Exhibitors help Telangana cinematography minister Komati Reddy on ticket charges hike
Exhibitors help Telangana cinematography minister Komati Reddy on ticket charges hike. Telangana Cinematography Minister Komati Reddy Venkata Reddy made clear that he’s in opposition to the ticket charges hikes for movies and added that any further producers and filmmakers ought to cease coming to the federal government to hunt ticke charges hikes for his or her movies.
Vijayender Reddy, president of the Telangana Controllers and Exhibitors Affiliation, which represents round 300 exhibitors throughout the state, supported the minister and mentioned “With inflated ticket charges, audiences have stopped coming to theatres, and we’re going by means of very robust occasions,”. He requested the state authorities to repair ticket costs within the vary of Rs 100 to Rs 200, or Rs 75 to Rs 175, for 2 courses, as an alternative of allowing charges of Rs 400 to Rs 600 for big-budget movies.
He revealed “Costs are elevated 4 to 5 occasions, and audiences naturally draw back from theatres. To guard single screens, we even organised a partial bandh a couple of months in the past, as most theatres are operating beneath losses. Some theatres have locked their gates, whereas many are cancelling exhibits on account of poor attendance, generally with fewer than ten viewers.”
He questioned “How can we equate the earnings of a rickshaw puller in a village with that of an IT worker in a metropolis and repair the identical ticket value?” and criticised the sooner authorities for permitting uniform ticket charges throughout gram panchayats, municipalities and municipal companies.
On greater ticket charges rising the collections in theatres, he mentioned “This can be a false impression. We don’t get any additional profit from inflated collections. As an illustration, on regular ticket charges, if a movie collects Rs 45,000 from 4 exhibits, we obtain Rs 15,000 as hire. Even when a movie collects Rs 3 lakh a day on account of hiked costs, we nonetheless get solely Rs 15,000. So the place is the additional cash for theatres?”
He mentioned “We’re left helpless. Theatres in locations like Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Gadwal, Nalgonda, Miryalaguda and Warangal are dealing with completely different sorts of issues,” and revealed “distributors strain theatre house owners by negotiating aggressively and chopping leases to display massive movies.”
