massive hit contrary to everyone's expectations. It earned an excess of net in India. Its total domestic gross was , and its overseas gross was $150,000, bringing its worldwide gross to . It was the year's 17th highest-grossing Indian film. The lack of publicity and tough competition from other films of that year were reasons for its average business. Santoshi also attributes the failure to the fact that the film was not released and distributed well due to a new distributor. All of these films were very strong in their box office presence and Andaz Apna Apna, belonging to a different genre, could not compete well. It has however, in subsequent years, achieved a cult classic status among Hindi audiences. Critical reception While reviewing Grand Masti in 2013, critic Khalid Mohamed described Andaz Apna Apna in the "collection of excellent comedies" from Hindi cinema. Film critic Raja Sen called it a "cornball classic" and "one of the greatest comedies in recent times." In 2014, comedian Aditi Mittal wrote: "Writing about Andaz Apna Apna, I have realized, is like writing about mother's love. Everyone has their own version of how it affects them, what lines they remember the most." The film was featured in Filmfare'''s 100 Days series. It is available on the streaming platform Netflix and Prime Video. Legacy Several dialogues from this film like "Teja main hu. Mark Idhar hai", "Crime Master Gogo, Mogambo ka Bhatija", "Do dost ek cup me chay piyenge" etc., are popular. It went on to be an inspiration for the plot element of the Tamil film Ullathai Allitha, the Telugu film Veedevadandi Babu and the Kannada film Galate Aliyandru. Andaz Apna Apna didn't have a bound script most of the dialogues were improvised by the cast and crew during the shoot of the film. The film was featured in Filmfare's 100 Days series. It was voted as the 2nd best Bollywood comedy film of all time in an online poll conducted by The Indian Express. The plot elements of the film were used in many languages as Ullathai Allitha (1996), Veedevadandi Babu (1997) and Galate Aliyandru (2000). Andaz Naya Naya is a Bollywood animated 3D film, which is an official remake of Andaz Apna Apna'', but it has been shelved due to unknown reasons. Producer Sidharth Jain began to question if the film would do any good at the box office because Indian animated