EDITORIALA shady personality ( associated with Bollywood distribution circles ) have recently been caught red-handed while giving an interview to a leading entertainment site with an intention to slander Krrish 3. His over-enthusiastic comments have publicly exposed the usual box-office scams conducted by Bollywood's distribution circle.
Talking about box office collections and tracking, he proudly revealed that the real box office receipts are never 'accounted' for by corresponding distributors ( specially from single screens ), since distributors themselves 'downsize' the collections to evade their share of entertainment tax. The downsized collections then gets informally leaked to the entire trade ( specially the rival distributors ), who willingly accept them at face value ( since all of them are brothers-in-arm in this tax evasion scam ).
This creates an usual difference between producer totals ( based on ticket sales ) and the so-called 'accepted' distributors figure ( specifically in the rival distribution camps ). This difference magnifies itself, depending upon how well the movie runs at single screens ( and also depends on which distributor camps one refers to ).
For
Krrish 3, this variance has reached higher proportions
( as per some dodgy sources ). Not only has this movie found strong endorsement in the single screens, but the respective distributors are being suspected to
have done a bit too much to avoid entertainment tax. While the entire distributor circle (
as exposed in this interview ) are proud of their usual scams, a section is seemingly unhappy at the higher profit margin for
Krrish 3 distributors and have started pointing fingers at
FilmKraft. The politics of the situation (
LINK) is further responsible for
exaggeration of this variance by certain usual suspects and consequent
vilification of the
Roshans.
While Rakesh Roshan is in a position to track ticket sales from his exhibitors and distributors ( like any other production house ), he is unlikely to expose his distributors for obvious business ethics, which recently disgruntled a leading print media publication.
It is unfortunate that the usual tax evasion scams by Bollywood's shady distribution circle is now being used to defend the Khan propaganda. It is also amusing, to witness how production houses are usually turned into scapegoats by our 'respectable' distributors and portals that claim to be tied up with them. Quite ironical, especially when producers pay their own share of taxes after selling off the territorial distribution rights.
Unless the distribution business is revamped and restructured to ensure accountability, such tax evasion schemes will continue, and propagandists will use it as an excuse to spread their respective agenda.
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