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In the last few years films like Dangal Secret Superstar and Andhadhun have earned crores in China. Similarly RRR and Pushpa 2 have also performed well in Japan and other Asian countries. But the performance of all these blockbusters fades when it comes to a small crime thriller film. This is a film that was made about 54 years ago. But even today it is counted among the great movies of Hindi cinema. The name of this movie is Karwaan. It is a tremendous crime thriller movie. Jeetendra and Asha Parekh were in the lead roles in this film. Directed by Nasir Hussain this film is one of the superhit films in India. It became the sixth highest-grossing film of 1971 with earnings of Rs 3.6 crore. The film was released in China about eight years after its release in India. The interesting thing is that even then the film did a tremendous feat. 8.8 crore tickets of the film were sold in China. In that era no foreign film could get such a response in China. Therefore it was considered a record. The total footfall of the film in China reached thirty crores. Not only this the film broke the record of Sholay in the country itself and Awara in the Soviet Union. Today when people talk about the global success of Dangal RRR or Pushpa 2 Caravans name is often missed. Dangal earned $238 million in China and sold 4.31 crore tickets. This record is equal to one-seventh of Caravans earnings and ticket sales. RRR earned around $20 million in the US and Japan combined. But the total footfall was only 30 lakhs. Pushpa 2 which is considered to be the biggest Indian film of recent years sold 6 crore tickets in India and around 1 crore tickets overseas. But even these numbers are nothing in front of the Caravan.