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#6,152 All-time worldwide
#188 2009 releases

Movie profile

Chandni Chowk to China

2009 · 154 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Action Adventure Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $17.0M
Budget $12.0M
Gross minus budget $5.0M
ROI 1.42x

Domestic gross

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Chandni Chowk to China ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,152 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #188 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #158 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,816 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Chandni Chowk to China (2009) perform at the box office?

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Chandni Chowk to China (2009) earned a reported $17.0M worldwide against a reported $12.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.42x. In this database it currently ranks #6,152 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #188 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$17,000,000
Budget
$12,000,000
Gross minus budget
$5,000,000
ROI
1.42x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A cook from Chandni Chowk gets mistaken for the reincarnation of an ancient peasant warrior by the residents of an oppressed Chinese village.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 15, 2009
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, People Tree Films, Ramesh Sippy Enterprises
Countries
CN, IN, TH

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Chandni Chowk to China is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Adventure, Comedy title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $17.0M, reported production budget is $12.0M, gross-minus-budget is $5.0M, ROI is 1.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,152 all-time in the current chart set and #188 among 2009 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.