#record setter

13 April 1962. U.S. Navy Lt. Cdr. Del W. Nordberg set a new rate-of-climb record when his McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II (148423) ascended from a standing start at Point Mugu to 98,425 feet in 371.43 seconds.

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-Hank Louis “Hammer” Aaron

February 5th, 1934 - January 22, 2021

April 11, 2019

MUMBAI—In 2016, Akshay Kumar completed a hat-trick of 100 crore-plus grossing movies with “Airlift,” “Housefull 3” and “Rustom.” Kumar thus became the first and so far only star to have got a hat-trick of such movies in (less than a) single calendar year.

The stars

Otherwise, within 12 months (which is a year, length-wise), Salman Khanhas achieved this feat twice, with “Dabangg,” “Ready” and “Bodyguard” between September 2010 and August 2011, and “Bajrangi Bhaijaan,” “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo” and “Sultan” between August 2015 and July 2016. Kumar has also now reprised his success, with “Gold,” “2.0” and “Kesari” released between August 2018 and March 2019.

Salman Khan now holds the record for not just the maximum 100 crore-grossing films but also the highest consecutive score of hits among any actor in Hindi cinema. His last 13 films in the lead have all fallen into this category, though “Tubelight” was a flop among them, and so he has 11 hits in a row. Three of these films, “Bajrangi…,” “Sultan” and “Tiger Zinda Hai,” rank among the seven highest-grossing Hindi films of all time globally (along with Aamir Khan’s “PK” and “Dangal,” Ranveer Singh’s “Padmaavat” and Ranbir Kapoor’s “Sanju” – a near 50 percent score) and he is the only star who has more than one film as yet in that super-elite club. We look at “Bahubali2: The Conclusion” here as a fundamentally Telugu film.

And, it is a Salman Khan film that has topped annual business in 11 of the 20 years that have passed since his debut – 1989 (“Maine Pyar Kiya”), 1991 (“Saajan”), 1994 (“Hum Aapke Hain Koun!... ”), 1998 (“Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” in a special cameo), 1999 (“Biwi No.1”), 2005 (“No Entry”) and consecutively from 2010’s “Dabangg” through “Bodyguard” (2011) and then “Ek Tha Tiger” in 2012, “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” in 2015 and “Tiger Zinda Hai” in 2017.