"Happy New Year" was released on October 24, 2014, during Diwali with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu and it was the biggest film release in India up until then. The film received mixed reviews and became a blockbuster grossing in India on its first day, setting the record for the highest first-day collection made by an Indian film to that point, and over worldwide, and it became the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2014 and among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time.