Tubelight Fuses, DJ Rocks

The weekend results of Eid releases are in and while the numbers are on soft at top but it’s the runner up that grab the eyeballs. Salman Khan starrer Tubelight led the charge, well below the studio and trade expectations followed by  Allu Arjun’s Duvvada Jagannadham which is on way to become one of the
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Super Singh on Top but Nothing Super About That

There was no new wide release in gone weekend and so were the box office returns. It was another dull weekend before that big Eid weekend which will start flow of big releases till early October. There was a big Final of ICC Champions Trophy on Sunday which further downed the weekend which already was
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Dangal of the Box Office Baahubalis

In mere 24 days of release in China, Dangal reclaimed its title of world’s biggest Indian film from Baahubali The Conclusion, who held it for a rather short period of 25 days. Once again it’s an Aamir Khan film at top, which is a routine affair now since December 2008 barring two exceptions in form
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The Conclusion is still Baahubali

Baahubali The Conclusion earned first place in weekend for fourth time and likely the last time. It was a close race with Half Girlfriend which had a decent bow. Hindi Medium has a fair weekend  with fine trend. Baahubali The Conclusion grossed ₹46.5cr over its weekend for a 24 days total of ₹1213cr. It took
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Dangal Hits Century In China

A $100mn or ¥680 mn in China for Dangal and what follows is ₹1400 cr worldwide. Till yesterday film grossed $95mn or ¥645mn in middle kingdom. No words can describe the business trend of film in China and this is the time we say it goes unpredictable. Till 2nd weekend a certain degree of correction
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GST and the Indian Cinema

  There’s a change in Indirect taxation in India which involves integrating all the indirect taxes at Central and States level into one Tax namely Goods and Services Tax. Taxation model is new in here but other parts of world followed the same quite earlier. What expected from the new taxation policy was relaxation in
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