BS@50: Entertainment transformation - from silver screen to smartphones

The most interesting dimension of change in the past 50 years has really been the shrinking size of the entertainment screen

So what has changed in entertainment in India in the last 50 years? Well, 50 years ago, the biggest grossers of Hindi cinema usually sold around 100-150 million tickets: films like Sholay, Mughal-e-Azam and Kismet are believed to have sold over 120 million tickets each. In later years, films like Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and Mard sold 70 million, 50 million and 48 million tickets, respectively. Present-day top grosser Dangal, however, sold only around 37.8 million tickets, and if we consider Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, it grossed around 50 million tickets at the