Kick is a 2014 action film produced and directed by Sajid Nadiadwala under his Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment banner. It is an official remake of a Telugu movie Kick which was released in 2009. The film features Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Randeep Hooda in the lead roles and Nawazuddin Siddiqui , portraying the main antagonist of the film. The screenplay was adapted by Nadiadwala and Chetan Bhagat.

Nadiadwala and his team visited South Korea in September 2011 at the invitation from the Korea Tourism Organization, and he signed an agreement to shoot portions of this project and others in that country.The shooting of the film began on 27 July 2013 in Scotland,where Khan shot a car crash scene and helicopter crash scene in Glasgow. Shooting was also done in Delhi. Some scenes were shot at Mehboob Studios in February 2014 and at the Film City studio in Mumbai.

In October 2013, while the shooting was in progress outside the city of Mumbai, the Film Studio Settings & Allied Mazdoor Union asked Sajid to pay them wages for one and a half shifts, which he refused. The workers stopped shooting for a week and only resumed when Sajid agreed to the worker’s demands. The shooting of the movie Roy had to be postponed due to Fernandez’s commitments to this movie. Fernandez started learning the Urdu language specifically for the film with a coach who was hired by Khan.

While shooting was underway in Mumbai in March 2014, Khan’s body double, Ajay, was injured while shooting a stunt scene. He was supposed to jump from the first floor of a house onto a railway track, but went through the sugar glass, injuring his face. He required hospitalization

The film released on 25 July 2014 in about 5,000 screens worldwide. Kick was one of the highest grossing Hindi films at the time, with a final worldwide gross collection of ₹377 crore.

Plans for the film began way back in 2005 but the project was shelved in lieu of Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om which also featured Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. After her 2010 film Tees Maar Khan, Farah began to consider the possibilities of the film and screenwriting was completed by October 2012. The filmmaker stated that she wanted an established actress in the lead role opposite Khan. Sonakshi Sinha, Asin, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Parineeti Chopra andKatrina Kaif were rumoured to play the role, however Deepika Padukone was finalized, making it her third film with Shah Rukh Khan after Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express . Khan was reported to be playing the role of a con artist in the film which had Deepika in the role of a Marathi dancer. At a point, John Abraham was to play one of the supporting roles but Sonu Sood replaced him. Boman Irani was confirmed by the director during an interview. In August 2013, Jackie Shroff was finalised to play the film’s antagonist.The director’s brother Sajid Khan would be making a guest appearance while actress Malaika Arora.

Khan was reported to be playing the role of a con artist in the film which had Deepika in the role of a Marathi dancer. At a point, John Abraham was to play one of the supporting roles but Sonu Sood replaced him. Boman Irani was confirmed by the director during an interview. In August 2013,Jackie Shroff was finalised to play the film’s antagonist.The director’s brother Sajid Khan would be making a guest appearance while actress Malaika Arora Khan was also signed to appear in a cameo role. Vivaan Shah was reported to play the role of a computer hacker. Actor-director Prabhu Deva performed a dance in a cameo appearance for the film.

The film received negative reviews from critics, but was a commercial success and ranks among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time, with a worldwide gross collection of ₹385 crore.

Principal photography began on 20 March 2015 with Dhawan in Goa. Khan and Kajol first joined the crew for filming in Bulgaria from June 2015. Later that month, the first song from the film was shot on Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, in Bulgaria. The schedule there was wrapped up by late July. In August 2015, a romantic song featuring the lead pair was shot in Iceland.

The entire team then left for Hyderabad in early September to shoot what was touted to be the final schedule of filming. However, the work in Hyderabad was completed by late October, and filming officially came to an end with a brief schedule in Goa, the same location where it was started. In December, after the promotions had commenced, another song was shot in haste. It featured all four lead actors and had to be played simultaneously with the end-credits

Dilwale grossed over ₹394 crore  at the box-office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.

The film is distinctive for featuring real inventions by little-known people in India’s backyards. The brains behind the innovations were Remya Jose, a student from Kerala, who created the exercise-bicycle/washing-machine; Mohammad Idris, a barber from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, who invented a bicycle-powered horse clipper; and Jahangir Painter, a painter from Maharashtra, who made the scooter-powered flour mill.This film was remade in Tamil as Nanban which also received critical praise and commercial success. It has also been announced that there will be a Chinese remake of the film produced by Stephen Chow and that there are plans for a Hollywoodremake produced in the United States. A Telugu remake was planned despite Nanban having a Telugu dubbed version titled Snehitudu.

The film’s worldwide lifetime gross was ₹339 crore. It was the highest grossing movie at that time. The film won 39 accolades; among these are five Filmfare Awards including best film and best director, ten Star Screen Awards, sixteen IIFA awards and threeNational Film Awards. In January 2014, it was nominated in the Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film category for 37th Japanese Academy Awards.

In January 2016, director Rajkumar Hirani and actor Aamir Khan confirmed that they were considering a 3 Idiots sequel. Khan told reporters, ““Raju Hirani has given me a hint about ‘3 Idiots’ sequel and I am giving you all a hint. The film will happen if and whenever he will write the script.” Hirani agreed, saying ” this is one film that I really want to do.”

Filming on the project began at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai on 5 October 2012.additional filming was done atChhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station with a minimal crew. Stills of the lead actor were unofficially released in mid-October 2012.In November 2012, the cast and crew went to Goa to begin filming the scenes set there. The railway station at Vasco da Gama was used to portray Kalyan. A romantic scene on board a train passing next to Dudhsagar Falls was also shot.In December 2012, the crew went to Jakarta to film certain scenes.

Although the film received mixed reviews from critics, it broke several box office records in India and abroad, becoming the quickest film to collect ₹1 billion net domestically.The film surpassed 3 Idiots to become the highest-grossing Bollywood film worldwide; a record it held until it was surpassed by Dhoom 3 in December, 2013.

The film broke many records on its opening days in India and abroad. Box Office India declared Dhoom 3 “the biggest hit of 2013” after two days of release,the film went on to gross ₹400 Crore worldwide in just ten days, to become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in international markets.

The initial international gross of Dhoom 3 was US$28 million—eventually breaking the record of 3 Idiots and making it the third highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in international markets as well as the fourth highest-grossing Indian film of all time. It was the 77th highest grossing film of 2013 worldwide. The film was screened during the 2014 International Film Festival of India in the Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema section.

On 6 January 2014, Yash Raj Films issued a statement that Dhoom 3 is officially the first Indian film to earn ₹500 Crore worldwide. The film’s final worldwide gross was ₹542 crore.

Made on a budget of ₹90 crore, the principal photography commenced in November 2014. The cinematography was done by Aseem Mishra and was edited by Rameshwar S. Bhagat. The soundtrack was composed by Pritam, who collaborated with Julius Packiam to score the background music.

In October 2015, the film was broadcast on Star Gold and became the most watched Bollywood movie in the history of television. It had 15.5 TRP in its world television premier, beating the previous record held by the film 3 Idiots. The film was nominated for Best Film and Best Actor in the 61st Britainia Filmfare Awards, as well as other categories, and bagged the Filmfare Award for Best Story. The film has garnered the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 63rd National Film Awards.

The film was released worldwide on 17 July 2015 and grossed approximately ₹626 crore worldwide and became the second highest grossing Indian film at the time, behind PK.

The film was earlier scheduled to release on June 6, 2014.The director who is also the editor of the film, Rajkumar Hirani, wanted to spend more time on the editing. Besides, some portions with Sanjay Dutt were yet to be shot. Also, the second season of Satyamev Jayate was to kick off from March. So Aamir was not sure if he would be able to promote PK in June. Hence the makers of his film settled for a December release.

The film was released on 19 December 2014, as the 200th Bollywood release in 2014. PK was initially released in 4844 screens worldwide. The film’s release was later expanded to 6000 screens worldwide, which included 5200 screens in India and 844 screens overseas. PK has been made tax-free in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. PK is the widest Indian movie released in the U.K. (198 screens), Pakistan (over 70 screens), Australia (35 screens) and outside of India (844 screens in over 40 overseas markets). PK was released theatrically in China on 22 May 2015 across 4,600 screens.

The film received positive reviews and emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time, and ranked as the 70th highest-grossing film of 2014 worldwide. PK was the first Indian film to gross ₹700 crore worldwide.