The Front Row with Anupama Chopra     Film directors Rajkumar
Hirani, Rohit Shetty, Anurag Basu, Kabir Khan and actress Vidya
Balan on the sets of ‘The Front Row with Anupama Chopra.’
How important are revenues as a measure of success for films?
This is the question Anupama Chopra asked film directors
Rajkumar Hirani, Rohit Shetty, Anurag Basu and Kabir Khan and to
actress Vidya Balan.      In Bollywood, the bar is set at 100
crore rupees (1 billion rupees, or $18.2 million). Films that
top that figure at the box office are considered as belonging to
the so-called “100 Crore Club.”      Below is an edited excerpt
of their conversation for “The Front Row.”       Anupama Chopra:
When I first started reporting around 18 or 19 years ago,
conversations about box office and opening day figures were
restricted to the trade in Naaz building, Mumbai’s historical
film distribution center. Those men would discuss initial,
deficit and overflow. Today, box office figures are the stuff of
kitty party chatter and are c