Now, it is the third-highest grossing Indian film worldwide with a total gross of Rs 894 cr, including the Rs 134 cr the movie earned before its China release, only next to Dangal and Baahubali: The Conclusion. Galloping its way to the Rs 750 cr mark at the mainland box-office, Secret Superstar was on a record-busting spree ever since its release. While Dangal holds the record for the highest-grossing non-Hollywood film in China, Secret Superstar, with its massive $118 million lifetime gross, has dethroned Japanese animation blockbuster Your Name to become the second highest-earning non-Hollywood import film in the PRC. Last month, Khan joined Toutiao, a Chinese news and information platform, ahead of the release of Secret Superstar in an effort to expand his digital presence and reach out to his fans in the PRC. He joined Sina Weibo, China’s most popular micro-blogging platform like Twitter, before the release of Dangal and amassed nearly 6 lakh followers in a jiffy, outpacing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to become the most followed Indian celebrity. Khan was ranked the most popular foreign star in the country in 2017 on Douban. In 2017, Dangal catapulted him to unconquerable heights at the Chinese box-office by becoming the highest-rated film on China’s influential social networking and movie-reviewing platform Douban. There was no looking back for the 52-year-old Indian actor after PK's unprecedented success.
The film resonated with Chinese audiences like 3 Idiots and set a benchmark by becoming the first Indian movie to enter the Rs 100 cr club in the Middle Kingdom box-office.
Poor marketing was pointed out by Chinese media as one of the reasons for the film’s failure.Īamir Khan, one of the astute Indian stars who quickly learn from his mistakes and also a marketing genius himself, promoted his next release PK extensively in China along with director Rajkumar Hirani and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Later, Dhoom 3, the second film of Aamir Khan to score a China release in 2014, competed with a handful of homegrown movies and earned just $3.1 million despite getting the widest release ever for an Indian movie in the PRC then. In fact, the movie was a cult hit among college-going youngsters in the Middle Kingdom before its China release, courtesy of piracy sites, and led the state-run China Film Group to officially release it in mainland theaters. Now, the actor indisputably occupies the Top Five Highest-Grossing Indian Films list in the PRC with Dangal, Secret Superstar, PK ($19 million), Dhoom 3 ($3.1 million) and 3 Idiots ($2.2 million), a film which then sowed the seeds for Khan’s now-unrivaled stardom in the world’s second-largest movie market.ģ Idiots saw the light of the day in China two years after its Indian theatrical release and still managed to gross $2.2 million (Rs 14 cr) in its month-long run despite the rampant piracy market in 2011. The Nitesh Tiwari-directed wrestling drama Dangal, Khan's most-loved film in the Middle Kingdom, which grossed a humongous $205 million (Rs 1320 cr), contributes a lion's share of Khan's cumulative China box-office collection with its unbeaten figures at the ticket window.
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