The so called first week official collection report for the much hyped tamil movie Shankar-Rajinikanth starrer %u2018Sivaji %u2013 The Boss%u2019, purportedly released by AVM sources reads as follows-
Tamilnadu %u2013 30 crores Andhra Pradesh %u2013 7-8 crores Kerala %u2013 4 crores Rest of the world %u2013 13 crores
Total %u2013 55 crores
Let us see the comedy in these figures. The AVM sources claim that it has collected 30 crores in tamilnadu for the first one week. Is this possible? In order to make this possible, one crore people should have watched Sivaji in the first one week at an average ticket rate of 40 rupees so that the gross gets to be 40 crores and the share post taxes and theatre rent gets to be 30 crores (approximately). For the average ticket rate for a theatre to be forty, the maximum ticket price for the theatre should be atleast 60 and the minimum price should be 20 so that it averages out to 40. How many Chennai movie halls have a maximum ticket price of Rs.60? and how many of them have minimum ticket rate of Rs.20? The following is link on Chennai ticket prices %u2013
Chennai ticket prices
Apart from a handful of multiplexes in Chennai, most theatres have to restrict their prices to a maximum of Rs.50. Also note that only a handful of theatres can charge even at a rate of Rs.50. For example, in the link given above, Gopal Das of Maharani theatre, in North Chennai, says that their tickets cost less than what the government has ordered.
