Why is Sonchiriya being ignored? - Page 3

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

problem is India doesn't even have enough cinemas, it is around 8000-8500 now, with Hindi movies having only 5000 or even less.

But the distributors don't want to invest on movies which don't give them good returns in first week, as their share decreases by every week.

Originally posted by: ninny

Yes but this movie never got a chance. It was dead on arrival and wom got affected by that horrible dubbed version. They should have released it at some OTT platform.

Originally posted by: ninny

Yes but this movie never got a chance. It was dead on arrival and wom got affected by that horrible dubbed version. They should have released it at some OTT platform.

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

problem is India doesn't even have enough cinemas, it is around 8000-8500 now, with Hindi movies having only 5000 or even less.

But the distributors don't want to invest on movies which don't give them good returns in first week, as their share decreases by every week.

Originally posted by: shogun

I know what you are trying to say but again the amount of screens is not the issue here. This type of movie in today's time has barely any audience theatrically. There are other elements working here too: severe lack of buzz, the face value of star cast. But the people who wanted to watch this movie, they did. For others, they weren't simply intrigued at all as there were better alternatives.

Moreover, it is a business they are running there. As an exhibitor and distributor, you wanna release movies in your local theatres that would be deemed at least profitable. It's not a charity show to "appreciate" artistic value. There's a different medium for that. This sort of movie was always meant to be on streaming platforms.

Originally posted by: astha36

What type of movie do you think it is? It's a movie like gangs of wasseypur was. And that did well no? And no you haven't got my point still. Maybe people wanted to watch it but to wasn't showing near them. Also, it happens a lot of times that people decide one day before which movie to watch and then choose out of the ones that r showing near them.

I haven't said that there needs to be any charity or that they should appreciate the artistic value of the movie. I think the makers should have pushed for more screens because what do you expect to get out of 700 screens anyway? And again, it's the sort of movie that gow or crime movies generally are. The kind of movie that you're talingt about was probably October. And that must've been released on many more screen than just 700. What was October's collection again?

Originally posted by: astha36

Yeah but even so. 700 is a really low number. I didn't know a movie, even if off beat, with so many known names would get such a low number of screens. I don't know the stats of many movies but mostly the ones I have read here have more than 1500 screens.