India Synopsis
बिल्लू
When a famous Bollywood actor visits a small village for a film's shoot, a lowly hairdressers claim that they were once childhood friends soon makes him the centre of attention.
Audience Engagement
86 audience reviews — more than 90% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 86th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Billu. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Red Chillies Entertainment
Comedy + Drama in India
292 India titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Billu itself).
The 2008–2010 India Window
Billu holds position #65 of 181 India films in the 2008–2010 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s India Landscape
2009 was the decade’s peak output year for India — 59 titles released, including Billu. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (454 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 17m runtime, production spent $42K per minute on screen and earned $73K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 58 other India films in 2009.
The 694th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Billu, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- school friend · 5
- superstar · 4
- barber · 3
- barbershop · 2
- reunited friends · 1
- friendship · 134
- remake · 101
- india · 84
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,019 of 1,983 India films indexed here (49th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among India Comedy productions specifically: #286 of 648 (top 44%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Spoken Languages | English, Hindi |
| Production Companies | Red Chillies Entertainment, Eros International |
| Runtime | 2h 17m |
| Release Date | February 13, 2009 |
| IMDb | tt1230448 |