It is just a sliver of good news. But it is worth hanging on to. Indians bought 1.03 billion movie tickets in 2019. That is up 9 per cent over 2018 when they bought 945 million tickets, says a recently-released Ormax Media Box Office Report for 2019. The rise is not huge but it is good news for three reasons.
One, because it is arguably the only one so far in what has been a miserable year for India’s Rs 1,67,400-crore media and entertainment industry. A combination of factors — the economic slowdown, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s meddling in television
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