater. For example films of Mithun Chakraverti. They are neither big budget films nor have great story, but they make enough money to make it a semi-hit and earn profit. Did you remember, Kaho Na Pyaar Hai -- It did not have any star cast at all. Promos do not have any significant role in our country; however, they do bring audience in cinema halls. One example is Sanwariya -- It flopped after all great promos and everything. So, I think, film should have a good story first of all and then other things comes, like, star cast and budget and promos.

The most important asset to hit a movie is audience only. All things are ok then only audience welcome that movie.So the hit of the movie is decided by the audience only.Let it be any star or story or director.

I think whether a movie is a super hit for their starcast, story or others depends on what kind of movies they are defined. For example, if it is a action movie. I think the starcast and the action part is the most important. Most people like Chinese Kongfu and Boxing, and if there are superstars like Schwarzenegger and Stallone in the movie, it is more likely that movie will be a success one. However, if the movie is defined as a love story, the action part and stars may not be very important because the love story is the main core of the whole movie. People come for and only for the tearful story. Moreover, whether a scientific movie will success is probably rely on the special effects. So, what makes a movie super hit, it depends.