Originally posted by: Ranbirrocks
The film is not a box office financial disaster like a Broken Horses, Bombay Velvet, Rock On 2 as the profits in the producers book far outweigh the loss of the distributors. The film was made for 61 crore production budget without fee of male lead Salman Khan and 22 promotion and advertising costs. But the huge problem is the expectations from the film and the prices paid by the all India distributors who will loose around 70% of their investments. The prices paid are crazy as this sort of money is a huge risk with any film and not just Tubelight. The film reminds of Mrityudaata (1997) which also fetched record prices and then lost 70% of its investment. That film was a box office disaster as there was no back up from television and digital rights at that time.
@Red - Someone please explain this to me. Isn't Distributor profit a true measure of BO success on BOI?So what if Producers earned money? As long as Distributors lost their investment, movie is a flop.Infact it is criminal that Producers earn profits and leave the Distributors face all risk of business.
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