66 Hindi films of 2016 ranked by box office. #1: Dangal (₹1,968 crore).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dangal | Nitesh Tiwari | ₹70 crore | ₹1,968 crore | 28.11x | |
| 2 | Sultan | Ali Abbas Zafar | ₹90 crore | ₹623.3 crore | 6.93x | |
| 3 | Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | Karan Johar | ₹50 crore | ₹239.7 crore | 4.79x | |
| 4 | Airlift | Raja Krishna Menon | ₹30 crore | ₹221.7 crore | 7.39x | |
| 5 | Rustom | Tinu Suresh Desai | ₹50.3 crore | ₹218.1 crore | 4.34x | |
| 6 | M.S.Dhoni : The Untold Story | Neeraj Pandey | $1 billion | ₹216 crore | ||
| 7 | Housefull 3 | Farhad Samji | ₹195 crore | |||
| 8 | FAN | Maneesh Sharma | ₹105 crore | ₹182.3 crore | 1.74x | |
| 9 | Shivaay | Ajay Devgn | ₹100 crore | ₹170.9 crore | 1.71x | |
| 10 | Pink | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | ₹30 crore | ₹157.3 crore | 5.24x | |
| 11 | Kapoor & Sons | Shakun Batra | ₹28 crore | ₹148 crore | 5.29x | |
| 12 | Dear Zindagi | Gauri Shinde | ₹22 crore | ₹138.9 crore | 6.31x | |
| 13 | Neerja | Ram Madhvani | ₹20 crore | ₹135.5 crore | 6.78x | |
| 14 | Baaghi: A Rebel For Love | Sabbir Khan | ₹35 crore | ₹129 crore | 3.69x | |
| 15 | Dishoom | Rohit Dhawan | ₹55 crore | ₹119.6 crore | 2.17x | |
| 16 | Mohenjo Daro | Ashutosh Gowariker | ₹100 crore | ₹107.8 crore | 1.08x | |
| 17 | Befikre | Aditya Chopra | ₹70 crore | ₹103 crore | 1.47x | |
| 18 | Ki and Ka | R. Balki | ₹100.3 crore | |||
| 19 | Udta Punjab | Abhishek Chaubey | ₹34 crore | ₹96.1 crore | 2.83x | |
| 20 | Jagga Jasoos | Anurag Basu | ₹131 crore | ₹86.8 crore | 0.66x | |
| 21 | Wazir | Bejoy Nambiar | ₹35 crore | ₹78.7 crore | 2.25x | |
| 22 | Baar Baar Dekho | Nitya Mehra | ₹62.7 crore | |||
| 23 | Force 2 | Abhinay Deo | ₹41 crore | ₹58.8 crore | 1.43x | |
| 24 | A Flying Jatt | Remo D'Souza | ₹56.1 crore | |||
| 25 | Kahaani 2 | Sujoy Ghosh | ₹17 crore | ₹54.7 crore | 3.22x | |
| 26 | Azhar | Anthony D'Souza | ₹35 crore | ₹52.9 crore | 1.51x | |
| 27 | Jai Gangaajal | Prakash Jha | ₹33 crore | ₹49.6 crore | 1.50x | |
| 28 | Happy Bhaag Jayegi | Muddassar Aziz | ₹20 crore | ₹46.5 crore | 2.33x | |
| 29 | Sarbjit | Omung Kumar | ₹15 crore | ₹43.8 crore | 2.92x | |
| 30 | Fitoor | Abhishek Kapoor | ₹35 crore | ₹42.4 crore | 1.21x | |
| 31 | Raaz 4 | Vikram Bhatt | ₹31 crore | ₹42.1 crore | 1.36x | |
| 32 | Mastizaade | Milap Zaveri | ₹30 crore | ₹36.4 crore | 1.21x | |
| 33 | Rocky Handsome | Nishikant Kamat | ₹20 crore | ₹35 crore | 1.75x | |
| 34 | Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 | Umesh Ghadge | ₹26 crore | ₹33.1 crore | 1.27x | |
| 35 | Te3n | Ribhu Dasgupta | ₹34 crore | ₹32.3 crore | 0.95x | |
| 36 | Madaari | Nishikant Kamat | ₹28.7 crore | |||
| 37 | Lipstick Under My Burkha | Alankrita Shrivastava | ₹6 crore | ₹26.7 crore | 4.45x | |
| 38 | 1920 London | Vikram Bhatt | ₹21 crore | ₹22.7 crore | 1.08x | |
| 39 | Freaky Ali | Sohail Khan | ₹50 crore | ₹21.3 crore | 0.43x | |
| 40 | Teraa Surroor | Shawn Arranha | ₹20.2 crore | |||
| 41 | Great Grand Masti | Indra Kumar | ₹19 crore | ₹20 crore | 1.05x | |
| 42 | Sanam Teri Kasam | Radhika Rao | ₹14 crore | ₹16 crore | 1.15x | |
| 43 | Rock On!! 2 | Shujaat Saudagar | ₹45 crore | ₹15.7 crore | 0.35x | |
| 44 | Akira | A. R. Murugadoss | ₹3.6 crore | ₹15.1 crore | 4.18x | |
| 45 | Wajah Tum Ho | Vishal Pandya | ₹14 crore | ₹13.6 crore | 0.97x | |
| 46 | Mirzya | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | ₹45 crore | ₹13.5 crore | 0.30x | |
| 47 | Banjo | Ravi Jadhav | ₹13.2 crore | |||
| 48 | Traffic | Rajesh Pillai | ₹9 crore | ₹11.7 crore | 1.29x | |
| 49 | Raman Raghav 2.0 | Anurag Kashyap | ₹3.5 crore | ₹7 crore | 2.00x | |
| 50 | Nil Battey Sannata | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari | ₹6.9 crore | |||
| 51 | Tum Bin 2 | Anubhav Sinha | ₹12 crore | ₹6.5 crore | 0.54x | |
| 52 | Motu Patlu: King of Kings | Vinay Pathak | Suhas Kadav | ₹4.3 crore | ||
| 53 | Junooniyat | Vivek Agnihotri | ₹4.1 crore | |||
| 54 | Love Games | Vikram Bhatt | ₹10 crore | ₹4 crore | 0.40x | |
| 55 | Do Lafzon Ki Kahani | Deepak Tijori | ₹11 crore | ₹4 crore | 0.36x | |
| 56 | Trapped | Vikramaditya Motwane | ₹5 crore | ₹3.5 crore | 0.71x | |
| 57 | Phobia | Pawan Kripalani | ₹3.2 crore | |||
| 58 | Loveshhuda | Vaibhav Misra | ₹20 crore | ₹3 crore | 0.15x | |
| 59 | Love Day - Pyaar Ka Din | Sandeep Choudhary | ₹2.2 crore | ₹3 crore | 1.31x | |
| 60 | A Death In The Gunj | Konkona Sen Sharma | ₹1.4 crore | |||
| 61 | Direct Ishq | Rajiv S. Ruia | ₹22 crore | ₹56 lakh | 0.03x | |
| Little Door Gods | Gary Wang | $12 million | $11.9 million | 0.99x | ||
| Sanam Re | Divya Khossla | $3.1 million | $4.5 million | 1.46x | ||
| Salaam Mumbai | Ghorban Mohammadpour | $2 million | $3.9 million | 1.95x | ||
| Irudhi Suttru | Sudha Kongara Prasad | $300,000 | $2.1 million | 7.00x | ||
| Ek Tera Saath | Arshad Siddiqui | $94,950 |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.