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Who gets how much when you buy a movie ticket in India?

Today’s Economic Times carried an article about the big hits in Bollywood, the ones that cross a minimum of Rs 100 crore ($188 m). These days, crossing Rs 100 crore collection within 2 weeks has become a habit for a few Bollywood stars. This article had one interesting piece: who gets how much from the movie ticket you buy.

These days, many stars take a smaller fee (which is a very big amount for us commoners) and take a percentage of the collections.

Ticket Price	Rs 100
Entertainment Tax @ 35%	Rs 35
Net Box office collection	Rs 65
Exhibitors share 50%	Rs 32.5
Net collection to distributors	Rs 32.5
Distribution expenses @ 5-20%	Rs 3.25
Net collection to producer	Rs 29.25
Share (%) of producer	29

A colleague commented that it is so difficult to make that kind of money in the internet space (at least for most of them). My take: Bollywood movies seem to have hit a tipping point; collecting Rs 100 crore has become an easy game for them.

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.