Hombale Films Took a Devotional Film Abroad. It Grossed More Than $3.5 Million.
The Indian devotional film “Hanuman Ansh” has grossed more than $3.5 million outside its home territory since Hombale Films took it to international audiences, Variety reports. Hombale is the company behind the K.G.F and Kantara franchises, and Variety says it has now detailed how it engineered the run. The film was written and directed by Vishal Chaturvedi and adapted from his book. The number worth holding onto is the geography of it: more than $3.5 million earned outside the film's home market, by a distributor whose track record rests on franchise blockbusters.
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A devotional film clearing $3.5 million abroad is a useful counterexample to the assumption that the overseas Indian audience only turns out for action spectacles.
One film is one film. Hombale's distribution machinery may account for more of that $3.5 million than the subject matter does.