Superstar Salman Khan is the numero uno king of Bollywood, with most of his films earning over INR 100 crore at the domestic box office. Except for Tubelight, all films from 2014, which had Salman Khan headlining the cast, have smoothly racked up at least INR 200 crore at the ticket window. Today, we will have a close look at the list of Salman Khan films in INR 200 crore club.
1 - Kick
When renowned producer Sajid Nadiadwala decided to turn director, he could not see beyond Salman Khan and the result was amazing. Kick, which released on 25th July, raked in INR 26 crore on day one and ended its first weekend with a whopping INR 83.50 crore. Also starring Jacqueline Fernandez, the movie managed to garner INR 164 crore in the first week. Continuing its brilliant run, Kick entered INR 200 crore club within 11 days, becoming Salman Khan’s first film to achieve the feat. The film wrapped up its box office run with a lifetime collection of INR 231.85 crore.
2 - Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Helmed by noted filmmaker Kabir Khan, Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the most successful film of Salman Khan's three-decade-long career. Also featuring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and child artist Harshali Malhotra in prominent roles, the film hit screens on 17th July 2015 and opened to a thunderous response. It earned INR 27 crore on its opening day. The film crossed INR 100 crore mark in India in its first weekend itself and joined the coveted INR 200 crore club on the 9th day of its release. By the end of its box office run, Bajrangi Bhaijaan had INR 320.34 crores in his pocket.
3 - Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
Released on 12th November 2015, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo reunited Salman Khan with veteran filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya after a huge gap of 17 years. The audience was immensely excited to see the two powerful forces come together again. The duo did not disappoint as Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, also starring Sonam Kapoor and Swara Bhaskar in prominent parts, went on to become a mega-hit at the ticket window. The film opened its account with the first-day income of INR 40.35 crore. On its second and third day, the movie minted INR 31.05 and INR 30.07 respectively. By the end of its first weekend, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo made INR 101.47 crore, entering the prestigious club of INR 100 crore within three days. However, after a thunderous start, the movie slowed down drastically and took 14 days to crawl in in INR 200 crore club. The film ended its box office run at INR 208.88 crore.
4- Sultan
Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Sultan hit screens on 6th July 2016. As expected, the movie opened to an earth-shattering response, collecting INR 36.54 crore on day one. It continued its phenomenal run in coming days as well and finished its first weekend with an impressive income of INR 105. 53 crore. The film ended its first week by pocketing INR 229.16 crores, thus becoming the fourth INR 200 crore film of Salman Khan, after Kick, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. The movie joined the elite INR 200 crore club on the 7th day of its run. Sultan wrapped up its box office journey by entering the INR 300 crore club with INR 300.47 crore in its pocket.
5- Tiger Zinda Hai
Starring Salman Khan with his ex-flame Katrina Kaif, Tiger Zinda Hai arrived in cinemas on 22nd December 2017. A lot of expectations were riding on the film because it was a sequel to Salman and Katrina’s 2012 blockbuster Tiger Zinda Hai. Fulfilling all expectations, Tiger Zinda Hai registered an outstanding occupancy on its opening day and raked in INR 34.10 crore. It closed out its first weekend INR 114.93 crore. Like Sultan, Tiger Zinda Hai also marched past the INR 200 mark on the 7th day of its run. The film is still running successfully across cinemas and has already crossed INR 300 crore mark. Now, it is aiming to surpass the lifetime collection of Salman Khan’s biggest hit to date, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, which had earned INR 320.34 crore in 2015.
AI can make thousands of podcast episodes every week with very few people.
Making an AI podcast episode costs almost nothing and can make money fast.
Small podcasters cannot get noticed. It is hard for them to earn.
Advertisements go to AI shows. Human shows get ignored.
Listeners do not mind AI. Some like it.
A company can now publish thousands of podcasts a week with almost no people. That fact alone should wake up anyone who makes money from talking into a mic.
The company now turns out roughly 3,000 episodes a week with a team of eight. Each episode costs about £0.75 (₹88.64) to make. With as few as 20 listens, an episode can cover its cost. That single line explains why the rest of this story is happening.
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The math that changes the game
Podcasting used to be slow and hands-on. Hosts booked guests, edited interviews, and hunted sponsors. Now, the fixed costs, including writing, voice, and editing, can be automated. Once that system is running, adding another episode barely costs anything; it is just another file pushed through the same machine.
To see how that changes the landscape, look at the scale we are talking about. By September 2025, there were already well over 4.52 million podcasts worldwide. In just three months, close to half a million new shows joined the pile. It has become a crowded marketplace worth roughly £32 billion (₹3.74 trillion), most of it fuelled by advertising money.
That combination of a huge market plus near-zero marginal costs creates a simple incentive: flood the directories with niche shows. Even tiny audiences become profitable.
What mass production looks like
These AI shows are not replacements for every human program. They are different products. Producers use generative models to write scripts, synthesise voice tracks, add music, and publish automatically. Topics are hyper-niche: pollen counts in a mid-sized city, daily stock micro-summaries, or a five-minute briefing on a single plant species. The episodes are short, frequent, and tailored to narrow advertiser categories.
That model works because advertisers can target tiny audiences. If an antihistamine maker can reach fifty people looking up pollen data in one town, that can still be worth paying for. Multiply that by thousands of micro-topics, and the revenue math stacks up.
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Where human creators lose
Podcasting has always been fragile for independent creators. Most shows never break even. Discoverability is hard. Promotion costs money. Now, add AI fleets pushing volume, and the problem worsens.
Platforms surface content through algorithms. If those algorithms reward frequency, freshness, or sheer inventory, AI producers gain an advantage. Human shows that take weeks to produce with high-quality narrative, interviews, or even investigative pieces get buried.
Advertisers chasing cheap reach will be tempted by mass AI networks. That will push down the effective CPMs (cost per thousand listens) for many categories. Small hosts who relied on a few branded reads or listener donations will see the pool shrink.
What listeners get and what they lose
Not every listener cares if a host is synthetic. Some care only about the utility: a quick sports update, a commute briefing, or a how-to snippet. For those use cases, AI can be fine, or even better, because it is faster, cheaper, and always on.
But the thing is, a lot of podcast value comes from human quirks. The long-form interview, the offbeat joke, the voice that makes you feel known—those are hard to fake. Studies and industry voices already show 52% of consumers feel less engaged with content. The result is a split audience: one side tolerates or prefers automated, functional audio; the other side pays to keep human voices alive.
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Legal and ethical damage control
Mass AI podcasting raises immediate legal and ethical questions.
Copyright — Models trained on protected audio and text can reproduce or riff on copyrighted works.
Impersonation — Synthetic voices can mirror public figures, which risks deception.
Misinformation — Automated scripts without fact-checking can spread errors at scale.
Transparency — Few platforms force disclosure that an episode is AI-generated.
If regulators force tighter rules, the tiny profit margin on each episode could disappear. That would make the mass-production model unprofitable overnight. Alternatively, platforms could impose labelling and remove low-quality feeds. Either outcome would reshape the calculus.
How the industry can respond through practical moves
The ecosystem will not collapse overnight.
Label AI episodes clearly.
Use discovery algorithms that reward engagement, not volume.
Create paywalls, memberships, or time-listened metrics.
Use AI tools to help humans, not replace them.
Industry standards on IP and voice consent are needed to reduce legal exposure. Platforms and advertisers hold most of the cards here. They can choose to favour volume or to protect quality. Their choice will decide many creators’ fates.
Three short scenarios, then the point
Flooded and cheap — Platforms favour volume. Ads chase cheap reach. Many independent shows vanish, and audio becomes a sea of similar, useful, but forgettable feeds.
Regulated and curated — Disclosure rules and smarter discovery reward listener engagement. Human shows survive, and AI fills utility roles.
Hybrid balance — Creators use AI tools to speed up workflows while keeping control over voice and facts. New business models emerge that pay for depth.
All three are plausible. The industry will move towards the one that matches where platforms and advertisers put their money.
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New rules, old craft
Machines can mass-produce audio faster and cheaper than people. That does not make them better storytellers. It makes them efficient at delivering information. If you are a creator, your defence is simple: make content machines cannot copy easily. Tell stories that require curiosity, risk, restraint, and relationships. Build listeners who will pay for that difference.
If you are a platform or advertiser, your choice is also simple: do you reward noise or signal? Reward signal, and you keep what made podcasting special. Reward noise, and you get scale and a thinner, cheaper industry in return. Either way, the next few years will decide whether podcasting stays a human medium with tools or becomes a tool-driven medium with a few human highlights. The soundscape is changing. If human creators want to survive, they need to focus on the one thing machines do not buy: trust.
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