'A microcosm of India, inclusive and welcoming'. For years, Pragati Maidan was the centre of Delhi's social life.
Cheerleaders will applaud each six or boundary in their unique way. Bands will play in between overs.Only the venue is different. Instead of the cricket stadium, Indian Premier League enthusiasts can get all this for the price of an admission ticket to a movie hall. Multiplex chains like PVR, Inox Leisure, Cinemax, and Big Cinemas, among others, are negotiating the theatre rights to host at least one IPL match a day during the 45-day tournament starting April 10.
PepsiCo has tie-ups with KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Burger King, and Subway in India, while Coca-Cola has a partnership with McDonald's only
'There will be two to three months of containment, and when there is normalcy, the risk is a relapse and a return to lockdowns.'
Most of India knows Deep Sidhu as the man who planted the Sikh religious flag on Red Fort.
'The blockbusters are unlikely to be launched in 2020.' 'They will move into the 2021 cycle when confidence level among people will be higher.'
The miscreants behind these hoax threats, which even prompted evacuations in hospitals and shopping malls, are yet to be identified. FIRs have been lodged in connection with some of the incidents, according to officials.
After a miserable two years of flopping films and stagnant revenues, what has changed for the film industry?
A neutral Budget for media and entertainment sector.
Given the school break, this is the peak travel season and companies catering to the 'friends and family' segment are expected to gain.
The hit parade of well-made movies continues, ticket sales are creeping up and OTTs are upping the game in one of the best years for the film industry.
Though GST could mean complications in the short run, it will bring in undeclared revenues and streamline taxation across the value chain, the benefits should be worth the pain.
Guess how many screens Happy New Year will be shown in!
Cinema screens bring in over 60% of the Rs 19,100 crore that Indian films earned in 2019. The reception a film gets in theatres impacts the price of every other revenue stream -- TV, OTT, overseas. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar explains why the theatre business is not doomed and why OTT won't become the first window of release.
And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Advance booking and track record peg the film's opening collection at Rs 35 to 40 crore.
Aseem Chhabra imagines a time, 20 years from now, when movie-watching in theatres will be long gone, thanks to the coronavirus, and pens a letter to his grandchild, explaining the magic of the cinema hall.
Amul has cashed in on an incident from the protagonist's life for promotions.
'If we keep losing such institutions, we will soon become a city and culture of short-term memory.' 'Nothing to remind us of the years gone by and eventually with nothing to remember.'
Poor policymaking, a fractious industry and the cockeyed nature of regulations are to blame, saya Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Global cues lift Sensex 364 points; Nifty ends above 8,650.
With founder Subhash Chandra no longer in the driver's seat at Zee, the acid test for Punit Goenka would be to take the financial investors along with him even as he strives to weather the latest storm. The question, now, is how he will deal with the challenges of being a professional CEO rather than an owner-CEO in the aftermath of his family offloading most of its promoter stake to a clutch of financial investors. However, the silver lining is that Zee remains the most profitable of the top four broadcasters in India.
Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us.
The movies that impressed, puzzled and stunned Sukanya Verma at MAMI this year.
Here's how India's most successful film star goes about his work.
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