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Indians bought record number of movie tickets last year at multiplexes

Increasing appetite for good content, fuelled by OTT, and more screens help increase footfall to cinemas

Indians bought record number of movie tickets last year at big multiplexes
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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar New Delhi
Are we seeing a cinematic renaissance of sorts?
 
In the age of cheap data, more than 35 video apps and over 800 television channels, Indians bought a record number of movie tickets in 2018. The reasons? The cheap data and 35 video apps were whetting their appetite and there were good films and more screens showing them.
 
In the financial year ended March 2019 (FY19), the number of tickets sold by the top three multiplex chains in India rose 23 per cent over the previous year to more than 200 million. For many years now the cinema-going habit,