Bollywood's 2025 Box Office Shock: Big Films Crash Despite Star Power

• 2025 saw numerous high-budget Bollywood films with star-studded casts and massive hype fail spectacularly at the box office.
• Sonu Sood's 'Fateh' (Rs 30 cr budget, Rs 17 cr earnings) and Kangana Ranaut's 'Emergency' (Rs 60 cr budget, Rs 17 cr domestic) were early disappointments.
• Ajay Devgn's 'Azaad' (Rs 80 cr budget, < Rs 10 cr earnings) became one of the year's biggest flops, despite launching star kids.
• Shahid Kapoor's 'Deva', Khushi Kapoor & Junaid Khan's 'Loveyapa', and Arjun Kapoor's 'Mere Husband Ki Biwi' also significantly underperformed.
• Rajkummar Rao's 'Maalik', Ajay Devgn's 'Son of Sardaar 2', and 'Dhadak 2' added to the list of major commercial failures.

Why It Matters: Star power and big budgets couldn't save many Bollywood films from bombing in 2025.