'Andaz Apna Apna' earned just Rs 5 cr in India

Andaz Apna Apna

' is set to re-reelase in theatres on April 25. While the movie is now a cult, did you know that when it originally released in 1994, the film had not done that well at the box office. Of course, now it's such a popular film and one of the most loved movies of Hindi cinema, that nobody knows how much it had earned at the

box office

originally.
The film had a lifetime collection of Rs 5.15 crore net in India, according to Sacnilk. Meanwhile, the worldwide gross collection of the film was Rs 7.59 crore. Of course, this number was 30 years ago, so now this box office number might be considered a lot more. The film was perceived to be a failure at the box office. However, here's what director Rajkumar Santoshi had recently clarified about the film.
The director had said in an interview with Doordarshan, "They just say that it flopped after release. People were just not aware about it. The publicity wasn’t done in a proper way and people were not aware that this was a comedy. People thought this would be a love story like Qayamat Se Qayamt Tak or Dil or Maine Pyar Kiya. The distributors were new so they didn’t release it properly. At the time of the release, Aamir, Salman and me, the three of us were not in the city so there was no premiere or anything. So maybe because of that, the film didn’t get a strong response upon release. People who watched it, they were loving it.”
Santoshi had further added, "I wouldn’t use harsh words like it was a flop, it wasn’t a flop. It didn’t get the kind of response what we expected. Later, people started liking it. It grew with word of mouth and as it was growing with publicity, it was taken off the theatres because the distributors didn’t have faith in it. They thought it won’t work."