Basic facts
- The Indian film industry is the largest in the world with about 1,500-2,000 films produced every year in 20 languages
- In terms of revenue, it has gross box-office realisations of $2.1 bn
- Expected to grow at 11% CAGR to reach $3.7 bn by 2020
- The industry gross realisations are substantially lower than its global counterparts
- Domestic box office contributes 74% to the industry
- Cable and satellite rights, and online /digital aggregation revenues are fastest-growing segments and expected to grow 15% from 2015 to 2020
- Bollywood contributes 43% of the revenues while the regional & international films contribute 50% and 7%, respectively
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