India Had Second Biggest Box Office Year Ever In 2022 With $1.28BN, But Admissions Still Down On Pre-Pandemic Levels
deadline.comSouth Indian mega-hits like K.G.F: Chapter 2 and RRR and Disney’s Avatar: The War Of Water helped drive India’s box office to its second biggest year ever in revenue terms in 2022, but the gains are also partly attributed to rising ticket prices as overall admissions are still down on 2019.
Although cinemas were closed in January, India’s total box office revenue reached $1.28BN (Rs106BN) in 2022, according to a report from Ormax Media and GroupM, the second biggest year on record and just a shade off the $1.31BN (Rs109.5BN) achieved in the record-breaking year of 2019.
By contrast, in the first year of the pandemic in 2020, total box office was just $238M (Rs20.6BN) and grew to only $455M (Rs37.7BN) the following year when the Delta variant of Covid-19 hit India.
However, admissions only reached 892M in 2022, compared to 1.03BN in 2019, the highest year on record. Referred to as “footfalls” in the Indian film industry, the admissions figure hadn’t dipped below 900M in the five years leading up to the pandemic.
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