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There is no formula to make a super-hit Hindi movie.
So you follow one of the trends; copy some ideas from Hollywood super-hits.
You decide to pick an existing franchise and mix it with ideas from Hollywood, put some bigger stars in it.

Then there is a limitation from production house that you cannot disclose the scenes while they are being shot, you cannot disclose even an ounce of the story. So you pick the location which is outside India (US is the best for obvious reasons) and ensure that foreign viewers also gather when movie hits theaters, resulting an impressive increase in the Box Office collections considering dollar-rupee ratio.

Now you have a look at a story. Then you realize the franchise you picked is a cop-thief drama. So you are in a trouble, you can't make your cop win because you promise that yours movie is a different one. So you have to give justice to both characters, the cop and the thief.  So you pick another trend, paint your bad guy with shades of grey.

By this time, you know you have reached the target of 150 crores with the help of Hollywood ideas, existing franchise and the top actor in the country as a grey guy. But you have signed a music director also, who has some really(!) good(!!) music which you cannot let waste. Uh oh again, this guy has composed some love songs, so let's bring a top actress in the movie. But she speaks Hindi with a little accent... even better... because our movie takes place in foreign  country, remember? She looks great, she dances very well and lesser the dialogues she get, happier she is. Perfect casting and a bang on a win-win situation!

So you start shooting with bad guy doing robberies and enjoying the money, but you have to show the cops chasing him and the problem is you have to keep the bad guy alive and jumping till the end as he is the one who gathers crowd. So, you give guns to the cops, but don't allow them to shoot. What the hell, nobody noticed it in earlier movies, who will bother now, they are busy cheering their hero, I mean villain, I mean grey guy, I mean good guy within bad guy, I mean .. whatever!

You shoot the scenes having some eye widening action sequences, some scenes with jokes,  some with melodrama where you show the reasons for bad guy's actions,  some scenes where you show the intelligence and bravery of the good cop, some songs beautifully choreographed to justify that our actors can dance too and why not? They dance very well. Are we missing something? Oh that sidekick, give some dialogues to him too!

While justifying everybody and everything, you suddenly realize that you are running out of ideas where thief escapes smartly from cops and running out of time also as you are reaching almost 3 hours. Hurry up, let the hero drive bikes without helmets and cops again hold their guns with mouth open. In next movie(oh yeah, we are planning that too), we will make cops clap with their guns, so audience won't be the alone cheerers!

You come to the climax and face the real problem! Who wins? The cop can't win as that is the rule of this franchise. You cannot make the bad guy win as audience may not like it (and the actor playing cop, he won't like it for sure, he is hero too, right?). We need to find the solution on this problem!

Come on, rub your creative heads and look at the earlier movie in the  same franchise. It has a solution. Make a bad guy kill himself in the end so that everybody will be happy. The bad guy will think that he was never caught by police, and he punished himself for his wrong-doings. The good guy will feel that HE caught the bad guy in a situation where the bad guy had no way other than suicide. The viewers will think... come on they are not thinking, we agreed on that, they are enjoying the view! The truth being, story-teller had no way left other than suicide, I mean to let the bad guy make suicide.

The audience are speechless when they leave the theater. The movie is a superhit even before you start making it.
Entertainment, Entertainment and Entertainment. Remember?
And I was saying there is no formula to make a superhit Hindi movie. I will rephrase, there is no single formula to make a superhit Hindi movie there are many formulas! You just have to combine them smartly!